Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world's religions

The International Situations

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104496

Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world's religions

The International Situations

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Abstract

Research assessing personality traits and religiosity across cultures has typically neglected variation across religious affiliations and has been limited to a small number of personality traits. This study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and their facets, two theoretically distinct measures of religiosity, and twelve other personality traits across seven religious affiliations and 61 countries/regions. The proportion of participants following a religion varied substantially across countries (e.g., Indonesia = 99%; Estonia = 7%). Both measures of religiosity were related to agreeableness, conscientiousness, happiness, and fairness; however; relations with religiosity as a social axiom were stronger and less variable across religious affiliations. Additionally, personality-religiosity links were more robust in low-development, high-conflict, and collectivist nations.

Original language	English
Article number	104496
Journal	Journal of Research in Personality
Volume	110
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104496
Publication status	Published - Jun 2024
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Country variation
Personality traits
Religiosity
Religious affiliations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
General Psychology

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