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The Religious Orientation Scale: Review and Meta-Analysis of Social Desirability Effects:
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In this article, the reliability and validity of scores on the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) were reviewed with respect to social desirability, and the validity of these scores was evaluated.Abstract:
Reliability and validity of scores on the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) are reviewed with respect to social desirability. ROS measures intrinsic religiousness (I; religion as an end unto itself...read more
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Religiousness and depression: evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events.
TL;DR: The association between religiousness and depressive symptoms was examined with meta-analytic methods across 147 independent investigations, indicating that greater religiousness is mildly associated with fewer symptoms.
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The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality
Ara Norenzayan,Azim F. Shariff +1 more
TL;DR: Converging evidence from various fields for religious prosociality is synthesized, address its specific boundary conditions, and point to unresolved questions and novel predictions.
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An item selection procedure to maximise scale reliability and validity
TL;DR: In this article, the internal validity of the conclusions reached in such research directly depends on the reliability (e.g., internal consistency) and the validity of questionnaires or scales used.
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The evolution of misbelief.
Ryan McKay,Daniel C. Dennett +1 more
TL;DR: A range of potential candidates for evolved misbelief are explored, and it is concluded that, of those surveyed, only positive illusions meet the criteria.
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Religion and the Forgiving Personality
TL;DR: The links between forgiveness and religion are explored by surveying how they are linked in the major monotheistic world religions, and how they appear to be linked empirically.
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Meta-analytic procedures for social research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define research results, retrieve and assess research results and compare and combine research results to combine probabilities, and evaluate meta-analytic procedures and meta-Analytic results.
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Personal religious orientation and prejudice.
TL;DR: With the aid of a scale to measure extrinsic and intrinsic orientation this research confirmed previous findings and added a 4th: people who are indiscriminately proreligious are the most prejudiced of all.
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Intrinsic/extrinsic measurement: I/E-Revised and single-item scales.
TL;DR: In this paper, confirmatory multiple group factor analyses confirmed this suspicion, identifying extrinsic items concerned with social relationships ("Es") and with personal benefits ("Ep") and resulted in a revised intrinsic scale which is now partially counterbalanced for acquiescence, an Es scale, an Ep scale, and three single items which may also be used for measuring these constructs.
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Intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness: Review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: A meta-analytic review of the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness was conducted by Donahue et al. as mentioned in this paper, who found that the intrinsic religiousness tends to be positively correlated with negatively evaluated characteristics, and negatively correlated with measures of religious belief and commitment.