Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientations

 

Gordon Allport described two religious orientations as Intrinsic and Extrinsic. An intrinsic orientation views religion as very important in itself. An extrinsic orientation sees religion as a means to an end. A well known article by Allport and Ross (1967) presented a scale to measure these two orientations.

Lee Kirkpatrick (1988) later proposed that the extrinsic orientation has two dimensions: (a) personal and (b) social.

Gorsuch and McPherson (1989) presented findings of a revised scale to measure the three dimensions as

Intrinsic

Extrinsic personal

Extrinsic social

In addition to the general scale with the foregoing three subscales, they identified one item from each subscale, which could function as a single item scale.

Use this  link to the revised scale

References

Allport, G.W. & Ross, J.M. (1967). Personal religious orientation and prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 423-433.

Gorsuch, R. L. & McPherson, S. E. (1989). Intrinsic/extrinsic measurement: I/E-Revised and single-item scales. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28, 348-354.

Kirkpatrick, L. A. (1988). A psychometric analysis of the Allport-Ross and Feagin Measures of intrinsic-extrinsic religious orientation. In D.O. Moberg and M.L. Lynn (Eds.), Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 1, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

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