Unpacking the Relationship Between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Religiosity in Poland: A Panel Analysis

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Barrett, Caitlyn N.; Federico, Christopher M.; Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka and Baran, Tomasz. 2024. Unpacking the Relationship Between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Religiosity in Poland: A Panel Analysis. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 34(2), pp. 49-62. ISSN 1050-8619 [Article]

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Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is typically correlated with measures of religiosity. Though there is much cross-sectional evidence for this relationship, few studies have examined the reason for the correlation. Does one variable induce change in the other over time in single individuals, or do they correlate because the same kind of people (as defined by potential third variables) select into both authoritarianism and religiosity? We examine this question with data from a six-wave panel study of Polish adults, using the random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) to disentangle within-person relationships from between-person relationships. Though cross-section regressions reveal positive relationships between RWA and two indices of religiosity (attendance and identification as religious), analyses using the RI-CLPM suggest that these relationships are due to between-person differences rather than within-person effects of RWA on religiosity variables and vice versa.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2024.2388933

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“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion on 21 August 2024, available at: https://doi.org/ 10.1080/10508619.2024.2388933. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”

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The data that support the findings of this study are openly available on Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/zwn6k/?view_only=a568c8fd91354738a395c280f19d190a.

Keywords:

authoritarianism, right-wing authoritarianism, religion, religiosity

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Psychology

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