Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 2, Issue 2, No 6, Year 2025 , Pages 41-70

    The Relationship of Personality Factors and Pathological Narcissism with Religious Orientation

    Writers:
    Mohammad reza Jahangirzadeh qomi / MA of Psychology from Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute. / jahangirzademr@gmail.com
    Nima Qurbani / Assistant Professor in Tehran University.
    Pages: 41-70 Receive Date: 2025/03/31 Accept Date: 2025/03/31
    Abstract: 
    In this research, the relationship between Big Five Personality Factors as well as pathological narcissism as an unhealthy personality construct and religious orientation of students in Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute in Qom has been studied. The sample group was composed of 104 male students and 48 female students. They answered the following questionnaires: Goldberg's Big Five Personality Factors taxonomy, Allport-Ross extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientation scale, Batson quest religious orientation scale, Muslim-Christians religious orientation questionnaire, Margolis unhealthy narcissism questionnaire. The main hypothesis of this research, i.e. the relationship between personal traits and religious orientation, was supported; however, the ability of the personality factors to predict piety was unexpectedly at a low level. Among the personality factors, emotional stability is indicative of religious orientation more than any other factor. Emotional stability is indicative of intrinsic orientation positively and some aspects of the extrinsic orientation as well as quest orientation negatively. Conscientiousness (dutifulness) is indicative of the cultural religious orientation. However, there was no evidence for the role of "agreeableness" and "openness to experience" in predicting religious orientation. Pathological narcissism is negatively related to intrinsic orientation and positively related to some aspects of the extrinsic orientation such as otherworldly negative orientation.
    Keywords: 
    personality factors
    religious orientation
    narcissism
    Personality
    pathological narcissism
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :رابطه عوامل شخصیت و خودشیفتگی بیمارگون با جهت‌گیری دینی
    Abstract: 
    در این پژوهش، رابطه‌ی پنج عامل بزرگ شخصیت و نارسیسیزم پاتولوژیک، به عنوان یک ساختار شخصیتی ناسالم با جهت گیری دینی دانش پژوهان مؤسسه آموزشی پژوهشی امام خمینی قم بررسی شده است. گروه نمونه، شامل 104 دانش پژوه مرد و 48 نفر زن بود. دانشجویان به پرسش نامه های 5 عامل بزرگ شخصیت گلدبرگ، جهت گیری دینی درونی/ بیرونی آلپورت و راس، جهت گیری دینی جستجوی بتسون، جهت گیری دینی مسلمانان- مسیحیان، نارسیسیزم ناسالم مارگولیس پاسخ دادند. فرضیه اصلی این پژوهش مبنی بر ارتباط ویژگی های شخصیتی و جهت گیری دینی تأیید شد، اما قدرت پیش بینی دینداری از سوی عوامل شخصیت، برخلاف انتظار، چشمگیر نبود. از میان عوامل شخصیت، بیش از همه عامل پایداری هیجانی، نوع جهت گیری دینی را پیش بینی می کرد. عامل پایداری هیجانی، به طور مثبت پیش بینی کننده جهت گیری درونی، و به صورت منفی پیش بینی کننده برخی ابعاد جهت گیری بیرونی و جهت گیری جستجو بود. عامل وظیفه شناسی نیز جهت گیری دینی فرهنگی را پیش بینی کرد. اما شواهدی دال بر تأیید نقش عوامل توافق و گشودگی به تجربه در پیش بینی جهت گیری دینی به دست نیامد. نارسیسیزم پاتولوژیک با جهت گیری درونی ارتباط منفی، و با برخی ابعاد جهت گیری بیرونی از جمله جهت گیری آخرتی منفی ارتباط مثبت داشت.
    Keywords: 
    شخصیت
    عوامل شخصیتی
    جهت‌گیری دینی
    نارسیسیزم
    خودشیفتگی
    بیمارگون.
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