Norene C Bylski

• Religious Beliefs are Socialized in the Same Way as are other Beliefs

  Open Access•Alida S Westman, Barbara E Brackney et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1992

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  50 college students and their mothers answered questions about their relationships with each other and about their religiosity. On the assumption that religious beliefs are socialized like other beliefs, the hypothesis that greater closeness between mother and child would be associated with more agreement, including agreement on religion, was tested and supported. Similarly, less closeness was associated with less agreement, including on religion…

• Relationships among Defense Style, Existential Anxiety, and Religiosity

  Open Access•Norene C Bylski, Alida S Westman•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1991

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  63 participants whose mean age was 26.8 yr. answered a questionnaire which measured defense style, existential anxiety, and religiosity. Defense style was generalized to existential concerns; repressors, who tend to avoid threatening stimuli, were likely to have less existential anxiety than sensitizers, who tend to approach threatening stimuli. Religiosity was related to neither defense style nor existential anxiety. It was suggested that religi…

• Relationships among Defense Style, Existential Anxiety, and Religiosity

  Open Access•Norene C Bylski, Alida S Westman•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1991

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  63 participants whose mean age was 26.8 yr. answered a questionnaire which measured defense style, existential anxiety, and religiosity. Defense style was generalized to existential concerns; repressors, who tend to avoid threatening stimuli, were likely to have less existential anxiety than sensitizers, who tend to approach threatening stimuli. Religiosity was related to neither defense style nor existential anxiety. It was suggested that religi…

• Religious Beliefs are Socialized in the Same Way as are other Beliefs

  Open Access•Alida S Westman, Barbara E Brackney et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1992

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  50 college students and their mothers answered questions about their relationships with each other and about their religiosity. On the assumption that religious beliefs are socialized like other beliefs, the hypothesis that greater closeness between mother and child would be associated with more agreement, including agreement on religion, was tested and supported. Similarly, less closeness was associated with less agreement, including on religion…

Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Personality (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works) · Religiosity (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Socialization (2 works) · Anxiety (1 work)