Religious Orthodoxy and Emotionality
The relationship between religious orthodoxy and emotional feeling and expression is examined. Data are from questionnaires administered to a sample of Georgia high school students (N=1092). The principal findings are these: Religious orthodoxy is positively related to self-reported feeling and expr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1978
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Review of religious research
Year: 1978, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 308-319 |
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| Summary: | The relationship between religious orthodoxy and emotional feeling and expression is examined. Data are from questionnaires administered to a sample of Georgia high school students (N=1092). The principal findings are these: Religious orthodoxy is positively related to self-reported feeling and expression of love and happiness, and also to the importance the person attributes to institutionally based socio-emotional values. On the other hand, religious orthodoxy is negatively related to self-reported feeling and expression of hate, and it is unrelated to self-reported feeling and expression of sadness. Taken as a whole, these findings suggest that persons of high religious orthodoxy are more likely than those of low religious orthodoxy to be influenced by biblically based norms encouraging the feeling and expression of approval/positive emotions and discouraging the feeling and expression of rejection/negative emotions. Possible approaches to integrating the present findings into a larger theoretical framework are noted. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510130 |