title: Descriptions of religious experience using trait and affect adjectives.
abstract: 66 adults rated the relevance of adjectives representing dimensions of affect and personality for describing how they felt during religious experiences. Adjectives, representing positive affect (enthusiastic, at ease), low neuroticism (calm, relaxed), and high agreeableness (soft-hearted, sympathetic), conscientiousness (conscientious, reliable), and extraversion (sociable, talkative), were rated to be descriptive of religious experiences. The failure of openness to discriminate religious experiences is consistent with Block's criticism (1995) of the five-factor model of personality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro 30460-8041, USA. mnielsen@gasou.edu
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012660:Semantics