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Creation Date
Spring 2016
Major
Psychology
Department
Psychology
Degree
Undergraduate
Mentor
Jonathan S. Gore
Mentor Department
Psychology
Abstract
People adopt a variety of approaches to practice their religion, but there has been no examination as to how proximal versus distal ingroup identification may explain the different religious orientations. Two studies tested the hypotheses that 1) intrinsic religious orientation would be predicted by all three levels of ingroup identification (community, country and all humanity), 2) extrinsic religious orientation would be predicted by community-level identification only, 3) quest religious orientation would be predicted by humanity-level identification only, and 4) orthodox religious orientation would be predicted by community- and country-level identification only. Study 2 controlled for several individual difference variables. In both studies, participants (n = 285 for Study 1, n = 507 for Study 2) completed online surveys. The results across both studies showed that identifying with community predicted orthodox and intrinsic orientations, and identifying with all humanity predicted quest and intrinsic orientations. Implications for research on religion and outgroup prejudice are discussed.
