Previous studies have identified several dimensions reflecting the concepts used by
religious people in describing God. Semantic Differential research has also found adjectival�…

This study examines whether denominational and age differences emerge in endorsement
of Christian God descriptions developed using the three highest loading adjectives in each�…

Although an overwhelming proportion of Americans profess a belief in God, people do not of
course all have the same thing in mind when they affirm such belief. Believers differ in their�…

A formulation, general attribution theory, is presented and applied to the problem of God-
attribution. Hypothesizing that religious attributions are a function of situational and stylistic�…

This research investigates the relation between images of parents and of God, with special
attention to the difference between maternal and paternal characteristics. Subjects rated�…

Many religious individuals use ordinary social cognitions when thinking about God's
characteristics. In the absence of a generally accepted measure, we developed a measure�…

Images of God data from the General Social Survey (1983) are subjected to factor analysis.
Three images of God factors are identified: God as king, as healer, and as relational. Women�…

The God Image Inventory (GII) is an 8-scale, 156-item, psychometric instrument to measure
the image of God, developed for clinical and pastoral use in N= 1 cases. For research use�…

In this study we sought to address several limitations of previous research on attachment
theory and religion by (1) developing a dimensional attachment to God scale, and (2)�…

Previous work has speculated that men and women develop different images of God. This
study identified cognitive schemas of God via multidimensional scaling analy-sis (MDS) in�…