1992/04/01 by Bob Altemeyer, Bruce Hunsberger · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
paper · doi:10.1207/s15327582ijpr0202_5
openalex publication_date 1992/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Five studies of university students and their parents were carried out to investigate the relationships among right-wing authoritarianism, various indices of religious orientation, and prejudice. Measures of religious fundamentalism, and religious quest, developed for this research, proved to be psychometrically sound, and were good discriminators between prejudiced and unprejudiced persons, across a variety of different measures of prejudice and authoritarian aggression. Scores on both Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Quest scales also were correlated strongly with right-wing authoritarianism and the Christian Orthodoxy scale, although orthodoxy itself tended not to be correlated with prejudice. Apparently, religious fundamentalism and nonquesting are linked with authoritarianism and prejudice toward a wide variety of minority groups. Possible explanations for these relationships are discussed.