Religious Ends Desctiptions

Unseen Growth/Benefit Persons who score high on this domain seek to fulfill their religious mission in life. They want to experience the sacredness of living things and unity with an ultimate reality. They try to infuse the spiritual dimension in their relationships and to manifest their divinity.
Unseen Defensive/Protective Persons who score high on this domain seek to avoid fearful or painful aspects of the afterlife.
Ordinary Growth/Benefit Persons who score high on this domain seek to obtain the benefits of spirituality in this life, such as happiness, fulfillment, peace of mind, and self-esteem. Spirituality enables them to find the strength to do what's right and to be better persons.
Ordinary Defensive/Protective Persons who score high on this domain seek to avoid unpleasant feelings like fear, guilt, and confusion. They want to feel less helpless, less empty, & to avoid suffering.

Religious Survey

  Cal Poly SLO SLO Community Groups
Description of Participants

Number: 186 49
Age: 21.2 (17-56) 37.6 (13-82)
Employment: 61.8% students 50% students
22% FT employed
18% retired
Ethnicity: 63.4% white
18.8% Hispanic
5.9% Asian American
56% Asian American
42% white
Gender: 60.2% female
39.2% male
52% female
46% male
Income: 36.6% over $80,000 22% over $80,000
Marital Status: 90.3% never married 48% never married
Religious Affiliation:   30.6% Baptist
12.2% Episcopal
12.2% Methodist
12.2% Interdenominational
Average Salience of Religion or Spirituality (3-12)

  8.24 8.80
Average Religious Ends (1-7)

Ordinary Defensive: 4.01 4.40
Ordinary Growth: 4.74 4.91
Unseen Defensive: 4.61 4.07
Unseen Growth: 4.69 5.24