Church Tradition and Psychological Type Preferences among Anglicans in England

A sample of 290 individuals attending Evangelical Anglican churches and Anglo-Catholic churches in central England completed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a measure of psychological type preferences. Overall, there were clear preferences for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and f...

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Published in:Journal of Anglican studies
Authors: Village, Andrew (Author) ; Francis, Leslie J. (Author) ; Craig, Charlotte (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2009
In: Journal of Anglican studies
Further subjects:B psychological type
B Evangelical Anglican
B Churchgoers
B Anglo-catholic
B churchmanship
B Keirsey Temperament Sorter
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Summary:A sample of 290 individuals attending Evangelical Anglican churches and Anglo-Catholic churches in central England completed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a measure of psychological type preferences. Overall, there were clear preferences for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving, which is consistent with the findings of two earlier studies profiling the psychological type of Anglican churchgoers. However, there was also a significantly higher proportion of intuitives among Anglo-Catholics than among Evangelical Anglicans, which is consistent with the greater emphasis in Anglo-Catholic churches on mystery, awe, and the centrality of sacraments in worship which may resonate with the intuitive predisposition. The implications of these findings are discussed for the benefits of breadth and diversity within Anglicanism.
ISSN:1745-5278
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1740355309000187