How are the Big Two personality dimensions of agency (e.g., competence, uniqueness, ambition) and communion (e.g., warmth, relatedness, morality) related to religiosity? A standard view assumes that communion encourages religiosity, whereas agency is independent of religiosity. Our model is more nuanced, taking into account the Big Two’s motivational base as well as culture: Because communal in...

This study examined the relationship between self-deception and religiosity in two different samples: (1) fifty members of a non-denominational church, and (2) 54 students at a state university. The participants responded to Allport and Ross (1967) Religious Orientation Scale and the Paulhus (1984, 1998) Deception Scale. The results indicated that the nature of the relationship depends upon at ...

religion is one of the most important factors which shape the values and beliefs of many people in different societies, and has indisputable effects on human behavior. these effects are present in organizational work environments, as well. in this paper, direct and indirect effects of religiosity on one of the most important dimensions of organizational behavior, namely organizational citizensh...

making capital and investment is the main driving forces of economic development. based on the investment sensitivity to the changes of some of macro-economic variables and risk and uncertainty, the present study evaluated the effective factors on investment in private sector in iran during 1980-2007. at first, the uncertainty variables of real informal exchange rate, nominal interest rate and ...

Many studies have found inverse correlations between intelligence and religiosity, intelligence and political conservatism, and intelligence and political extremism. Other studies have found that academics tend to be significantly less religious and more liberal than the general population. In this article, we argue that interdisciplinary differences in religiosity and political perspective amo...

There is extensive empirical evidence that religion and spirituality are strongly linked with psychological wellbeing; however limited evidence exists for a sample of Muslim Asians. The present study investigated whether spirituality and religiosity are predictors of psychological wellbeing in residents of old homes. It was hypothesized that psychological wellbeing is predicted by spirituality ...

BACKGROUND Many religions underline the value of merciful acts, especially the care of the sick. The aim of the survey was to verify the hypothesis that a higher religiosity correlates with a more desirable ethical attitude towards patients. METHOD An anonymous questionnaire consisting of standardized tools: Scale of Attitudes towards the Patient (SAtP) (four dimensions: respect for autonomy,...

BACKGROUND The objective of this paper is to explore the connection between self-reported health and religiosity among Israeli Jews, using several self-reported health measures. METHODS Data were collected by two health surveys covering 1999 individuals in 1993 and 2505 individuals in 2000, representing the population of Jewish Israelis aged 45-75 years residing in urban communities in those ...