Date of Award
6-13-2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Communication Studies, MA
First Advisor
Mary Jackson-Pitts
Committee Members
Lily Zeng; Marsha Hayes
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2014 M28
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to observe how religiosity, religious beliefs and gender correlated to religious behavior. To accomplish this a religiosity survey was administered to college students at a mid-south university from a random sample that was taken from students enrolled in oral communications classes. According to cognitive dissonance theory, individuals strive for consistency between beliefs and behaviors. Because of this, people who endorse religious beliefs should exhibit the religious behaviors that are associated with those beliefs. The study found strong and moderate positive correlations between specific religious behaviors and overall religiosity as well as moderate positive correlations between religious beliefs and the religious behaviors that pertain to them.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
McCall, Thomas A. J., "Cognitive Dissonance: Observing the Links Between Religiosity, Religious Beliefs, Gender and Religious behavior" (2014). Student Theses and Dissertations. 759.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/759
