RT Article
T1 Reformatorian Youth in the Netherlands: Religiosity and Personality Traits
JF Journal of empirical theology
VO 37
IS 1
SP 52
OP 70
A1 Bruin, Ria De
A1 Pieper, Joseph
A1 Uden, Marinus Van
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1886266751
AB In this article, the relationship between Dutch Reformatorian youth’ religious characteristics and their personality traits (measured with the Big Five) is at the centre. It is based on research in which 1568 Reformatorian youth participated, who had enrolled as first-year students in a Reformatorian Vocational Training College. These prospective students have filled in a standard assessment questionnaire, which included the Big Five personality questionnaire; to this, the researchers had added an extra questionnaire regarding their religious characteristics. The conclusions from this study are that among these students a limited number of indications was found for a relationship between religious characteristics and the Big Five personality traits (FFM). By and large, moderate, positive relationships were shown between variables of the Religion List and the personality traits of openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness, whereas there were no relationships between religious variables and emotional stability and small relationships between religious variables and extraversion. Rather than orthodox religious views, it was the salience of faith (being intrinsically religious and using religion as a coping strategy) that showed relationships with the personality traits.
K1 Personality traits
K1 Religious Coping
K1 Reformatorian youth
K1 Intrinsic religiosity
K1 religious orthodox thinking
DO 10.1163/15709256-20240005