Influences of openness and identity style on orientations to religious belief: A proposed integrative model

Religions differ in their relative emphasis on beliefs and rituals. Christianity is a belief-oriented religion, but Christians differ in their orientation to beliefs. People with an Intrinsic orientation live by their beliefs, while those with an Extrinsic orientation use the religious group for other ends, such as networking. High “Questers” explore beliefs. Combinations of orientations were hypothesized to fall into patterns and be influenced by Openness to Experience (Five Factor Model; Costa & McCrae, 1992) and by identity styles (Berzonsky, 1989). People with an Informational identity style explore important ideas before accepting or rejecting them. Those with a Normative identity style accept important others’ ideas without exploration, and those with a Diffuse/Avoidant identity style avoid both exploration and commitment. Volunteers (N = 175) from undergraduate classes and religious groups completed measures of the orientations to religious beliefs, personality according to the Five Factor Model, identity styles, and demographic characteristics. Two distinct patterns of the orientations to religious beliefs were found. One pattern was characterized by strong endorsement of the Intrinsic orientation, rejection of the Extrinsic orientation, and uncertainty about the Quest orientation. The second pattern was characterized by uncertainty toward all three orientations to religious beliefs. Openness and the Normative identity style each had a significant direct influence on the pattern into which participants were grouped, but these direct influences were no longer significant after controlling for age, religious preference, and marital status. The Informational identity style had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between Openness and the Quest orientation, and the Normative identity style had partial mediating effects on the relationship between Openness and the Intrinsic orientation and on the relationship between Openness and the Quest orientation

Federal Courts at the Crossroads: Adapt or Lose

Symposium on Federal Judicial Administration: Stewardship in a Changing Environmen

Temperature-dependent Hall scattering factor and drift mobility in remotely doped Si:B/SiGe/Si heterostructures

Hall-and-Strip measurements on modulation-doped SiGe heterostructures and combined Hall and capacitance–voltage measurements on metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)-gated enhancement mode structures have been used to deduce Hall scattering factors, rH, in the Si1 – xGex two-dimensional hole gas. At 300 K, rH was found to be equal to 0.4 for x = 0.2 and x = 0.3. Knowing rH, it is possible to calculate the 300 K drift mobilities in the modulation-doped structures which are found to be 400 cm2 V – 1 s – 1 at a carrier density of 3.3 × 1011 cm – 2 for x = 0.2 and 300 cm2 V – 1 s – 1 at 6.3 × 1011 cm – 2 for x = 0.3, factors of between 1.5 and 2.0 greater than a Si pMOS control

Reproductive Performance and Condition of White-Tailed Deer in Ohio

Author Institution: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of WildlifeInformation on reproductive performance and body condition in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was obtained in 1981-83 for the glaciated farmland and unglaciated hill country regions of Ohio. Uterine analysis of 275 farmland does and 129 hill country does showed that farmland fawns had a higher reproductive rate (0.85 fetus/doe) than did hill country fawn does (0.62 fetus/doe). Fetuses:doe ratios for yearlings (farmland = 1.89, hill country = 1.84) and adults (farmland = 1.85, hill country = 1.78) were similar and did not differ between regions. Most (>75%) pregnant fawn does carried only one fetus; most (>70%) yearling and adult does carried twins or had triplets. Fetal sex ratios differed from the expected 50:50 only for adult does from the farmland region (40% male fetuses). Does from Ohio's farmland region were consistently and significantly heavier, and yearling males had larger average antler beam diameter and more points than deer of the same sex and age from the hill country region. Body weights, antler characteristics, and reproductive rates for Ohio are typical of deer on a high nutritional plane, allowing white-tailed deer in both regions to approach full reproductive potential. A representative 100 does in the farmland and hill country regions could produce 147 and 140 fetuses, respectively. Because of regional age structure differences, a representative 100 deer of both sexes could produce 83 fetuses in both regions

The Cambrian Platform in Northwestern Vermont

Guidebook for field trips in Vermont: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 79th annual meeting, October 16, 17 and 18, 1987: Trips B-