(n.) Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another influence was Pietism, a movement within Lutheranism that emphasised hard work and shunned worldly amusements.
(2) The medicinal legalities of the Anhaltine territories developing under the influence of Enlightenment and Pietism and then characterized by philanthropism contain numerous progressive and for their age exemplary components.
Religiosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(2) The possible influences of gender and religiosity on sexual behavior and attitudes, in the context of Northern Ireland, are discussed.
(3) While degree of religiosity and attainment of good school grades were inversely related to frequent and heavier use of alcohol among nonblack students, they were not related to patterns of alcohol use by black students.
(4) This paper begins with an analysis of an important subset of these studies--those 27 which operationalize 'religiosity' as religious attendance--and which, taken as a whole, point to a consistent salutary effect for frequent attendance.
(5) Attitudes towards mild and severe mental handicap were examined, as well as whether these attitudes are influenced by social class, sex, religiosity, and order of questionnaire presentation.
(6) The preliminary results of this research project support earlier findings that religiosity does not change significantly as one ages, although there is a trend in the results that suggests otherwise.
(7) Reasonable levels of social stability, a lack of significant psychopathology, and signs of religiosity and authoritarianism have also been shown to characterize those who affiliate with AA.
(8) Religiosity had no effect on any of the dependent variables.
(9) Differences between groups in religiosity and socialization were found.
(10) Religiosity is high among Egyptians of all political stripes – but many of the most devout wish the Brotherhood (as well as the ultra-orthodox Salafist groups to their right) would leave people to interpret religion in their own way.
(11) Effects of counselor's profanity and subject's religiosity on acquisition of lecture content and behavioral compliance were investigated.
(12) In a multiple logistic model, the following possible predictors of CHD were included: age, cigarette smoking, use of alcohol, exercise, religiosity, years of education, hypertension, diabetes, family history of CHD, body mass index, lipid and lipoprotein variables.
(13) Views of spirituality from multiple disciplines are discussed to illustrate the diversity of the phenomenon and contrast views that primarily emphasize religiosity and psychosocial factors.
(14) Alienation and attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and homosexuals were not influenced by gender or religiosity.
(15) A questionnaire designed to measure contraceptive knowledge, self-esteem and religiosity was administered to 28 pregnant, unmarried adolescents and to 31 unmarried, never-pregnant, adolescent contraceptive users.
(16) Findings for this sample indicate that intensity of religious commitment is a potentially more meaningful measure of religiosity than is formal church membership, that intensity of religious commitment tends to vary inversely with the extent of ILTB observed for the patient, and that "stigma avoidance" may play a role in the tendency for certain religious affiliates to make more extensive use of ILTB.
(17) These two groups reported that before the age of 20 a relatively small difference in religiosity existed but by old age this difference had become substantial.
(18) The hypothesis stating a positive relationship of high religiosity and good adjustment was not confirmed.
(19) Much research has indicated that age, gender, grade in school, religiosity, socioeconomic status, and involvement in extracurricular activities are all related to adolescent alcohol use.
(20) The effect of religiosity on suicide ideation is independent of education, gender, marital status, and age.