More spiritual than religious: Concurrent and longitudinal relations with personality traits, mystical experiences, and other individual characteristics.

ABSTRACT: People who self-identify as predominantly spiritual constitute a considerable and well-established part of the religious landscape in North America and Europe. Thus, further research is needed to document predictors, correlates, and outcomes associated with self-identifying primarily as a spiritual person. In the following set of studies, we contribute to some of these areas using data from German and United States adults. Study 1 (n = 3,491) used cross-sectional data to compare four religious/spiritual (R/S) self-identity groups-more religious than spiritual (MRTS), more spiritual than religious (MSTR), equally religious and spiritual (ERAS), and neither religious nor spiritual (NRNS)-on sociodemographic characteristics and a range of criterion variables (i.e., Big Five personality

SUBMITTER: Chen ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9846486 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature