Religious values were investigated in a group of psychiatric outpatients using the Allport, Vernon and Lindzey Study of Values and the Revised Symptom Checklist-90-Revised. Scores of 70 psychiatric patients were compared with those of a control group of 50 university staff and students. Analysis indicated that scores for religious values was significantly lower in the outpatient group than in the control group. There was a low significant correlation between religious values and anxiety (–.26) and depression (–.23).
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