basic religious beliefs and personality traits.

Basic Religious Beliefs and Personality Traits

OBJECTIVE Spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. The present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (Human, Existence and God) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness. METHOD One hundred seventy eight students of Islamic Az...

Paranormal beliefs, religious beliefs and personality correlates

Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and the belief in the paranormal. Participants (N=307) were students from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The measures used were the IPIP version of the Five Factor Model questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006) along with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 1988). The factor analysis of...

attribution theory and personality traits among efl learners

هدف از این تحقیق یافتن ارتباط بین نحوه نگرش زبان آموزان به موفقیت و شکستشان و نوع شخصیت آنها است. 216 زبان آموز، 111 پسر و 105 دختر، در سطح متوسط که در آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی شکوه مشغول به تحصیل بودند در این پژوهش شرکت کرده اند. شرکت کننده ها دو پرسشنامه neo-ffi و atfll را تکمیل کرده اند. نتیجه نشان داد که: احساسات با توافق پذیری و وظیفه شناسی ارتباط مثبت و با روان نژندی ارتباط منفی دارد. تصور ا...

Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation and Cooperation

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...

Medically valid religious beliefs.

Patient requests for "inappropriate" medical treatment (violations of the standard of care) based on religious beliefs should have special standing. Nevertheless, not all such requests should be honored, because some are morally disturbing. The trouble lies in deciding which ones count. This paper proposes criteria that would qualify a religious belief as medically valid to help physicians deci...