An Investigation of Religion and Spirituality of Sexual Minorities in the United States: Exploring Perceptions, Intrinsic Religiosity, and Outness to Religious Communities
We investigated how sexual minority participants in the United States (N = 217; M age = 36.36 years) viewed organized religion and their relationships with a higher power. In addition, we examined the associations between levels of outness in religious communities, internalized heterosexism (IH), in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2018]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 145-161 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ LGBT
/ Spirituality
/ Religiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion KBQ North America |
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| Summary: | We investigated how sexual minority participants in the United States (N = 217; M age = 36.36 years) viewed organized religion and their relationships with a higher power. In addition, we examined the associations between levels of outness in religious communities, internalized heterosexism (IH), intrinsic religiosity, and depression. Open-ended responses revealed that views of organized religion fell into three categoriesnegative (57.9%), positive (9.1%), and ambivalent (33%)and participants reported a variety of relationships to a higher powerexisting relationship (61.5%), no relationship (19%), fractured relationship (4.6%), and some who felt unsure (10.8%). Participants with greater outness to a religious community reported less IH and higher intrinsic religiosity. Also, outness to a religious community moderated the association between IH and depression, such that there was not a significant association between IH and depression for individuals with low levels of outness. However, at average to high levels of outness, there was a significant association between IH and depression. |
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| Item Description: | In der Druckausgabe ist Volume 28, Numbers 1-4 in einem Heft erschienen |
| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2018.1464858 |