Citation

Ghorbani N, Watson PJ, Zarei A, Chen ZJ. Ment. Health Relig. Cult. 2017; 20(1): 20-30.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13674676.2017.1320367

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Iranian teachers (N = 250) responded to Muslim attitude and spirituality measures in a project testing the hypothesis that Muslim personality functioning will reflect beliefs in the beneficence of society and a consequent need to restrain personal desires. Muslim attitudes were especially noteworthy in displaying negative relationships with disturbances in personal restraint as represented by the Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Narcissism components of the Dark Triad. Muslim attitudes even more strongly predicted lower Machiavellianism and Psychopathy when Muslim spirituality was also high. Muslim attitudes and spirituality both correlated positively with at least some factors of a Harmony Control Scale that essentially presupposes beliefs in the beneficence of society. Although complexities appeared, these data supported the argument that aspects of Muslim personality functioning reflect beliefs in the beneficence of society.

Language: en

Keywords

Dark Triad; Harmony Control; Iran; Muslim attitudes; Muslim spirituality