Reflective minds and open hearts: cognitive style and personality predict religiosity and spiritual thinking in a community sample
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Article Title | Reflective minds and open hearts: cognitive style and personality predict religiosity and spiritual thinking in a community sample |
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ERA Journal ID | 6258 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Browne, Matthew (Author), Pennycook, Gordan (Author), Goodwin, Belinda (Author) and McHenry, Melinda (Author) |
Journal Title | European Journal of Social Psychology |
Journal Citation | 44 (7), pp. 736-742 |
Number of Pages | 7 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0046-2772 |
1099-0992 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2059 |
Web Address (URL) | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2059/abstract;jsessionid=D01EBECD6FE17304C62B9833554FD453.f02t01?systemMessage=Due+to+essential+maintenance+the+subscribe%2Frenew+pages+will+be+unavailable+on+Wednesday+26+October+between+02%3A00+-+08%3A00+B |
Abstract | We examined associations between two psychological constructs, analytic cognitive style and the personality facet ‘Openness to Experience’, and several dimensions of religiosity: religious affiliation, strength of faith and spiritual epistemology. In a relatively large (N = 1093), older community sample (M = 55.4 years), analytic cognitive style was associated with a lower probability of affiliating with a religious denomination and a higher probability of possessing strong religious faith. Overall, openness was also associated with a lack of religious affiliation but was positively related to possessing a spiritual epistemology. A path-analytic model revealed that openness had a positive relationship to both faith and religious denomination that was mediated by spiritual epistemology, but negative direct relationships with religiosity after the meditational effects were taken into account. Taken together, these results extend previous findings on the effect of cognitive style on religiosity and provide a new perspective on the complex relationship between cognitive and personality factors and different dimensions of religiosity. |
Keywords | religiosity; spirituality; cognitive style; personality |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520504. Psychology of religion |
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Byline Affiliations | Central Queensland University |
University of Waterloo, Canada | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3q11/reflective-minds-and-open-hearts-cognitive-style-and-personality-predict-religiosity-and-spiritual-thinking-in-a-community-sample
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