RT Article
T1 Intrinsic Religious Orientation: The Conservative Christian Connection
JF The international journal for the psychology of religion
VO 20
IS 3
SP 201
OP 218
A1 Ghorpade, Jai
A1 Lackritz, James R.
A1 Moore, Rebecca 1951-
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1846854857
AB This study investigated the claim that intrinsic religious orientation (IRO), as developed by Gordon Allport, has an inherent conservative Christian bias that may be denominationally identified. We tested this claim in two ways by using a sample of 546 churchgoers drawn from five congregations representing four denominations (two Unitarian Universalist, two Mainline Protestant, and one Evangelical). First, we correlated IRO scores with a measure of conservative Christian beliefs (CCBs). A high, significant correlation was obtained suggesting that, in general, high IRO scores go with CCBs. Second, we divided the sample into two groups: those who scored high and those who scored low on four measures of religious commitment: participation in church activities, and frequency of attendance, prayers, and meditation. This comparison also confirmed the IRO and conservative Christian connection: the IRO scores of the Evangelical congregation were significantly higher than those of other congregations in both the high and low religious commitment groups. But judgment needs to be reserved about the low commitment group as the number of Evangelicals that fell in this category was very small for two of the four commitment measures: church attendance and prayers.
DO 10.1080/10508619.2010.481230