title: Religious motivation in the elderly: a French-Canadian replication and an extension.
abstract: To clarify further the relationship between religiosity and personal adjustment, four kinds of religious motivation were distinguished: intrinsic, self-determined extrinsic, non-self-determined extrinsic, and amotivation. A study of 176 French-Canadian elderly people found that these four kinds of religious motivation can be reliably measured, that they display a pattern of intercorrelations consistent with theoretical predictions, and that they are related to other important aspects of the lives of these elderly people in a theoretically meaningful manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Vallerand
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010556:Personality Tests; D011792:Quebec; D012069:Religion and Psychology