%0 Journal Article
%T Machiavellism and Religiosity: An Empiric Research on Demographic Variables
%A £¿brahim Furkan G¨¹ven
%J -
%D 2019
%X The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Machiavellism is allowing any means to achieve the goals, which is political. Besides that, it may also refer to evil reasoning, deceit, treachery, and gloating over. (Lefort, Dupouney, 1998). This term is defined as ¡°Don¡¯t tell anything to anyone unless you have some benefit!¡± (p.94) in a study named Mach Tests for the use of authority on medical students. (Brown & Guy, 1983). In another definition, Machiavellism is explained as ¡°the degree of belief of being pragmatic, keeping the emotional distance, and reaching self-satisfying results.¡± (p.59) (Robbins, 1999). Machiavellism is the ability of deceiving others and making them behave as desired. (Kanten vd., 2015). This understanding becomes a characteristic over time. People who have this characteristic prefer to experience this in other people rather than being perfect. (Sherry vd., 2006) Besides, covering their weaknesses under looking perfectionist by behaving with this characteristic is also addressed. (Solar & Bruehl, 1971). Religion advices being moral and shows the way for it. Adultery, murder, robbery, for instance, are defined as sins by religion as well as immoral by ethic. Keeping one¡¯s word, not misappropriating, respecting to the elders, showing love to the youngers are ordered by religion and accepted as good deed, and considered good by ethic. It is not possible to separate religious and moral rules from each other. However, as a small nuance, while ethic teaches murder is bad, religion both teaches how bad murder is and how sacred the life is. Thus, religious people believe the wickedness in murder and good in life at the same time. Telling lie is not only bad for a theist but also a sin because person who lies believes he committed sin in the presence of God. (Ayd£¿n, 2014). This study is about Machiavellism and religiousness and the relationship between them. Survey is used to collect data from adults in order to explain Machiavellism and religiosity and their relation. The role of sex, age, education level, income level and demographic variables in Machiavellism and religiousness are taken into account. In literature, other studies about this topic are also mentioned. Such questions like; What are the levels of machiavelist personality and religiousness of participants? How machiavelist personality and religiosity level change according to demographic variables? form the main problems of this study. £¿ Does Machiavellism differ by age, gender, educational attainment, income, and residential place? £¿ Does Religiosity differ by
%K Machiavelli
%K Makyavelizm
%K Din
%K Dindarl£¿k
%K Makyavelist Ki£¿ilik
%K Din Psikolojisi
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/bilimname/issue/43606/536868