The aim of this study was to extend previous research on religiosity and pe
rsonality among U.S. adults (J. Maltby, M. Talley, C. Cooper, & J. C. Lesli
e, 1995) by examining the relationship between several measures of those di
mensions among non U.S. adults. Participants were 1,040 adults (436 men, 60
4 women) from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Correlational
techniques (Pearson product-moment correlations and principal components a
nalysis with oblimin rotation) revealed that psychoticism shared a signific
ant negative association with, and loaded on the same component as, measure
s of personal orientation toward religion. Obsessional personality traits h
ad significant, positive associations with measures of personal orientation
toward religion. Obsessional symptoms shared a moderate, significant, posi
tive correlation with an extrinsic orientation toward religion. However, ne
ither of these obsessionality measures loaded on a component that contains
measures of religiosity. It is argued that although psychoticism is negativ
ely related to personal aspects of religion and has relevance to the psycho
logy of religion, the relationship between obsessionality and religion is f
ragmented, moderate, and limited.