TY - JOUR
T1 - College students' permissive sexual attitudes
T2 - Links to religiousness and spirituality
AU - Brelsford, Gina M.
AU - Luquis, Raffy
AU - Murray-Swank, Nichole A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Research Council Grant provided by Penn State Harrisburg. We thank Amina Gilyard, Megan Fulmer, and Michele Robinson for their tremendous support as research assistants over the past few years.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Clear associations exist between religiousness and conservative sexual attitudes, but there is a paucity of research on spirituality's interaction. In this study, the authors examined the link between 297 male and 642 female college students' reports on sexual attitudes coupled with multidimensional measures of intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of spirituality and religiousness. Results indicated significant links between private religious practices, daily spiritual experiences, and conservative sexual attitudes for all respondents. However, for male but not female participants, self-reported spirituality had significant inverse correlation with permissive sexual attitudes. Further, spiritual disclosure and self-reported extent of religiousness were related to female participants' reports of more conservative sexual attitudes. Finally, hierarchical regression analyses found that spirituality provided unique variance toward conservative sexual attitudes for male but not female participants. Implications of these findings are discussed.
AB - Clear associations exist between religiousness and conservative sexual attitudes, but there is a paucity of research on spirituality's interaction. In this study, the authors examined the link between 297 male and 642 female college students' reports on sexual attitudes coupled with multidimensional measures of intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of spirituality and religiousness. Results indicated significant links between private religious practices, daily spiritual experiences, and conservative sexual attitudes for all respondents. However, for male but not female participants, self-reported spirituality had significant inverse correlation with permissive sexual attitudes. Further, spiritual disclosure and self-reported extent of religiousness were related to female participants' reports of more conservative sexual attitudes. Finally, hierarchical regression analyses found that spirituality provided unique variance toward conservative sexual attitudes for male but not female participants. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/10508619.2011.557005
DO - 10.1080/10508619.2011.557005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956353353
SN - 1050-8619
VL - 21
SP - 127
EP - 136
JO - International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
JF - International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
IS - 2
ER -