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Not fitting in and getting out : psychological type and congregational satisfaction among Anglican churchgoers in England
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Francis, Leslie J. and Robbins, Mandy (2012) Not fitting in and getting out : psychological type and congregational satisfaction among Anglican churchgoers in England. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Vol.15 (No.10). pp. 1023-1035. doi:10.1080/13674676.2012.676260 ISSN 1367-4676.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2012.676260
Abstract
Listening to the motivations reported by individuals for ceasing church attendance and becoming church leavers, Francis and Richter identified high on the list the sense of "not fitting in". Drawing on psychological type theory, several recent studies have documented the way in which some psychological types are over-represented in church congregations and other psychological types are under-represented. Bringing these two observations together, the present study tested the hypothesis that church congregations have created type-alike communities within which individuals displaying the opposite type preferences are more likely to feel marginalised and to display lower levels of satisfaction with the congregations they attend. Data were provided by 1867 churchgoers who completed a measure of psychological type, together with measures of frequency of attendance and congregational satisfaction. These data confirmed that congregations were weighted towards preferences for introversion, sensing, feeling and judging, and that individuals displaying the opposite preferences (especially intuition, thinking and perceiving) recorded lower levels of congregational satisfaction. The implications of these findings are discussed for promoting congregational retention by enhancing awareness of psychological type preferences among those who attend.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Church membership -- Great Britian -- Psychology, Anglicans -- Great Britain -- Pyschology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1367-4676 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.15 | ||||
Number: | No.10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1023-1035 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13674676.2012.676260 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2015 |
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