RESEARCH: "A Motivational Systems Theory Approach to the Relation Between Religious Experiences and Religious Motives"
Aryeh Lazar, Shlomo Kravetz
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2005 DOI: 10.1207/s15327582ijpr1501_5 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational correlational study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 164 |
| Population | Young adult male Jewish Orthodox students of Jewish parochial schools |
| Measures | multidimensional measure of religious motives developed by Lazar, Kravetz and Frederich-Kedem (2002), Hood's (1975) multidimensional measure of religious experience |
| Citations | 4 |
| Key findings | Correlational analysis of 164 young adult male Jewish Orthodox parochial school students' responses to a multidimensional measure of religious motives and Hood's multidimensional measure of religious experience led the author to offer speculations about ambiguities in distinguishing numinous from mystical experience, extrovertive from introvertive mystical experience, and intrinsic from extrinsic religious motivation. |
Abstract
This study used motivational systems theory (MST; Ford, 1992) to clarify a number of ambiguities surrounding conceptualizations and measures of religious experience and motivation. These ambiguities refer to the differences between numinous and mystical religious experience, extrovertive and introvertive mystic religious experience, and intrinsic and extrinsic religious experience. On the basis of the assumption that personal goals and affective processes are central and relatively independent components of motivation, this investigation explores the relation between a multidimensional measure of religious motives recently developed by Lazar, Kravetz and Frederich-Kedem (2002) and Hood's (1975) multidimensional measure of religious experience. Correlation analysis of the responses of 164 young adult male Jewish orthodox students of Jewish parochial schools to the previously mentioned measures lead to a number of speculations about the ambiguities concerning religious experience and motives.