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Article: Personality, prayer, and church attendance among 16- to 18-year-old girls in England.

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April 1, 1994
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EYSENCK'S DIMENSIONAL MODEL of personality suggests that individual differences can be most adequately summarized in terms of the three orthogonal dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1985. Early attempts to locate religiosity in Eysenck's model of personality focused unsuccessfully on extraversion (Francis & Pearson, 1985; Siegman, 1963) and neuroticism (Brown, 1962; Francis, Pearson, Carter, & Kay, 1981). More recently, theory has focused on psychoticism as being fundamental to religiosity (Francis, 1992a). The high scorer on the Psychoticism scale was characterized by Eysenck and Eysenck (1976) as being "cold, impersonal, ...

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