title: Moral foundations predict religious orientations in New Zealand.
abstract: The interplay between religion, morality, and community-making is a core theme across human experience, yet scholars have only recently begun to quantify these links. Drawing on a sample of 1512 self-identified religious - mainly Christian (86.0%) - New Zealanders, we used structural equation modeling to test hypothesized associations between Religious Orientations (Quest, Intrinsic, Extrinsic Personal, Extrinsic Social) and Moral Foundations (Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation). Our results show, for the first time in a comprehensive model, how different ways of valuing communities are associated with different ways of valuing religion.
authors: Victoria University of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Bulbulia
authors: Danny
authors: D
authors: Osborne
authors: Chris G
authors: CG
authors: Sibley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009014:Morals; D009520:New Zealand; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012111:Residence Characteristics