Week 2

Question 1

List a few positives of religious belief?

Answer 1

• Sense of meaning and purpose of life
• social support
• healthier lifestyles
• care/ concern for others
• coping (through prayer or rituals)

Question 2

what are some of the impacts that occur when people deviate from religious norms?

Answer 2

• distress
• feelings of abandonment
• guilt
  -poor mental health

Question 3

What is scrupulosity?

Answer 3

A type of OCD where religion and OCD intersect.

Question 4

What are the cognitive aspects associated with scrupulosity?

Answer 4

pathological obsessions related to religion and moral issues.
Extreme tunnel vision

Question 5

What are the behavioural aspects associated with scrupulosity?

Answer 5

compulsive confessions and rituals

Question 6

What are the affective aspects of scrupulosoty?

Answer 6

Hopelessness, shame, uncertainty, anhedonia

Question 7

what are the social aspects of scrupulosity

Answer 7

isolation

Question 8

Is perfection negatively or positively correlated with religion?

Answer 8

positively

Question 9

what characteristics of the big 5 are higher in those who are religious (OCEAN)?

Answer 9

Agreeableness and conscientiousness

Also openness

Question 10

What characteristic in the big 5 is Religion negatively associated with according to studies?

Answer 10

• neuroticism