Religious Identity, Mystical Experience, and Psychopathology: A Study among Secular, Christian, and Muslim Youth in England and Wales
January 1, 2014 L. Francis, M. Robbins
Adolescents aged 14 to 18 who are religiously unaffiliated report mystical experiences less often than their Christian or Muslim peers, yet between a quarter and a third of the unaffiliated still report such experiences. Among Christians, Muslims, and the unaffiliated, there is no association between reported mystical experience and psychopathology as measured by psychoticism and neuroticism scales within Eysenck's personality model.