Authors: Francis L.J.¹; Jackson C.J.²

Source: Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Volume 6, Number 1, 2003 , pp. 87-100(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The Eysenck Personality Profiler was completed by 400 undergraduate students together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data confirm the main conclusion of several previous studies by demonstrating that there is no significant relationship between the personality dimension of neuroticism and religiosity. The analyses go beyond previous studies by examining the relationships between religiosity and the seven component parts of neuroticism separately. These analyses demonstrate a significant positive correlation between religiosity and guilt, a significant negative correlation between religiosity and unhappiness, and no significant correlation between religiosity and low-self esteem, anxiety, dependency, hypochondriasis, or obsessiveness.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Wales, Bangor, UK 2: University of Queensland, Australia

Publication date: 2003-01-01

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