Religion and the five factors of personality: a meta-analytic review

By V. Saroglou. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality Profiles and the “Russian Soul”: Literary and Scholarly Views Evaluated (2011, background): “N = Neuroticism; E = Extraversion; O = Openness; A = Agreeableness; C = Conscientiousness.”
Beyond dogmatism: The need for closure as related to religion (2002, background): “When studies use measures of religiosity per se, religiosity is either negatively related or unrelated to openness, but when studies use recent spirituality measures the association with openness is positive (Saroglou, 2002b, for a review).”
Prosocial Behavior and Religion: New Evidence Based on Projective Measures and Peer Ratings (2005, background): “Religious moral standards strongly condemn aggression, be it physical, verbal, or even “mental”—in early Christian spirituality, for instance, judging someone else negatively was considered similar to killing (Saroglou 2001).”
Religion's role in prosocial behavior: Myth or reality? (2006, background): “For instance, the high agreeableness of religious people seems constant across countries, religions, and even cohorts (McCullough et al., 2003; Saroglou, 2002, in press), and the importance of the value of benevolence among religious people is typical of Jewish, Christian, Muslim (Saroglou et al.,…”
Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “Spirituality, but not traditional religiousness, is systematically related to openness to experience (Piedmont, 2005; Saroglou, 2002b; Saucier & Skrzypińska, 2006).”
The Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale: cross-cultural application, validity evidence, and relationship with religious orientation and the Big 5 factor markers1 (2010, methodology): “On the other hand, this inconsistency using the NEO-PI has been documented in other studies (Saroglou, 2002b): Fundamentalism has been found both negatively related and unrelated to Openness.”
Nonconscious influences of religion on prosociality: A priming study (2007, unknown): “Potvin, R. H. (1977).”
Birth order, personality, and religion: A study among young adults from a three-sibling family (2003, background): “…lack of association between religiosity and Neuroticism, are in line with previous studies on religious personality from the Big Five perspective (Saroglou, 2002, for a review) and from the Eysenck three-dimension perspective (low Psychoticism being typical of religion: Eysenck, 1998; Saroglou &…”
The six types of nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative (2014, result): “Thus, these correlational data are consistent with other empirical studies indicating little power for personality measures to predict either religion or personality (Saroglou, 2002).”
Spirituality with and without Religion—Differential Relationships with Personality (2012, background): “In a first meta-analysis, Saroglou (2002) found intrinsic religiosity to be related to Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.”