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Social group and moral orientation factors as mediators of religiosity and multiple attitude targets

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Date
09/2008
Author
Mavor, Kenneth I.
Gallois, Cindy
Keywords
Prejudice
Right-wing authoritarianism
Implicit
Personality
Gay men
Christian orthodoxy
Sex-differences
Fundamentalism
Item scales
Quest
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
BL Religion
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Abstract
Although there is a tradition of examining generalized discrimination against multiple targets, recent studies have tended to consider race and homosexuality as separate targets without considering their relationship with each other Recent studies have also argued for a moral dimension in attitudes to homosexuality but this has not yet been explicitly modeled as an explanation for patterns of social attitudes. In a questionnaire study of practicing Australian Christians (N = 143), we examined the relationship of religious orientation and ideology, (intrinsic, extrinsic, fundamentalism, orthodoxy, and quest) with four attitude targets (Aboriginal Australians, women, homosexual persons, and abortion). Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we develop a two-factor model, incorporating group and moral orientation factors, which completely mediates the relationships between the religiosity, variables and the social attitudes. Religiosity variables exhibit different patterns of correlation with the two factors. The two-factor model provides a useful framework for further exploration of socially and politically contested attitudes.
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Mavor , K I & Gallois , C 2008 , ' Social group and moral orientation factors as mediators of religiosity and multiple attitude targets ' , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion , vol. 47 , no. 3 , pp. 361-377 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00415.x
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00415.x
ISSN
0021-8294
Type
Journal article
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This is the author's version of this work. The definitive version © 2008 The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00415.x/full
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3995

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