Bylski N C, Westman A S
Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 48197.
Psychol Rep. 1991 Jun;68(3 Pt 2):1389-90. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1991.68.3c.1389.
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 religiosity was more influenced by socialization than by individual anxieties or personality variables such as defense style.
63名平均年龄为26.8岁的参与者回答了一份测量防御方式、存在焦虑和宗教信仰的问卷。防御方式被推广到存在性问题上；压抑者倾向于回避威胁性刺激，他们可能比敏感者（倾向于接近威胁性刺激）有更少的存在焦虑。宗教信仰与防御方式和存在焦虑均无关。研究表明，宗教信仰更多地受到社会化的影响，而非个体焦虑或诸如防御方式等人格变量的影响。
