Department of Psychology, Lander College, 75-31 150th Street, Flushing, NY, 11367, USA.
Touro College and University System Health, New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
J Relig Health. 2019 Feb;58(1):41-52. doi: 10.1007/s10943-017-0460-7.
In the present study, we explore how intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations are associated with cleanliness attitudes. We find that reported importance of religion is associated with increased cleanliness concerns and interest in cleanliness. Attitudes toward cleanliness were also associated with both intrinsic religious orientation and extrinsic religious orientation. Together, religiosity and religious orientation account for 14.7% of cleanliness attitudes and remained significant in the presence of personality, socioeconomic status, age, education, obsessive-compulsive attitudes toward cleanliness, and other covariates. These results show that religiosity is associated with cleanliness via multiple routes. We suggest that intrinsic religious orientation leads to increased interest in cleanliness due to the link between physical and spiritual purity. Extrinsic religious orientation may be linked with cleanliness because of the secondary benefits, including health and the facilitation in communal cohesiveness, that cleanliness rituals offer. The implications of these findings for the relationship between religion and health are discussed.
在本研究中，我们探讨内在和外在宗教取向与清洁态度的关系。我们发现，宗教的重要性与对清洁的关注和兴趣增加有关。对清洁的态度也与内在宗教取向和外在宗教取向有关。宗教信仰和宗教取向共同解释了 14.7%的清洁态度，并且在人格、社会经济地位、年龄、教育、对清洁的强迫观念以及其他协变量存在的情况下仍然具有显著意义。这些结果表明，宗教信仰通过多种途径与清洁相关。我们认为，内在宗教取向通过身心纯洁之间的联系，导致对清洁的兴趣增加。外在宗教取向可能与清洁有关，因为清洁仪式提供了包括健康和促进社区凝聚力在内的次要好处。讨论了这些发现对宗教与健康之间关系的影响。
