RT Article
T1 Dogmatism and Committed and Consensual Religiosity
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 12
IS 3
SP 339
OP 344
A1 Raschke, Vernon
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1973
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166800917X
AB This research explores the consistency of cognitive style. It was hypothesized that a "closed" cognitive style would be associated with a consensual type of religiosity and an "open" cognitive style would be associated with a committed type of religiosity. Instruments used to measure the major variables were: Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale and Spilka's Religious Viewpoints Scale. The sample consisted of 264 college students. Factor analysis and multiple regression were employed in the analysis. The findings indicate that the Religious Viewpoints Scale did not differentiate well between committed and consensual types of religiosity, but alpha factor analysis showed that the scale seemed to be measuring these two dimensions of religiosity. "Closed" (as opposed to "open") cognitive style was more positively associated with consensual religiosity than with committed religiosity; this finding was significant at the .001 level.
K1 Cognitive models
K1 Cognitive Style
K1 College students
K1 Dogmatism
K1 Factor analysis
K1 Religiosity
K1 Religious prejudice
K1 Spiritual belief systems
K1 Statistical variance
DO 10.2307/1384433