RESEARCH ARTICLE
Religious Fundamentalism between Traits and Values
Leonardo Carlucci1, *, Armin W. Geertz2, Laura Picconi1, Michela Balsamo1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 14
First Page: 24
Last Page: 32
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-14-24
DOI: 10.2174/1874350102114010024
Article History:
Received Date: 22/7/2020Revision Received Date: 24/9/2020
Acceptance Date: 02/11/2020
Electronic publication date: 16/02/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
Religious fundamentalism is a complex religious phenomenon that involves cultural and social domains. Like values, it would potentially provide a description of how human beings should be. Nevertheless, extensive research has focused on the association between traits and fundamentalism, while the link with values has so far been neglected.
Methods:
We examined how traits and values might predict religious fundamentalism in a sample of 250 Italian Catholics (57.5% females).
Results:
Results partially confirmed the significant positive correlation between neuroticism and consciousness traits and religious fundamentalism, and highlighted the strong positive association with openness to change/conservative dimension value. In addition, when the overlap between traits and values was controlled for, hierarchical regression showed that values predicted fundamentalism better than traits.
Conclusion:
These findings could support the hypothesis that religious fundamentalism can be conceptualized as a motivational-goal attitude trait more than an enduring disposition.