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Sensation seeking and religious orientation: Correlation study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Hatam ,
D. Lea Baranovich  and
M. Shahbazi-Fard
S. Hatam
Affiliation:
University of Malaya, Faculty of Education- Educational Psychology and Counseling, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
D. Lea Baranovich
Affiliation:
University of Malaya, Faculty of Education- Educational Psychology and Counseling, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
M. Shahbazi-Fard
Affiliation:
Islamic Azad University, General Psychology, Yasooj, Iran

Abstract

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Introduction

Religious orientation is a tendency to religious thoughts and performances, which contain the attitudes, beliefs and religious practices. Sensation seeking is a personality trait whereby seeking new feelings and experiences, innovative, complex and intense desire for taking physical and social risks.

Aim

The purpose of the study is to predict the religious orientation based on emotional intelligence.

Method

The current study utilized Alport's religious orientation questionnaire and Zukerman's sensation seeking questionnaire and applied the correlation method that provides an illustration of anticipating religious orientation. Of all the population of one university in IRAN, 116 participations were selected by using a multistage random sampling method.

Result

The finding indicates that based on the emotional intelligence and its components, religious orientation is predictable.

Conclusion

It is found that a significant positive correlation holds for emotional intelligence with external religious orientation. In addition, it is showed that a significant negative correlation holds for emotional intelligence with internal religious orientation.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S687
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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