title: Male and Female Ministers: Comparing Roman Catholic and Methodist Deacons on Personality Structure, Religious Beliefs, and Leadership Styles.
abstract: Christian deacons (50 Roman Catholic; 50 Methodist) self-reported their personality, religiosity, and leadership attributes, plus social desirability tendencies. There were no significant correlates between social desirability and any of these self-reported variables. Results also found no significant differences across Christian denominations on personality dimensions, religious and spirituality beliefs, or leadership styles. Also, there were no significant differences in self-reported personality, religiosity, or leadership among Catholic male deacons with Methodist female deacons only ( n = 43). Taken together, in the present exploratory study across denomination and gender, Christian deacons view themselves similarly in personality, religiosity, and overall leadership characteristics.
authors.affiliation: DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ferrari
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002410:Catholicism; D002977:Clergy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010551:Personality; D033303:Protestantism; D012737:Sex Factors; D029181:Spirituality
keywords: Catholic; Christian deacons; Methodist; leadership; personality; religiosity