Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships

In contrast to research on fundamentalism and death anxiety, there has been very little empirical research on the relationship between a person's eschatology, religious thought and behavior. This study attempts to identify associations between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death anxiety, and an individual's concept of God. Respondents were 226 college students who completed a questionnaire designed to assess how religious, psychological, and demographic variables predict eschatological beliefs and attitudes. Most respondents were Christian, Caucasian, and female. Eschatological beliefs were directly associated with religious involvement, hope, a deistic and wrathful image of God, and death anxiety. These beliefs, along with eschatological repulsion, were also inversely associated with religious involvement. Consequently, eschatological beliefs appeared to be associated with an individual's religiosity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Experimental Psychology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Hellstrom, Ingrid Emelia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janice Steirn
• Larry Locker

• ETD
• Eschatology
• Religion
• Apocalypse
• God concept
• Death anxiety
• Locus of control
• Fundamentalism
• End times
• End of the world

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/429

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1429