In a meta-analysis, the authors test the theoretical formulation that religiosity is a means for self-enhancement. The authors operationalized self-enhancement as socially desirable responding (SDR) and focused on three facets of religiosity: intrinsic, extrinsic, and religion-as-quest. Importantly, they assessed two moderators of the relation between SDR and religiosity. Macrolevel culture ref...

ever since the rise of christianity, the bible has played a key role in the christian religiosity. it was a guide to faith, a supreme source of belief and morals, the standard of christian orthodoxy, and a means of combating heresies; for a great majority of christians, it continues to enjoy the same position. after the renaissance, the biblical studies, in terms of authorship, style of writing...

the purpose of the present study was to develop and estimate the psychometric properties of the faith in marital life scale as an instrument for evaluation of religious attitudes toward marital relationship. to this end, a sample of 243 students together with their spouses was selected using the cluster random sampling method from among the students of universities in tehran province. the data ...

This paper is a study on the concept of religiosity and national identity among the 598 young people in Baneh and Qurveh (Western cities in Iran) by a questionnaire. This survey method shows that the rate of religiosity based on Klark and Stark scale and a nation identity have significant relationship with different aspect. The independent variables of the research totally explain 41 percent of...

Although religion has been viewed as playing an important role in the maintenance of moral order, the most recent analysis of variation in homicide rates among nations argues that homicide is facilitated by high levels of religiosity (Paul). That analysis, however, was based on scatter-plots for eighteen “prosperous nations” and focused primarily on the United States compared to “secular” natio...

Religiosity can influence sexual satisfaction both positively and negatively. To test positive negative mechanisms, we assessed how religiosity is indirectly associated with through sanctification inhibited passion. We sampled individuals from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (N = 1,695, Study 1) mixed-sex dyads Bovitz Inc. 481 dyads, 2). consistently had a indirect association sanctification; little e...

Three studies (N = 1,389) investigate how attitudes toward the environment and climate change may be informed by stewardship beliefs (care for Earth as a sacred religious duty) or dominion (God-given dominance over nature). Pro-environmental measures were positively associated with belief negatively belief, moderated religiosity (Study 1). When participants read passages from Bible supporting s...

We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behavior in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behavior, 1995), which we also extend by providing information of a potential trustee’s religiosity in certain tasks. We find...

tolerance is among the issues about which very little experimental research has been conducted in the iranian society. in this study, based on a sample of 335 students, the relationship between degrees and types of religiosity with social tolerance has been examined. the results show that the more religious a person is, the less tolerance they show towards sexual issues, crime and relationship ...