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Studies on the Big Five, as well as factors such as entitlement, self-esteem, and self-compassion suggest that there is a significant relationship between religious uncertainty and personality. [ 31 ]
Research on the five factor model of personality suggests that people who identify as religious are more likely to be agreeable and conscientious. [93] Similarly, people who identify as spiritual are more likely to be extrovert and open, although this varies based on the type of spirituality endorsed. [ 94 ]
Of these types of research studies, researchers have examined the various factors that affect the strength of one's religious identity over time. [5] [6] [7] Factors that have been found to affect levels of religious identity include gender, ethnicity, and generational status. [3] [8] [9] [10] [11]
The Five Strengths (Sanskrit, Pali: pañcabalā) in Buddhism are faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. They are one of the seven sets of Bodhipakkhiyadhamma ("qualities conducive to enlightenment").
The religiously unaffiliated—a category which includes atheists, agnostics and those who describe their religion as “nothing in particular”—ranked overall as the third most educated religious group (8.8 years of schooling) followed by Buddhists (7.9 years of schooling), Muslims (5.6 years of schooling), and Hindus (5.6 years of ...
While he recognized in man a genetic predisposition to order experience in mythological, religious or symbolic terms, [16] Jung reserved judgement as to what bearing this had for the truth-value of religion. [17] He never ceased however to stress the important challenge all such factors presented to any shallowly rationalistic world-view. [18]
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.
The contrast between "religious" and "religiose" (superficially religious) and the concept of "strengthening" faith [5] suggest differences in the intensity of religiosity. Scholars attempt to measure religiosity at the levels of individuals or groups, but differ as to what behaviors constitute religiosity. [4]