TY - JOUR
T1 - Religiosity
T2 - psychoticism and obsessionality in Northern Irish university students
AU - Lewis, Christopher Alan
AU - Joseph, Stephen
PY - 1994/11
Y1 - 1994/11
N2 - The aim of the present study was to replicate previous work which has examined the relationship between personality and religiosity in college students. One-hundred and fifty Northern Irish students completed the Francis Scale of Attitudes Towards Christianity, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), and Kline's measure of anal-obsessional personality traits (Ai3). As predicted, higher scores on the Francis scale were associated with lower scores on psychoticism and higher scores on obsessionality. It is suggested that obsessional personality can be understood as a facet of a broader psychoticism dimension and that this provides a more secure base for theoretical predictions on the personality correlates of religiosity.
AB - The aim of the present study was to replicate previous work which has examined the relationship between personality and religiosity in college students. One-hundred and fifty Northern Irish students completed the Francis Scale of Attitudes Towards Christianity, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), and Kline's measure of anal-obsessional personality traits (Ai3). As predicted, higher scores on the Francis scale were associated with lower scores on psychoticism and higher scores on obsessionality. It is suggested that obsessional personality can be understood as a facet of a broader psychoticism dimension and that this provides a more secure base for theoretical predictions on the personality correlates of religiosity.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0000534137&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0191-8869(94)90142-2
DO - 10.1016/0191-8869(94)90142-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000534137
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 17
SP - 685
EP - 687
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 5
ER -