Validation of the Interreligious Forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale in Taiwan: Perspectives from Selected University Students

Castillo, Fides del; Edara, Inna Reddy; Ching, Gregory S.; Castillo, Clarence Darro del

doi:10.3390/rel12020077

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“…Table 6 shows various mean scores of the subscales, wherein ANOVA results showed that participants with Asian and Christian religious affiliations scored significantly higher than their atheist counterparts. This finding is in line with the previous findings of del Castillo et al [ 48 ] (p. 11). In addition, independent sampled t -tests were also conducted to determine if there were gender differences within the EtG emotions and CRSi subscales.…”

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Religiosity, Emotions, Resilience, and Wellness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Taiwanese University Students

Edara

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Ching

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One hard fact of COVID-19 is the uncertainty of all things. Anchoring on the assumption that the religiosity of an individual has a profound impact on their emotions, resilience, and wellness, this study investigated the levels of the centrality of religiosity, emotions towards God, resilience, and wellness among 399 Taiwanese university students. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, factor analysis, group comparisons, multiple regression, and mediation analysis. Findings showed that most of the participants were religious. Furthermore, the 16 emotions towards God were successfully factored into three distinct sub-groups, namely: pleasant, unpleasant, and moral valence, which were later found to be quite related to Asian religions. More importantly, the results suggested that the resiliency of an individual can be attributed to their belief in the existence of God or the Divine, while the wellness indicators of security and satisfaction were related to one’s religiosity. Lastly, structural equation modeling showed that resilience fully mediated the relationship between the ideology dimension of religiosity and the security and satisfaction component of wellness. In addition to discussing these significant results, this paper also included some implications of the study results, particularly the importance of religiosity and emotions toward God or the Divine in sustaining resilience and promoting wellness, especially in the context of crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…More specifically, this study used the translated version of the interreligious CRS (CRSi) validated by del Castillo et al [ 48 ]. Within their study, the 14-item CRSi was validated and considered as an appropriate scale in measuring religiosity within a Taiwanese university context.…”

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Religiosity, Emotions, Resilience, and Wellness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Taiwanese University Students

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“…In New Zealand, most people that report to be religious are Christian; however, almost half of New Zealanders stated that they have no religion (Van Tongeren et al, 2021). Taiwan has a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, mainly pertaining to the ancient Chinese culture and religion; in spite of this, the Taiwanese people practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian perspective (Chinese folk religion) (del Castillo et al, 2021). Thailand has one of the highest percentages of Buddhists in the world (95% of the population) (Jeamjitvibool et al, 2022).…”

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Religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across countries and world regions

Leite

Nobre

Dias

2023

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure and measurement invariance of the religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across cultures in six world regions (Asia, non-Western Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, and Western Europe) and across Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic regions (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD world regions. Confirmatory factory analysis examined whether the hypothesized measurement model fits the data; several multi-group confirmatory factor analyses were performed to examine measurement invariance through a progressive analytic strategy involving three invariance conditions of configural, metric, and scalar invariance. The results generally supported the adequate fit to the data of the three correlated factors model (religious identity-RII, religious practice-RPI, and religious beliefs—RBI); it was found to be full metric invariance for WEIRD regions (RII), North America (RII and RBI), Western Europe (RII) and Non-Western Europe (RII), and South America (RII and RBI). Finally, for RII, it was found to be full configural invariance in almost all regions, except North America and Oceania; for RPI, it was found to be full configural only in North America and Non-WEIRD regions; and for RBI, it was found to be full configural only in North America, Asia, and South America, being that women scored significantly higher than men in all three indices all over the world; finally, it was found to be configural, but not metric or scalar invariance across WEIRD and non-WEIRD world regions.

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Obsessive-compulsive severity, gender, and religiosity as predictors of personality trait scores

Muller,

Zaboski,

Joyce-Beaulieu

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Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) impacts 1%—4% of the United States population. Scrupulosity, or obsessions related to morality and religion, is the fifth most common obsession. Although clinicians and researchers may have ample assessment information about their clients, such as OCD severity, gender, and religious background, little research in the field has shown how these variables relate to personality factors. Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we recruited 230 participants to (a) determine if scrupulosity were predictive of openness and neuroticism while accounting for gender, OCD severity, and religiosity; (b) investigate whether religious identity interacted with scrupulosity when predicting openness and neuroticism; and (c) examine if gender identity contributed to openness and neuroticism. Using linear mixed models, we found that higher scrupulosity predicted lower levels of openness across all religious groups, and that higher scrupulosity was associated with higher negative emotionality for nonreligious individuals. Implications for practice and continued research are discussed.

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Validation of the Interreligious Forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale in Taiwan: Perspectives from Selected University Students

Cited by 3 publications

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Religiosity, Emotions, Resilience, and Wellness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Taiwanese University Students

Religiosity, Emotions, Resilience, and Wellness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Taiwanese University Students

Religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across countries and world regions

Obsessive-compulsive severity, gender, and religiosity as predictors of personality trait scores

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