Original scientific paper

Analysis of Relation between Religiosity and Personality Traits

Zlatko Šram ; Institute of Theological Cathechesis of the Diocesis of Subotica

Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out the latent
configurations of the religiositv dimensions and personalitv traits
under the impact of sociodemographics: gender, age, occupation,
and nationality. The sample encompassed 583 fullaged examinees.
Factor analvsis yielded the dimensions of religiositv labeled religious
beliefs, sacramental life, christian love tovvard the neighbour, and
religious experience.As a one-factor dimensions are extracted the
following personality traits: anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, and
need for power. Canonical discriminant analvsis was performed in
order to measure the impact of sociodemographics on the latent
configurations of variables of religiositv and personalitv traits. The
results showed the existence of (1) anxious pseudoreligious
sentiment characteristic for older generations, (2) anxiousdepressive
pseudoreligious sentiment characteristic for pensioners and housewives, (3) psychotic pseudoreligious sentiment
characteristic for a portion of Serbian and Hungarian subsamples,
(4) anxious semireligiosity characteristic for females, (5) arođous
intrinsic religiosity characteristic for the youngest and older
subsamples, and (6) depressive intrinsic religiosity characteristic for
Croatian and Hungarian subsamples.

Keywords

religiosity; personality; anxiety; depression; aggressiveness; sociopathy

Hrčak ID:

38859

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38859

Publication date:

19.9.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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