Journal
ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 619-630Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-010-9621-4
Keywords
Sexual attitudes; Sexual fantasy; Religiosity; Fundamentalism; Intrinsic religiosity; Spirituality
Funding
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD51676, R01 HD051676] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent research on the impact of religiosity on sexuality has highlighted the role of the individual, and suggests that the effects of religious group and sexual attitudes and fantasy may be mediated through individual differences in spirituality. The present study investigated the role of religion in an ethnically diverse young adult sample (N = 1413, 69% women) using religious group as well as several religiosity domains: spirituality, intrinsic religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and fundamentalism. Differences between religious groups in conservative sexual attitudes were statistically significant but small; as predicted, spirituality mediated these effects. In contrast to the weak effects of religious group, spirituality, intrinsic religiosity, and fundamentalism were strong predictors of women's conservative sexual attitudes; for men, intrinsic religiosity predicted sexual attitude conservatism but spirituality predicted attitudinal liberalism. For women, both religious group and religiosity domains were significant predictors of frequency of sexual fantasies while, for men, only religiosity domains were significant predictors. These results indicate that individual differences in religiosity domains were better predictors of sexual attitudes and fantasy than religious group and that these associations are moderated by gender.
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