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Implicit and explicit attitudes towards God and life satisfaction
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Personality, Social and Developmental Psychology. Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak, Israel.
2020 (English)In: Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, ISSN 1941-1022, E-ISSN 1943-1562, Vol. 12, no 4, p. 387-392Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research suggests that spirituality and religion, particularly attitudes toward God, correlate with life satisfaction. These studies generally rely on self-reports. The current research utilized a reaction time task to test whether implicit and explicit attitudes toward God related with life satisfaction in a diverse Jewish sample. Results indicated that explicit and implicit attitudes did not significantly correlate with each other and that both correlated with life satisfaction. Regression modeling revealed a significant interaction. For those with more positive implicit associations, higher levels of positive explicit attitudes predicted higher life satisfaction, while for those with more negative implicit associations, explicit positive attitudes were unrelated to life satisfaction. Surprisingly, those with positive implicit associations and low levels of explicit positive attitudes reported the lowest life satisfaction. Explicit negative attitudes toward God were unrelated to life satisfaction. Results suggest that life satisfaction is best supported by consistent integration across both implicit and explicit domains.

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2020. Vol. 12, no 4, p. 387-392
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spirituality, relgion, attitudes, God, life satisfaction
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-187808DOI: 10.1037/rel0000250OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-187808DiVA, id: diva2:1510469
Available from: 2020-12-16 Created: 2020-12-16 Last updated: 2022-12-21Bibliographically approved

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