Eysenck's dimensional model of personality and religion: are religious people more neurotic?
Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 6(1), 87–100
Summary
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.
Abstract as published in Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
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APA
Francis, L. J., & Jackson, C. J. (2003). Eysenck's dimensional model of personality and religion: are religious people more neurotic?. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 6(1), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/1367467031000086279
BibTeX
@article{francis2003eysencks,
title = {{Eysenck's dimensional model of personality and religion: are religious people more neurotic?}},
author = {L. J. Francis and C. J. Jackson},
journal = {Mental Health, Religion and Culture},
year = {2003},
volume = {6},
number = {1},
pages = {87--100},
doi = {10.1080/1367467031000086279}
}