Title:
Spiritual transcendence, religious orientation, and personality's relation to moral reasoning
Author:
Christina Katherine DeStefano
Thesis Advisor:
Martin F. Sherman
Committee Member:
Ralph Piedmont
Committee Member:
Carolyn Barry
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2004
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
The Five Factor Model of personality (FFM) has been shown to insufficiently represent spiritual aspects of personality. Spiritual transcendence was designed to assess spiritual aspects of personality (Piedmont, 1999, 2001). The current study was designed to show that the spiritual transcendence factors, prayer fulfillment, universality, and connectedness, and intrinsic religious orientation would have a positive relation to moral reasoning and would explain variance in moral reasoning beyond the dimensions of the FFM. The study population (N= 196) was mainly white (88.0%), Protestant (65.9%), female (61.0%), ages 20-39 (47.3%), working in administration (14.0%), and only high school educated (44.0%). In support of the hypotheses results revealed that agreeableness, prayer fulfillment, universality, and intrinsic religious orientation positively correlated with moral reasoning, and openness negatively correlated with moral reasoning. Additionally, as hypothesized results showed that both spiritual transcendence, specifically prayer fulfillment, and intrinsic religious orientation explained variance beyond the variance explained by the five personality factors. Religious orientation added explained variance for moral reasoning beyond both personality and spiritual transcendence. These results further evidence the importance of spirituality in the study of psychology and suggest that spirituality does provide information about psychologically salient outcomes that the typical personality variables do not provide.
Degree:
Master of Arts
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
DeStefanoCK-04
