RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION AND EYSENCKS PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS - THE USE OF THE AMENDED RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION SCALE TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOSITY, PSYCHOTICISM, NEUROTICISM AND EXTROVERSION

To address inconsistencies in the literature of the relationship betwe en the intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation and Eysenck's per sonality dimensions among England (N = 213) and Northern Ireland (N = 172) university students. Respondents completed an amended version of the ''Age-Universal'' I-E scale and the Abbreviated version of the Eys enck Personality Questionnaire. The results suggest that psychoticism is significantly negatively related to an intrinsic orientation toward s religion and suggest that previous inconsistencies in the literature may be a result of the particular measure of religious orientation us ed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd, All rights reserved.