Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the various religious orientations of those who believe in Catholicism and investigate the differences among the types in the attribution for religious situation and in the religious attitude. The total number of subjects who responded to the questionnaires for the present study, was 453 who consist of 62 Roman Catholics priests, 153 Roman Catholics sisters and 220 Roman Catholics Christians. The present investigation was proceeded, first, by taking the religious orientation scale testing for all those who participated in the survey in accordance with Batson's method and giving them new facter analized orientation questionnaires. Next, the participants in the survey were regrouped by the types how they responded to the questionnaires and each type from the regrouping was identified by the clustering analysis. Finally, the characteristic differences among the types of new grouping ware investigated by analysis of variance. The high lights of the present study is (1)to have priests and sisters who together take almost 50% of all the participants and it makes the present factor-type classification clearer than the performed in Batson's study, (2)to identify 6 types of religious orientation('Orthodoxy', 'Ethics', 'Flexibility', 'Worship', 'Rationale', 'Wish'), which are more than the Batson's 3 types('end', 'means', 'quest') employed, (3)to find that the birth age and baptism age have different interactional effects in the attribution of the religious situation and also in the religious attitide, (4)to learn that it is the birth age which shows the interactional effect more sensitively than the other in the religious attitude for different orders of pray, while (5)to conform that it is the baptism age which shows the interactional effect more sensitively in the attribution of the religious situation between rationalism and magism, and finally (6)to assure that, to those Catholic Christians, the interactive effect shows clearly by their religious attitudes, not by the extent of their apostolic activities.