Gifts Differing? Psychological Type Among Stipendiary And Non-Stipendiary Anglican Clergy
This paper tests the idea that clergy in different kinds of ministry have different psychological profiles that relate to the kinds of jobs they may be required to do. Psychological type preferences of 529 male and 518 female clergy ordained in the Anglican Church in the United Kingdom from 2004 to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 22, Pages: 230-250 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social sciences
B Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This paper tests the idea that clergy in different kinds of ministry have different psychological profiles that relate to the kinds of jobs they may be required to do. Psychological type preferences of 529 male and 518 female clergy ordained in the Anglican Church in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2007 were assessed using the Francis Psychological Type Scales. Overall, clergy showed a preference for introversion over extraversion, feeling over thinking, and judging over perceiving, but they showed no preference between sensing and intuition. After allowing for differences between the sexes and between clergy of different church tradition, theological orientation, and charismatic practice, there were significant differences in the psychological profiles of stipendiary ministers (SMs), Non-Stipendiary Ministers (NSMs), and Ordained Local Ministers (OLMs). SMs showed a stronger preference for intuition than NSMs or OLMs, while OLMs showed a stronger preference for feeling than SMs or NSMs. Implications of these findings for the changing nature of Anglican ministry are discussed. |
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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.9789004207271.i-360.49 |