Naslov
How Could Anyone Believe That? Personality Traits and Thinking Dispositions as Predictors of Religious Attitutes.

Autori
Mikloušić, Igor ; Mlačić, Boris ; Milas, Goran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
16th European Conference on Personality Psychology, Book of Abstracts / Di Blas, Lisa ; Carnaghi, Andrea ; Ferrante, Donatella ; Piccoli, Valentina - Trst : EAPP, 2012, 248-248

Skup
16th European Conference on Personality Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Trst, Italija, 10.07.2012. - 14.07.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Big Five; Religiosity; Thinking Dispositions; Personality

Sažetak
In the light of the misunderstanding between the religious and the non-religious, as well as misconceptions about the origins of the religious beliefs, our study aimed to examine the predictive value of personality and thinking dispositions in determining religious orientation. By applying the Post-Critical Belief Scale (Duriez, Fontaine & Hutsebaut, 2000) on a Croatian student population (N=307) we extracted three distinct dimensions of religious belief – Religiosity, Skepticism and Orthodoxy. Thinking dispositions, assessed by the Actively Open-Minded Thinking Scale (Stanovich & West, 2007) and the Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo et al., 1996), proved to be useful in discriminating between the Skeptical non-believers and both the Orthodox and the more open Religious believers. However, the personality dimension of Openness was shown to be the most reliable predictor of Skepticism. Furthermore, Agreeableness was a relevant predictor of Religiosity, whereas Conscientiousness contributed significantly to predicting Orthodoxy.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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