Social Desirability, Religious Orientation, and Racial Prejudice

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Daniel Batson ◽  
Stephen J. Naifeh ◽  
Suzanne Pate
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Racial Prejudice

Subjects’ Religious Orientation, Counselor'S Orientation and Skill, and Expectations for Counseling

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony C. Godwin ◽  
Joyce G. Crouch
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Partial Replication ◽  
Christian Counseling ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
High Skill

The present study is a partial replication of Pecnik and Epperson's (1985a) study of expectations for Christian counseling versus counseling of an unspecified orientation, with the additional aim of clarifying the possible impact of counselor skill and social desirability upon these expectations. Undergraduate psychology students read one of four profiles of a counselor: Christian orientation, high skill; Christian orientation, unspecified skill; unspecified orientation, high skill; unspecified orientation, unspecified skill. These subjects, designated as Christian and non-Christian, rated the counselor profile on 19 variables related to counseling. In comparison to non-Christians, Christian subjects in general give higher ratings to the counselor regardless of the counselor's religious orientation. Non-Christian subjects rated the high skill counselor lower on several expectancy scales than Christian subjects did. No support was lent to the contentions that counselors with a Christian orientation are viewed as less expert than counselors in general or that social desirability can account for Christians’ higher expectations for counseling. Instead Christians may view counseling more positively.

Empathy, Religious Orientation, and Social Desirability

1984 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Watson ◽  
Ralph W. Hood ◽  
Ronald J. Morris ◽  
James R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Religious Orientation

Religious orientation and overt versus covert racial prejudice.

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Daniel Batson ◽  
Cheryl H. Flink ◽  
Patricia A. Schoenrade ◽  
Jim Fultz ◽  
Virginia Pych
Keyword(s):  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Racial Prejudice

scholarly journals A second look at religious orientation, social desirability, and prejudice

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Morris ◽  
Ralph W. Hood ◽  
P. J. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Second Look

Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Prejudice

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1291-1298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Wylie ◽  
James Forest
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Standard Regression

Prior research has not yielded a clear relationship between religious orientation and prejudice in spite of theoretical predictions. It was hypothesized that authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism would be positively associated with ethnic and racial prejudice, hostility towards homosexuals, and punitiveness in prison sentencing. Questionnaires measuring these variables and 12 demographic variables were mailed to 285 Manitoba voters, of whom 75 responded. Correlational and standard regression analysis confirmed that for this sample scores on authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism were positively correlated, with scores on authoritarianism significantly related to those on ethnic and racial prejudice, and punitiveness. Stepwise analysis suggested that the most important factor was authoritarianism although certain demographic variables were predictive as well.

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