The Relationship Between Religion and a Person’s Perceptions of Success Factors

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Jasmine Luu

Jasmine Luu is a second-year student. She is majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and Psychology with a minor in Chemistry. Currently, she is an intern at the Social Psychology Network as well as a research assistant at Wesleyan’s Schizophrenia Cognition lab. Her interests are embroidery, swimming, learning sign language and cooking.

Abstract:

A person’s identity is comprised of various components. Some of these components are sex, age, religion, education, ethnicity, etc. These components may shape a person’s experiences and belief systems. In this particular project, the association between religion and perceptions of success factors is examined. More specifically, religious extent is examined in relation to a person’s perceptions of luck and hard work in success. As another depth measure to closely examine this relationship, a person’s sex in relation to their perceptions of luck and hard work in success is also studied. Overall, sex is not quite related to perceptions to success despite the trend of men believing more in luck than women. However, increasing religious extent is significantly related to increasing beliefs of hard work being the most crucial factor for success.

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