Religion, Religiosity, and Attribution of Responsibility
Both religion and attribution theory in social psychology provide explanations for outcomes in individuals lives. Thus, attributional style, the tendency to make external versus internal attributions, may reflect both religious denominational cultures and religiosity. We examine these two propositio...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2002
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Both religion and attribution theory in social psychology provide explanations for outcomes in individuals lives. Thus, attributional style, the tendency to make external versus internal attributions, may reflect both religious denominational cultures and religiosity. We examine these two proposition for student samples of Catholics, mainline Protestants, and Mormons. Attributions for both positive and negative events are examined. Hypothetical vignettes are used to measure attributions independently of religious "contexts" and then relate them to measures of religiosity. The data revealed a weak relationship between the measures of religiosity and the attributional variables. The Protestants and Mormon samples were no different in the attributions they made to the hypothetical events. The Catholic sample, however, was somewhat more likely than the other two groups to attribute both success and failure to external factors |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004496200_008 |