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The Purpose-in-Life Test and religious denomination: Protestant and Catholic scores in an elderly population
J B Gerwood1, M LeBlanc, N Piazza
1The University of Toledo, USA.
Journal of Clinical Psychology
|February 26, 1998
Abstract:
The Purpose-in-Life Test (PIL) was administered to a group of 118 elderly persons from three senior citizen centers. Data were obtained on religious denomination. Results suggested that whether a person was Protestant or Catholic had no significant effect on PIL scores, with mean scores almost identical. What seemed to be important was how meaningful spirituality was to the person. Those who scored high on an index of spirituality also scored high on the PIL.