All types are called, but some are more likely to respond: the psychological profile of rural Anglican churchgoers in Wales

Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type: an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers

“…This instrument was selected because, unlike the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers & McCaulley, 1985) and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (Keirsey & Bates, 1978), it had been designed specifically for application within the self-completion questionnaire-style survey. This questionnaire has already been used extensively in surveys among religious professionals (Francis & Robbins, 2002;Craig, Francis, & Robbins, 2004;Francis, Gubb, & Robbins, 2009;Ryland, Francis, & Robbins, in press;Francis, Hancocks, Swift, & Robbins, 2009;Burton, Francis, & Robbins, 2010;Francis, Littler, & Robbins, 2010), as well as in pioneering surveys among church congregations (Craig, Francis, Bailey, & Robbins, 2003;Francis, Robbins, Williams, & Williams, 2007). This variant of the questionnaire was administered across congregation representatives of the four main church traditions, styled Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, and Pentecostal, with sufficient representation of each category to allow meaningful comparison to be drawn.…”

“…America by Gerhardt (1988), Rehak (1998), Delis-Bulhoes (1990), and Ross (1993Ross ( , 1995; in the United Kingdom by Craig, Francis, Bailey, and Robbins (2003), Francis, Robbins, Williams, and Williams (2007), and Francis, Robbins, and Craig (in press); and in Australia by Robbins and Francis (2011). Studies in this tradition have drawn attention to ways in which the psychological type profile of congregations varies between denominations and between church traditions within denominations, and to the ways in which psychological type is related to attitudes within congregations.…”

New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type

“…Since the late 1960s psychological type theory has had an increasingly visible part to play in the psychology of religion (for an overview see Francis, 2009). Different strands of empirical research within this tradition have concentrated on exploring the psychological type profile of religious professionals (see for example, Harbaugh, 1984;Holsworth, 1984;Francis, Payne, & Jones, 2001;Francis, Craig, Whinney, Tilley, & Slater, 2007), exploring the psychological type profile of religious adherents (see for example, Gerhardt, 1983;Delis-Bulhoes, 1990;Francis, Robbins, Williams, & Williams, 2007;Robbins & Francis, 2011), and exploring the connection between psychological type and different ways of expressing religious faith (see for example, Francis & Ross, 1997;Francis, Village, Robbins, & Ineson, 2007;Ross & Francis, 2010).…”

Temperament Theory and Congregation Studies: Different Types for Different Services?

“…More recent studies in England and Wales have reported on 101 Anglicans (Craig, Francis, Bailey, & Robbins, 2003), 372 Anglicans (Francis, Duncan, Craig, & Luffman, 2004), 158 Anglicans (Francis, Butler, Jones, & Craig, 2007), 185 Anglicans (Francis, Robbins, Williams, & Williams, 2007), 290 Anglicans (Village, Francis, & Craig, 2009), 3,304 Anglicans (Francis, Robbins, & Craig, 2011), 1,156 churchgoers from a range of denominations (Village, Baker, & Howart, 2012), 105 Greek Orthodox Christians (Lewis, Varvatsoulias, & Williams, 2012), 403 attenders at a cathedral carol service (Walker, 2012), 76 Anglicans (Francis, 2013), and 281 attenders at a cathedral Sunday service (Lankshear & Francis, 2015). In Australia studies have been reported on 1,527 churchgoers across 18 denominations and 1,476 Roman Catholics .…”