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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Religious Commitment"”.
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The relationship between religious commitment, spiritual well-being, and psychological well-being
… study was to identify the relationship between religious commitment, spiritual well-being and psychological well-being in college students. The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) and Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) were administered. Also frequency of church attendance was assessed. …
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The Impact of Religious Commitment and Motivation on African American Male Academic Achievement
… were collected using two survey instruments, the Religious Commitment Inventory (RCI-10) and a researcher created demographic instrument for data collection. Qualitative data were collected through five researcherconducted focus group discussions with 10 African American students enrolled in a …
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Moral Orientation, Ego Maturity, and Religious Commitment : an Exploratory Study from a Developmental Perspective
… and the impact of age, gender, ego maturity, and religious commitment were examined from a developmental perspective.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> A cross-sectional design was employed, with adults from two age cohorts (25-35 and 50-65). A semi-structured interview (Brown, Debold, Tappan, & Gilligan, …
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Religious Commitment as a Predictor of Health Behavior and Health Status in a Selected Population
<p>Religious beliefs and behaviors are multidimensional and they profoundly determine the ways we respond to health and illness, suffering and death. Researchers have designed numerous scales to measure different dimensions of religious commitment, beliefs and behaviors. A thorough review of the …
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Religious Commitment as a Correlate of Mental Health and Life Satisfaction Among Black American Families
… identified positive correlations between some religious attributes and individual well-being, it would seem that religious Black families would enjoy a greater degree of health.</p> <p>A religious commitment model encompassing affiliation, participation, devotional intensity, and practices was …
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Job Satisfaction and its Relationship to Organizational Commitment and Religious Commitment for Andrews University Employees
… and its intrinsic and extrinsic facets for religious private universities. Andrews University seems to benefit from an identification of factors contributing to job satisfaction, and a measurement of its employees’ organizational and religious commitment. This study can clarify whether …
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Religious Commitment as a Predictor of Lower Blood Pressure in High-Risk Pregnancies of Southern Appalachia.
<p>Extensive literature review inspired a mediational model of the relationship between Religiosity/Spirituality (R/S) and Blood Pressure (BP) tested through secondary analyses of data from the TIPS program. Participants included 205 (92.1% Caucasian; age M=23.72, SD=5.33) pregnant Southern …
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Job Satisfaction and its Relationship to Organizational and Religious Commitment Among Workers at Northern Caribbean University
… and its relationship to organizational and religious commitment among workers at NCU.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. This study utilized a quantitative, descriptive research design. A survey questionnaire was sent to all full-time administrators and sector managers, faculty, and staff members who …
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An event related potential study of the role of religious commitment in the neural processing of moral judgements
The purpose of this study was to examine how religious commitment impacts the neural processing of morally laden information. Event-related potentials were recorded while 35 participants, scoring either high or low on the Religious Commitment Inventory-10, read scenarios describing a social …
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The Experience of Growing Up in a Minister's Home and the Religious Commitment of the Adult Child of a Minister
… relationships of the PK, and his or her adult religious commitment.</p> <p>Method. The population included Seventh-day Adventist pastors' children (PKs) who were age 25 or older and whose fathers were ministers for at least 10 years before subjects were 18 years old. A survey was completed by …
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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… included both cultural and school factors: religious commitment, knowledge of evolution, completion of biology coursework, student classification, and understanding of the nature of science. Data were collected via surveys completed by biology majors (N=474) at theree universities in …
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The Sacred and the Secular in Religious Philanthropy: Student Perceptions of Secularization and the Ministry of Reconciliation
… personal community relationships, and religious capital, also experience less stress in reconciliation. Prior religious status shifts and turning points in ones life such as seminary, missionary service, and other covenantal experiences provide a significant boost to ones religious …
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Study of Christian attitudes toward man's stewardship of the environment: a case study in the Roanoke Valley
… studies the relationship between Christian religious commitment and attitudes toward the environment. A questionnaire completed by 242 individuals who attend church in the Roanoke Valley provides the case study data. The survey instrument measures Christian religious commitment and attitudes …
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Explaining Partisan Change Among Catholics In The American Electorate
… A complex array of variables including religious commitment, generational differences, social status, and policy attitudes account for limited change in partisan alignment among American Catholics. The analyses expose the long-term, durable nature of partisan attachment, as older …
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Parents, Religion and Interpersonal Orientation : An Attachment Theory Perspective
… years and later psychosocial functioning and religious orientation within the social context of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Recent research in the application of paradigms from attachment theory to adult relationships and the psychology of religion forms the theoretical framework for the …
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Religious belief and the problems of cognitivity and commitment: A reappraisal based on contemporary philosophy of science
… theologians: a neo-positivist perspective that religious belief (RB) is not rational and a neo-Wittgensteinian perspective that RB may be rational but only as determined by criteria internal to RB. Both perspective sharply differentiate religion from science, maintaining that religious beliefs …
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Political identity switching and change in religiosity among students at a conservative Christian university.
… on the effect of higher education on religious behavior and belief. Some of this effect may be due to higher education's influence on political identity which – in a context of increased political polarization and expressive political identity – may impact religious commitment. Using …
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An Ethnographic Study of the Ways in Which Faith is Manifested in Two Primary Schools
Fostering religious commitment in schools and considering children’s cultural diversity arguably enhances pupils’ tolerance and integration, which may have the potential to reduce racism and discrimination. Faith schools are religiously and culturally diverse institutions and typically appreciated …
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An examination of religiosity, spirituality, and psychological well-being among Pagan women: a mixed method approach
… A cluster analysis was conducted based on the Religious Commitment Index (RCI; Worthington et al., 2003) and the three subscales of the Spirituality Scale (SS; Delaney, 2005) resulting in three distinct religious-spiritual groups of Pagan women: Disengaged, Engaged, and Divided. Using two …
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Individual retirement savings behaviour : evidence from Malaysia
… decision. Furthermore, the thesis found that religious affiliation, religious commitment and Muslim religiosity had no significant effect in individuals‟ investment choice decision. In terms of demographic variables, gender, age, and marital status were all found to be significant predictors …
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