TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissociation and Religiosity
T2 - the role of religious experience
AU - Breslin, Michael J.
AU - Lewis, Christopher Alan
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - Dissociation can be conceptualized as a disruption in integrated processing of psychological information, due to alterations in consciousness. An emerging body of research has examined the relationship between dissociation and religiosity. Mixed findings suggest a weak positive association between these two constructs. The present aim was to investigate if dissociation predicted religious experience over and above a measure of religiosity. A sample of 371 Irish respondents completed the Measure of Prayer Type, the M Scale Short Version, and the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Binary logistic regression showed that religious experience was predicted by dissociation, controlling for frequency of prayer.
AB - Dissociation can be conceptualized as a disruption in integrated processing of psychological information, due to alterations in consciousness. An emerging body of research has examined the relationship between dissociation and religiosity. Mixed findings suggest a weak positive association between these two constructs. The present aim was to investigate if dissociation predicted religious experience over and above a measure of religiosity. A sample of 371 Irish respondents completed the Measure of Prayer Type, the M Scale Short Version, and the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Binary logistic regression showed that religious experience was predicted by dissociation, controlling for frequency of prayer.
KW - dissociation
KW - prayer
KW - religiosity
KW - religious experience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922358543&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19349637.2015.957606
DO - 10.1080/19349637.2015.957606
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84922358543
SN - 1934-9637
VL - 17
SP - 26
EP - 33
JO - Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
JF - Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
IS - 1
ER -