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Connecting Religion And Work: Patterns And Influences Of Work-Faith Integration, Michael Naughton, Monty Lynn, Steve Vanderveen
Connecting Religion And Work: Patterns And Influences Of Work-Faith Integration, Michael Naughton, Monty Lynn, Steve Vanderveen
Monty L Lynn
Religiosity can significantly impact human behavior yet little is known about how religious belief and practice integrate with work. Using the Faith at Work Scale, we surveyed Christian workers in the United States (n = 374) and found that work-faith integration was positively associated with faith maturity, church attendance, age and denominational strictness, and negatively associated with organizational size. Denominational groups varied in their degree of integration but displayed similar patterns across dimensions of integration. Work-faith integration was manifest most strongly in integration related to the self, and somewhat less so in areas related to others and in transcendent aspects …