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The relationships of family income and caste-status with religiousness: Mediation role of intolerance of uncertainty

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  • المؤلفون: Kumar, Sanjay; Voracek, Martin
  • المصدر:
    PLOS ONE ; volume 17, issue 8, page e0273174 ; ISSN 1932-6203
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    article in journal/newspaper
  • اللغة:
    English
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Contributors:
      Du, Ning; Open Access Publishing Fund of the University of Vienna
    • بيانات النشر:
      Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    • الموضوع:
      2022
    • Collection:
      PLOS Publications (via CrossRef)
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The relationship between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and religiousness is well known; however, its (psychological mediation) mechanism is not clear. In the present study, we studied the mediation role of intolerance of uncertainty (IU; a personality measure of self-uncertainty) in the effect of SES on religiousness and its dimensions (i.e., believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging), in two different samples (students sample, N = 868, and community sample, N = 250), after controlling the effects of factors like age, sex, handedness, and self-reported risk-taking. The results showed that IU mediated the effects of lower family income and lower caste status (in students’ sample only) on religiousness and its dimensions; higher caste status had a direct effect on religiousness (and its dimensions), and; among the sub-factors of IU, only prospective IU affected religiousness. Thus, along with showing that IU is a mediator of the effects of lower family income and lower caste status on religiousness, the present study supports the contention that religiousness is a latent variable that varied factors can independently initiate. Moreover, the present study suggests a nuanced model of the relationship between the hierarchical caste system and religiousness.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1371/journal.pone.0273174
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273174
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273174
      https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273174
    • Rights:
      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.E6ABFD38