Date of Award
12-13-2018
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Behavioral Sciences
First Advisor
Karl G. D. Bailey
Abstract
My project examines two theoretical frameworks for understanding religious motivation and corresponding instruments, which need to be tested for reliability and consistency. Religious orientation theory defines religious motivation as pursuing religion for either extrinsic or intrinsic reasons. Self-determination theory defines motivation as internalization of religious practices. I examined four surveys of Seventh-day Adventists from 2005 to 2018 that had either a religious orientation scale or a self-determination theory religious internalization scale. Confirmatory analysis found the structure of the scales based on self-determination theory to be more acceptable and identified problematic items that caused the religious orientation instruments to be less reliable .
Recommended Citation
Prodans, Michele, "Comparing the Effectiveness of Frameworks for Religious Motivation: A Secondary Data Analysis of Four Seventh-day Adventist Samples" (2018). Honors Theses. 204.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/204
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/204
Subject Area
Motivation Assessment Scale; Motivation (Psychology)—Testing; Seventh-day Adventists--Research
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/204
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