A Components Analysis of One’s Image of God
Research on Image of God (IOG) has shown it to be related to a wide array of outcomes, including images of parents, rearing environment, and religious affiliation. The purpose of this study was to determine the overall and unique contributions of a variety of psychosocial domains to the prediction o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2002
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 13, Pages: 109-123 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Research on Image of God (IOG) has shown it to be related to a wide array of outcomes, including images of parents, rearing environment, and religious affiliation. The purpose of this study was to determine the overall and unique contributions of a variety of psychosocial domains to the prediction of one’s IOG. A sample of 138 women and 68 men, both graduate and undergraduate volunteers, completed measures of self personality, spirituality, religious behavior, and family environment, and provided ratings of both parents. Canonical correlation analyses showed all these variables to have significant contributions to IOG, although the unique contribution of these variables (their degree of relatedness when the effects of the other classes of predictors were partialed out) varied as a function of gender. It was concluded that IOG represents an important psycho-theological construct and future research needs to examine how it may causally impact other psychologically salient outcomes. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004496347_008 |