An extended pool of religious motives was developed by asking a heterogeneous group of 302 volunteers to report three motives for their religious activity. Each of the 905 motives, compared to prior motivational lists, gave a list of 103 non-overlapping religious motives. Then homogeneous motivational dimensions through a factor analysis of the 103 motives were identified by asking 220 individuals to rate the importance of each motive in their own religious activity. Eleven primary factors were extracted.
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