Religion, Psychological Well-Being, And Personality: A Study Among Undergraduate Students In Canada
The aim of this study was to clarify the association between religion and psychologicalwell-being after controlling for individual differences in personality. Data were provided by a sample of 507 undergraduate students in Canada who completed three instruments: the short-form Francis Scale of Attit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 19, Pages: 1–41 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | The aim of this study was to clarify the association between religion and psychologicalwell-being after controlling for individual differences in personality. Data were provided by a sample of 507 undergraduate students in Canada who completed three instruments: the short-form Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis, Lewis, Philipchalk, Lester, & Brown, 1995), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985) and the five-factor model short form of the NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1989). These data demonstrated that, when personality was taken into account, an apparent (small but significant) association between religion and psychological well-being vanished. These findings are interpreted against the background of previous studies employing the same index of religiosity alongside various measures of psychological well-being. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004166462.i-299.7 |