Religious Orientation and Personality: A Case Study
Statistical studies correlate religious orientation and a number of personality variables. This article analyzes the lives of two Revolutionary American aristocrats, John Hancock and Robert Carter, to discover processes that may underlie these correlations, ways that personality variables and religi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1986
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Review of religious research
Year: 1986, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-28 |
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| Summary: | Statistical studies correlate religious orientation and a number of personality variables. This article analyzes the lives of two Revolutionary American aristocrats, John Hancock and Robert Carter, to discover processes that may underlie these correlations, ways that personality variables and religious orientation can be related. Carter exhibited an introverted social style and an intrinsic-committed orientation to religion; Hancock was his extraverted, extrinsic-consensual counterpart. A functional-dispositional model is framed wherein personality traits and religious orientations are related, first, as mutual factors in individual adaptation, and second, as parallel expressions of innate, pervasive personal sensibilities. The implications of the cases for general theory on personality and religious orientation are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511334 |