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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Psychology and religion"”.
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
… theory of emotion—spanned the 20th century, and she witnessed the rise and fall of many of the major “schools” of psychology. Arnold had an unusual perspective on these theories of psychology, due in large part to an event that occurred in 1948: her conversion to Roman Catholicism. Throughout …
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The dissonance of guilt : an examination of the human condition's fundamental dynamic of guilt feelings, referring to psychological and religious discourse and how they could be combined to facilitate mental health
… cognisant of our obligations to our- selves and to others so that we live within the bounds of appropriate behaviour. When obligations are violated and deviance is evident, the resultant dissonance between expected and contrary behaviour generates feelings of inner environment discomfort and …
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A Comparative Study of Jungian Psychology and Sufism
… of the individuation process in Jungian psychology and the purification of the nafs (the self) in Sufism. The premises for my argument are the lack of literature between Jungian psychology and Sufism despite the obvious potential of comparative materials, while Jung’s relation to other …
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Conditional reflection and the Religion Reflection Scale: How familiarity with different domains influences cognitive reflection
… who are religious on measures of intelligence and cognitive reflection. The prevailing explanation for this phenomenon is that nonreligious people are more adept at overriding their initial intuitions, thus leading to their increased skepticism of intuitive supernatural beliefs. However, the …
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Religiosity and Depression: A Ten-Year Follow-up of Offspring at High and Low Risk for Depression
… rates of depression. The majority of studies on religion and depression have been cross-sectional. The primary aims of this study are to investigate the relationship between religiosity and depression longitudinally, utilizing a 10-year follow-up, and to explore the potential differential impact …
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A sacred kind of strength? : the role of Catholic religious practices as a coping response to adversity
… A qualitative mode of inquiry was employed and data was collected using semistructured interviews. Five participants, aged between 35 and 69 years old were recruited for participation in this study. Data from the interviews was analysed by means of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …
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Development and Psychometric Validation of the State-Trait Spirituality Inventory
… Spirituality Inventory (STSI), was created and validated according to psychometric methods of test construction. In its current form, the STSI contains seven state spirituality items and six trait spirituality items. A thorough review of the literature identified common themes in …
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Longitudinal Evaluation of Nonreligious Coping, Religious Coping, Health, and Distress
… has been widely accepted since Lazarus and Folkman first defined this model in the 1980's. However, some researchers have criticized this distinction; for example, while problem-focused coping involved engaging strategies, emotion-focused coping involved engaging and avoidant strategies. …
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Understanding religiosity : a preliminary evaluation of a process model linking religiosity to relationship outcomes
… D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Psychology, 2010
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Reactions of psychotherapists in training to religious questions
… well-being (SWB) of psychotherapists in training and their physiological reactions to religious questions posed by a mock client. Electrodermal activity served as an index of physiological arousal interpreted as anxiety. Thirteen psychotherapists in training at the University of North Texas were …
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Emotional Health, Well-Being, And Religion as Quest
… between the religious orientation quest and well-being using the 1998 General Social Survey. In addition to the religious orientation quest the extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations were also investigated. Analysis of the data indicated that there was a slight negative …
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Lotus Pond, Bicultural Ripples: The Psychological Orientations of Korean-Canadian Practitioners of Buddhism
… dissertation examines whether Buddhist beliefs and practices serve to reinforce and/or promote a Korean and/or Canadian cultural prism for next-generation Korean Buddhist practitioners in Toronto, Canada. I define Korean and Canadian cultural prisms based on the cross-cultural psychological …