[Religious dogmatism and ecclesiogenic neuroses. A quasi-experimental contribution to Catholic church communities between tradition and pleuralism].
Schaetzing (1955) characterizes "ecclesiogen neurosis" as mental disturbances, which are caused by "dogmatism of the church". To prove his thesis that the factor "dogmatism of the church" goes along with ecclesiogen-neurotic symptoms we use as factorial levels two different forms of Catholic congregations, that is to say a "traditional congregation" (high "dogmatism of the church") and a "pluralistic" one (low "dogmatism of the church"). In this quasi-experimental design 93 Catholics who are involved in the church of a "traditional" congregation and 70 of a "pluralistic" one are examined. The correctness of categorizing these congregations to the factorial levels is proved empirically. To record ecclesiogen-neurotic symptoms we consider "religious anxiety" (Kim, 1988) and "depressivity" (Zerssen, 1976). Our findings show that active Catholics of both congregations show a distinct higher expressivity in the dependent variable "depressivity" compared with the mean population. The comparison of both congregation samples by analysis of covariance shows furthermore, that the dependent variable "religious anxiety" is significantly higher in the "traditional" congregation than in the "pluralistic" one. The results are later critically discussed.
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Institut für Psychologie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
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D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001318:Authoritarianism; D002410:Catholicism; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010684:Philosophy; D012069:Religion and Psychology
Kirchlicher Dogmatismus und ekklesiogene Neurosen. Ein quasiexperimenteller Beitrag über katholische Kirchengemeinden zwischen Tradition und Pluralisierung.