Theistic intellectual humility and well-being: does ideological context matter?

ABSTRACT

Existing conceptualizations and operationalizations of intellectual humility (IH) have not taken into account the way IH is experienced and expressed by theists. Based on a conceptualization of Christian theistic intellectual humility, we developed a measure of the construct, following established measure development steps of developing and reviewing scale items, exploring and confirming the factor structure, and establishing construct validity. We then tested the usefulness of the resulting scale by showing that theistic intellectual humility moderates four of the five tested relationships between religious commitment and well-being.

KEYWORDS:

• Humility
• positive and negative well-being
• intellectual humility
• theism

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Funding

Support for this research was provided to Peter Hill by the John Templeton Foundation, Grant No. 60622, Developing Humility in Leaders and by a grant given to Liz Hall, Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities II, a project run by Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, the UK subsidiary of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, with funding by Templeton Religion Trust and The Blankemeyer Foundation.