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| Published: September 11, 2021
Suggestibility and Sense of Belongingness of Various Religious Groups in Kerala
Bachelor of Science in Psychology of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Rajagiri Centre for Behavioural Science and Research, Kalamassery, Kerala India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.129.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.129
ABSTRACT
Understanding complex religious influences is a critical dimension of understanding modern human affairs (Harvard’s Religious Literacy Project). The influence has an impact on human beings varying from sense of perceived control to meaningful community life. The present study examined whether religiosity has any impact on any role on individuals’ level of suggestibility and sense of belongingness or not? To investigate this question, data was collected from three religious’ groups in Kerala (N=375). There were participants from Hinduism (n=155), Islam (n=109) and Christianity (n=111). The variables -religiosity, suggestibility and sense of belongingness were measured using the Belief into Action Scale (Koenig, Wang, Zaben & Adi, 2015), Multidimensional Iowa Short Suggestibility Scale (Kotov, Bellman & Watson, 2004), and Sense of Belonging Instrument (Hegarty & Patusky, 1995) respectively. Spearman ranks correlation and regression analysis was done to interpret the results. The study findings have implications for research and understanding the role of religion in human wellbeing.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Sasikumar S. & Joy L.
Received: July 01, 2021; Revision Received: September 01, 2021; Accepted: September 11, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.129.20210903
10.25215/0903.129
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021