Lay Conceptualizations of Spirituality and Religiousness Among Jewish Israeli Men and Women

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• 作者：Aryeh Lazar (1)
  
• 关键词：Spirituality ; Religiousness ; Gender differences
• 刊名：Review of Religious Research
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：March 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：56
• 期：1
• 页码：107-128
• 全文大小：240 KB
• 作者单位：Aryeh Lazar (1)
  
  1. Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University, 40700, Ariel, Israel
  
• ISSN：2211-4866

文摘

In order to clarify the lay conceptualization of spirituality and the overlap between the constructs of spirituality and religiousness, the relations between a multidimensional measure of spirituality and overall measures of spirituality and religiousness were examined. A total of 111 Israeli Jewish men and women responded to the Spiritual Orientation Inventory (SOI), a multidimensional measure of humanistic spirituality, and to single-item overall measures of spirituality and religiousness. For both men and women, all SOI sub-scales were significantly related to spirituality. In contrast, three SOI sub-scales—Altruism, Idealism, and Awareness of the tragic—were not related to religiousness. Regression analysis indicated that for men, spirituality is a more one-dimensional construct strongly associated with the experiential aspects of spirituality. In comparison, women demonstrated a more complex perception of spirituality associated with a variety of intrinsic spiritual values. In addition, for men the overlap between religiousness and spirituality centers on life coherency whereas for women the overlap appears to be more general.