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Who Goes There? Attendance at Fresh Expressions of Church in Relation to Psychological Type Preferences among Readers of theChurch Times

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Fresh Expressions of Church (FxC) is the term used to refer to a range of initiatives within the Church of England designed to move the church from maintenance to mission. Theoretically, those who attend such churches should present a different socio-psychological profile from those who attend traditional forms of Anglican worship. This idea was tested on a sample of 4485 Church Times readers who completed a wide-ranging questionnaire published in two editions of the weekly newspaper in 2013. The questionnaire included an item asking about attendance at FxC, alongside the Francis Psychological Type Scales. Compared with the rest of the sample, those who attended FxC were more likely to be female, more likely to be ordained, more likely to be under sixty, and more likely to attend congregations of the evangelical rather than broad-church or Anglo-Catholic traditions. For psychological type, attendees of both sexes showed a stronger preference for intuition over sensing, and for extraversion over introversion, compared with non-attendees. Among men but not women, attendees showed a stronger preference for perceiving over judging compared with non-attendees.

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