Psychological Health and Attitude Toward Christianity Among Protestant and Catholic Sixth-Form Pupils in Northern Ireland |
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| Authors: | Leslie J Francis Mandy Robbins Tania ap Siôn Christiopher Alan Lewis L Philip Barnes |
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| Institution: | (1) Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, University of Wales, Bangor, College Road, Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, Wales, UK;(2) School of Psychology, University of Ulster at Magee College, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK;(3) Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture, Department of Educational and Professional Studies, King’s College, London, UK |
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| Abstract: | Northern Ireland remains both one of the more religiously active and also one of the most religiously divided countries in
Europe. In this context 1,093 sixth-form pupils attending Protestant schools and 1,266 sixth-form pupils attending Catholic
schools (aged between 16 and 19 years) completed the abbreviated Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQR-A), as a
measure of psychological health, alongside the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christainity (FSAC). The findings demonstrated
that a positive attitude toward Christianity was associated with neither higher nor lower neuroticism scores, but was associated
in both religious communities with lower psychoticism scores. There is no evidence, therefore, to associate a positive view
of Christianity with poorer levels of psychological health among adolescents in Northern Ireland, and some evidence to associate
a positive view of Christianity with better levels of psychological health. |
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| Keywords: | Psychological health Personality Religion Teenagers Northern Ireland |
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