Religious Orientation and Personality: A Case Study

Statistical studies correlate religious orientation and a number of personality variables. This article analyzes the lives of two Revolutionary American aristocrats, John Hancock and Robert Carter, to discover processes that may underlie these correlations, ways that personality variables and religi...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kwilecki, Susan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer 1986
In: Review of religious research
Jahr: 1986, Band: 28, Heft: 1, Seiten: 16-28
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Zusammenfassung:Statistical studies correlate religious orientation and a number of personality variables. This article analyzes the lives of two Revolutionary American aristocrats, John Hancock and Robert Carter, to discover processes that may underlie these correlations, ways that personality variables and religious orientation can be related. Carter exhibited an introverted social style and an intrinsic-committed orientation to religion; Hancock was his extraverted, extrinsic-consensual counterpart. A functional-dispositional model is framed wherein personality traits and religious orientations are related, first, as mutual factors in individual adaptation, and second, as parallel expressions of innate, pervasive personal sensibilities. The implications of the cases for general theory on personality and religious orientation are discussed.
ISSN:2211-4866
Enthält:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3511334