Religiosity and Personality among Students of Psychology and Religion

Abstract

The following study aimed to study religiosity and personality among student of various backgrounds, namely psychology students, other students and students involved in study of religion, the total sample size was 70. One way ANOVA was used to find out significant differences. There was significant difference on total religiosity and its Ideology, Private practice and public practice subdomains amongst various class of students, the personality of the students also differed significantly on Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. There was significant correlation between extroversion, public practice and experience.  Conscientiousness had significant correlation with experience and openness similarly was significantly correlated with public practice, private practice and experience.