III. Methodology Aim: To study the relationship between Personality Traits and Centrality of Religiosity among Young Adults. Objectives: 1. To find the relationship between the five factors of Personality with that of the five domains of Centrality of Religiosity. 2. To find gender differences in the five factors of Personality 3. To find gender differences in the five domains of Centrality of Religiosity Research Hypotheses: 1. There will be no significant relationship between the five factors of Personality with that of the five domains of Centrality of Religiosity. 2. There will not be any gender differences in the five factors of Personality 3. There will not be any relationship between gender differences in the five domains of Centrality …show more content…
(Huber & Huber, 2012). Gender: is defined by the attitudes and beliefs a person holds considering the person’s biological sex. (APA, 2011). Research Design: A non-experimental correlational research design will be considered. In the correlational method researcher finds relationships between two or more variables. Sample: Young adults studying in under graduation and post-graduation courses from Bangalore, Goa and Kerala between the ages of 18-22 will be considered for this study. Sampling Size: 100 men and women will be selected for the purpose of the study. 35 individuals belonging to three major religious groups (Hinduism, Islam and Christianity) each will be considered. Sampling Method: Non-Random purposive sampling method will be adopted. This sampling method involves deliberate selection of particular individuals of the universe for constituting a sample of interest that is representative of the universe. Inclusion Criteria: Individual’s participating in the study must have a religious inclination and be between the ages of 18-25 as these requirements are essential to the basic constructs of this …show more content…
Centrality of Religiosity Scale: The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality. It has been developed by Huber (2003). “High correlations between CRS values and self-reports of the importance of religion for daily life with coefficients of 0.78 in a students‘ sample and 0.67 have been reported. In three studies reliabilities of the individual dimensions ranged from 0.80 to 0.93, and from 0.92 to 0.96 for the whole CRS-15” (Huber & Huber, 2012). For the categorization of the groups of the ―highly-religious, ―religious , and ―non-religious. In their original study Huber & Huber (2003) used 1029 participants from India as part of their