Spiritual involvement and belief: the relationship between spirituality and Eysenck's personality dimensions

To examine the generalizability of the finding that low psychoticism underpins religiosity, the present study sought to examine the relationship between Eysenck's personality dimensions and four indices of spirituality. Three hundred undergraduate students (140 males, 160 females) completed the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale and the abbreviated form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The results suggest that when applying Eysenck's model of personality to spirituality, it is extraversion that accounts for most variance (between 9% and 14%) in spirituality scores. The present findings suggest a new avenue of empirical investigation in which wider concepts of spirituality and religion can be examined within Eysenck's model of personality. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.