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Personality and Religion Among Music Students

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A sample of 422 students attending courses in eleven departments or colleges of music completed the short form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity and measures of prayer and church attendance. In comparison with the population norms, both male and female music students recorded significantly higher scores on the extraversion scale and significantly lower scores on the psychoticism scale. The data confirm that psychoticism is the dimension of personality fundamental to individual differences in religiosity.

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    Rosamund Bourke (Research Associate)

  2. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    Leslie J. Francis (Professor of Practical Theology)

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Bourke, R., Francis, L.J. Personality and Religion Among Music Students. Pastoral Psychology 48, 437–444 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021384303477

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