Clergy work-related satisfactions in parochial ministry

The influence of personality and churchmanship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19505101
AutoresLeslie J Francis (0000-0003-2946-9980, Bangor University, autor correspondente), Peter Hills (Bangor University), Christopher J F Rutledge (St Mark's Hospital)
Ano2008
Volume11
Fascículo3
Páginas327-339
Data de publicação2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMental Health Religion & Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1367-4676 • E-ISSN: 1469-9737
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13674670701288639
OpenAlexW1966356915
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas22

The aim of this study was to test several hypotheses that clergy work-related satisfaction could be better explained by a multidimensional rather than a unidimensional model. A sample of 1071 male stipendiary parochial clergy in the Church of England completed the Clergy Role Inventory, together with the short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Factor analysis of the Clergy Role Inventory identified five separate clergy roles: Religious Instruction, Administration, Statutory Duties (conducting marriages and funerals), Pastoral Care, and Role Extension (including extra-parochial activities). Respondents also provided an indication of their predispositions on the catholic–evangelical and liberal–conservative dimensions. The significant associations of the satisfactions derived from each of the roles with the demographic, personality, and churchmanship variables were numerous, varied, and, with few exceptions, small in magnitude. Separate hierarchical regressions for each of the five roles indicated that the proportion of total variance explained by churchmanship was, in general, at least as great as that explained by personality, and was greater for three roles: Religious Instruction, Statutory Duties, and Role Extension. It was concluded that clergy satisfactions derived from different roles are not uniform and that churchmanship is at least as important as personality in accounting for clergy work satisfaction

Big Five personality traits · Christian ministry · Extraversion and introversion · Eysenck Personality Questionnaire · Job satisfaction · Personality · Political science · Statutory law · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership