Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religious Orientation: The Boon or Bane of Contemporary Psychology of Religion?
Although the Intrinsic-Extrinsic (I-E) framework has provided the dominant conceptual and measurement paradigm for the psychology of religion over the last two decades, research in this tradition suffers from a number of serious limitations. This paper details a variety of theoretical and methodolog...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 442 - 463 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=9604085557&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 9604085557 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00218294 SSN jtl: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) issn: 00218294 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec90 vid: 29 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 9604085557 10.2307/1387311 ppf: 442 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religious Orientation: The Boon or Bane of Contemporary Psychology of Religion? aug: au: Kirkpatrick, Lee A. Hood, Ralph W. Jr. affil: Visiting assistant professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. su: Religion Psychology Religiousness Social theory Psychometrics Research sug: subj: Religion Psychology Religiousness Social theory Psychometrics Research ab: Although the Intrinsic-Extrinsic (I-E) framework has provided the dominant conceptual and measurement paradigm for the psychology of religion over the last two decades, research in this tradition suffers from a number of serious limitations. This paper details a variety of theoretical and methodological criticisms of contemporary I-E research, many of which have been noted by previous researchers but have yet to be adequately addressed. Theoretical problems include lack of conceptual clarity in the definitions of I and E; confusion regarding what I and E are supposed to measure (namely, intrinsic-extrinsic what?); the value-laden "good-religion-versus-bad-religion" distinction underlying the framework; the problems inherent in defining and studying religiousness independently of belief content; and the thorny issue of how I and E are conceptually interrelated (namely, Allport's original bipolar continuum versus the modern two-factor theory). Criticisms of the measurement of I and E concern the factorial structure, reliability, and construct validity of the I and E scales, as well as the empirical relationship between the scales. Although the I-E paradigm has clearly been successful in terms of generating research data, it is our view that much of this work is theoretically impoverished and has really taught us very little about the psychology of religion. Only a few years after the Allport-Ross I-E scales appeared on the scene, several researchers argued that it was time to move beyond a simplistic I-E framework to more theoretically and psychometrically sophisticated approaches. Nearly 20 years later, we believe this admonition bears repeating. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 1990 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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