Trait anxiety and measures of religiosity in four cultural settings

Several measures of religious practice and religious orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic/quest) and the trait form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were employed in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural environments: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, and...

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Published in:Mental health, religion & culture
Authors: Lavrič, Miran (Author) ; Flere, Sergej (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2010
In: Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 13, Issue: 7/8, Pages: 667-682
Further subjects:B Religious Orientation
B Trait Anxiety
B cross cultural
B Religious Practice
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Summary:Several measures of religious practice and religious orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic/quest) and the trait form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were employed in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural environments: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, and the USA. The results suggest that (1) the relationship between trait anxiety and religiosity substantially varies between these samples; (2) the relationship between quest religious orientation and trait anxiety was the only one to give stable (positive) unidirectional and significant correlations across the four samples; and (3) among the religious measures employed, attendance at religious services proved to be potentially the most effective anxiety-buffering mechanism within the samples.
ISSN:1469-9737
Contains:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674670701414961