Abstract

This study was intended to differentiate the religious orientation according to religious attitude, and to investigate the differences of attribution of negative results in social phenomena according to religious orientation. Subjects (Protestants, Catholics, and Protestant college students) were asked to respond to religious orientation scales and attributional scales of negative results in social phenomena. In order to use five scales to measure the three orientations to religion, as a means, end, and quest, factor analysis was employed. It is possible to differentiate three religious orientations, but each component can not be said to exist independently. The significant distinction could not be made in attribution judgements in terms of age, religious history, and the different religions background. The significant difference was found between means orientation and quest orientation for attribution judgements. But the significance of difference was not found between means orientation and end orientation.