Religious Orientation, Humanistic Values, and Narcissism
This study empirically examined some issues within the debate between religious and humanistic theorists concerning the role of self in life. Predictions by religious theorists that humanistic values are associated with narcissism and by humanists that religious values are incompatible with self-act...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1984
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Review of religious research
Year: 1984, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-264 |
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| Summary: | This study empirically examined some issues within the debate between religious and humanistic theorists concerning the role of self in life. Predictions by religious theorists that humanistic values are associated with narcissism and by humanists that religious values are incompatible with self-actualization were examined in two correlational studies. No relationship was observed between narcissism and humanistic values as measured with the Time Competence (TC) or Inner Support (IS) subscales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. However, the intrinsic, but not the extrinsic, religious orientation of Allport and Ross was inversely related to narcissism. In addition, intrinsicness correlated positively and extrinsicness negatively with TC. Intrinsics and the indiscriminately antireligious were similar in average and extreme levels of self-actualization, and these two groups appeared more actualized than the extrinsics and the indiscriminately proreligious. The greatest differences across the religious and humanistic perspectives therefore may be between the humanist position and the extrinsic and indiscriminately proreligious positions. Intrinsics may share some characteristics with the indiscriminately antireligious, but important differences with regard to narcissism may remain. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511123 |