Abstract

BENOLIEL, Débora; ETCHEZAHAR, Edgardo  and  UNGARETTI, Joaquín. Religious Fundamentalism and its Relation to Psychosocial Variables in Orthodox Jews. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.1, pp.36-48.  Epub Jan 11, 2021. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2020.1.331.

Religious fundamentalism expresses a set of beliefs based on a literal interpretation of a manuscript considered sacred, with an intransigent demand for submission to a doctrine. Different psychosocial variables such as authoritarianism, social dominance, the need for closure and the gender role ideology have been studied in relation to religious fundamentalism. On the one hand, authoritarianism and social dominance have been considered as predictors of religious fundamentalism while, on the other hand, the need for closure and the gender role ideology have been studied in their relations with religious fundamentalism. The aim of this work was to review these relationships and propose a theoretical model that links them, in a sample of Orthodox Jews. We worked with a non-probabilistic sample of Orthodox Jews, composed of 426 adults between men and women, with an age range of 18 to 69 years. The results observed, in convergence with previous studies, confirm the positive relationships between religious fundamentalism and the need for cognitive closure, the authoritarianism of the right wing, the orientation to social dominance and the ideology of gender roles. From this, a theoretical model is proposed in which authoritarianism and social dominance modulate the levels of need for closure and religious fundamentalism which, in turn, affect the levels of ideology of the gender role. The scope and limits of the theoretical proposal are discussed.

Keywords : Religious Fundamentalism; Authoritarism; Social Dominance; Gender Role; Orthodox Jews.

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