Exploring Regulatory Focus through the Lens of Religion and Morality

Abstract

This research investigates the intricate relationship between regulatory focus, religious commitment, and moral foundations. This study aims to elucidate how individual differences in regulatory focus may influence religious commitment and moral values. The participants comprised organizational managers aged between 32 and 38 years, selected from the Delhi/NCR region. The research utilizes the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (Higgins, 2001), Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ-30, Graham et al., 2011), which assesses moral foundations across five dimensions: care, fairness, reciprocity, loyalty, and authority, Religious Commitment Inventory (RCI-10, Worthington et al., 2003). It was theorized that both promotion and prevention regulatory focus play a significant role in religious commitment and moral values. Individuals with promotion orientation would be high in authority and interpersonal religious commitment. Conversely, those with a prevention orientation were expected to demonstrate heightened levels of care, fairness, loyalty, and intrapersonal religious commitment. Regression analysis was employed in this study for a better understanding us.