As predicted, members of two religious groups (Ns = 40 and 29) scored more internal on Rotter's just world, predictable world, and difficult world subscales and more external on the politically responsive world subscale than 122 college students. A measure of dogmatism also correlated moderately with scores on the just and difficult world subscales.
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