Talk:Religion and personality

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This article can compare personality inventories and how it measures up with religious people. I think more case studies can be included between people who have undergone some kind of trauma in their life with people who are religious to see if there is any correlations in their personalities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azfarzulkifli (talk • contribs) 01:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Three new sections were added: Religious struggles and personality, Religion and Life Satisfaction, and Religion and the MBTI. These edits were made for Psych 4500 at Missouri S&T. Akubiak (talk) 22:57, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

In general, the article has short paragraphs, needs more information, and/or take out certain paragraphs entirely. More specifically, there should be more information in the attachment theory paragraph. It is unclear which of the three attachment styles is the insecure attachment style. In addition, add more information on the strengths and weaknesses for the attachment theory, such as explaining how the data is skewed, and why that is important. For the religiosity and paranormal beliefs paragraph, it needs more information on why paranormal belief is important to include in the article, otherwise, it can be removed. I also think it would be beneficial to include an article over non-believers and their personality. (Abbigail Ely (talk) 21:15, 20 February 2020 (UTC))

There are numerous typos throughout the article, as well as sentences which seem misleading, confusing, biased, or are not clearly cited. There are also several things which could likely link to other Wikipedia pages, both for the sake of brevity and so that readers can quickly access more information about those topics.

Much of the article appears to focus on Christianity, but it isn't clear if this is due to biases in the literature or in the writer. If research in other religions hasn't been completed, this could be an important thing to mention so that readers are aware of the current limitations in research.

As far as article sections, it might be good to talk about some more models of personality, such as the HEXACO model. "Religion and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator", "Religiosity and paranormal beliefs", and "Religion as a personality characteristic" might need to be removed or further explained, as they seem a bit weak and off topic. It also appears that "Religious struggles and personality" should be included under the five-factor model section, as it too talks about the Big Five. Ash Worley (talk) 01:51, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Adding to the suggestions above, there are some very simple quality of life improvements which could be made to this page rather easily.

• Each of the big five personality categories could have its own page linked for easier navigation, as they are all mentioned individually in the Five-Factor section and their own pages have a good deal more specific information
• The wording on the page could do with a bit more polish and specificity, as the use of phrasing such as "pretty small," "very small," and the wording regarding psychoticism on the Five-Factor section are unnecessarily vague given their source.
• The Big Five is linked a second time after the Five-Factor section, and should be de-linked, as it has already been mentioned.
• Source 23 takes the reader to a website on which the source referenced is 404'ed, so another source needs added or the information utilizing it should be marked until the source is rediscovered.
• Elaboration on the flaws which are present in the MBTI would be very helpful, given that they are mentioned but no detail is given

The page also needs reformatting, as the order of the information presented leaves the user without adequate connecting material between concepts, and due to the loose nature of the order, the user is left with a content gap between ideas. Backslash Cole (talk) 04:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Added links to the Big Five factors individually, De-linked the second mention of the Big 5, and clarified the flaws found in the Myers-Briggs while keeping the source provided. Backslash Cole (talk) 04:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I plan to add onto the introductory paragraph, making sure that readers understand the big picture before they read the rest of the article. For both the Big Five factors and for attachment styles, I'm going to correct and clarify definitions, make it easier to read quickly by adding bullet points. I also plan to go through and correct all the typos I see throughout the article, but I won't be making significant changes to those sentences. Ash Worley (talk) 16:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

I just made several edits throughout the introduction, FFM, and Attachment Theory sections by fixing misleading sentences, making it more concise, and including more research. I'm going to also add a section on the HEXACO model as well as a section of other personality measures not encompassed by the Big Five and HEXACO model. Ash Worley (talk) 17:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Overall, this article focused on the topic well and covered most if not all bases it could. I found nothing distracting but more clarification on subjects are needed. Such as, under the HEXACO MODEL header, they discuss that the results may not be replicated in other studies. I am unsure if they searched for other studies and they were none or if they just left it, but more research for that portion would be a good start for clarification. In addition, after checking 3-4 of the citations, 2-3 seemed to work well and take me straight to the cite. Overall, the cites seemed to support the claim well. In conclusion, I realized there has been edits made on this paper starting at the year 2020 and I believe the edits improved this paper overall. However, this article has room for improvements but mainly stays on task and is not a difficult read. Meghan Lilly (talk) 01:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Openness to experience

This article says "Using Eysenck's model, religiosity has been found to be associated with low openness to experience." This statement shows poor knowledge of personality psychology, as openness to experience was not part of Eysenck's model (it was, however, in the five-factor model). YTKJ (talk) 18:17, 30 April 2022 (UTC)