Pastoral Psychology最新文献

Prayer can provide some benefits at work, but only if it is connected with strengthening the person’s close and truthful relationship with God. There is a lack of research regarding the role of this religious practice in antisocial behavior at work and the mechanisms explaining these links. The aim of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying the association between prayer and egoism at work, taking into account the perception of the relationship with God as a moderator and humility as well as lack of haughtiness as mediators in this connection. The study sample consisted of 754 full-time Polish employees. The mechanisms underpinning the association between prayer and egoism at work were shown. Only for those employees with the highest results in their perception of their relationship with God was prayer positively related to humility and lack of haughtiness and negatively related to egoism at work. Moreover, only in a group of employees with higher than average results in their perception of their relationship to God was a moderated mediating effect noticed. In representatives of this group, prayer was positively related to humility and a lack of haughtiness, which in turn negatively predicted egoism at work. The benefits of prayer at work—humility and a lack of haughtiness and egoism—were confirmed, but only for employees with a perceived close relationship with God. In Polish employees who perceive that they have a close relationship with God, prayer is recommended for cultivating humility and reducing haughtiness as well as egoism at work.

With the global outbreak of COVID-19, it is important that vaccination be emphasized to build herd immunity. However, vaccine hesitancy is negatively associated. Religious views impact the interpretations and acceptance of medical and scientific evidence, leading to a variety of responses to vaccination, such as vaccine hesitancy. The aim of this study was to delve into the reluctance of religious individuals towards vaccines, particularly towards COVID-19. An integrative review was conducted using PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases to find articles from 2020 to 2023. Twenty articles were selected for review. The review found that religiosity is negatively associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake across different religious groups. The article proposes a theoretical way to mitigate religious influence on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Spiritual health is a process of human development that is commensurate with the individual’s spiritual capacities, abilities, insights, and tendencies. Several factors can affect the spiritual health of children, and they vary based on the context and culture of society. The aim of this study was to accurately identify the factors affecting the spiritual health of children in the context of Iranian society. This qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis and semistructured interviews. Participants were 17 children aged 6 to 12 years, 4 parents, and 5 researchers and specialists that were selected by purposeful sampling. Graneheim and Lundman’s content analysis approach was used to analyze the data with MAXQDA14 software. During the analysis of the text of the interviews, two themes of positive factors in the educational system with five categories (Emotional-educational factors, Behavioral-educational factors, Parents’ personality style in the educational system, Education/Training, and Effective socio-environmental factors) and negative factors in the educational system with three categories (Incorrect psycho-behavioral factors of parents, Incorrect parental educational factors, and Ineffective environmental-social contexts) were obtained. The triangle of family, education, and environment seems to play a very important role in the spiritual health of children. How to teach parents about spiritual health and its importance in their lives and the lives of their future children should be considered by activists in this field. Considering the important role of the school as the second home, educators, teachers, and educational programs are essential to achieving these goals.

Grit, defined as patience and perseverance for long-term goals, has been explored with various traits in the past decade. The present cross-sectional study explored the level of grit in the sample along with its relationship with religiosity and emotional stability. The purposive sample included 400 adults divided into five distinct groups: medical doctors, religious scholars, civil service officers, army officers, and PhD doctors from Quetta city, Pakistan (n = 80 for each group; mean age = 32.50 years, SD = 10.51). A significant and strong correlation was found between emotional stability and grit, whereas with religiosity, grit exhibited a significant but relatively weak correlation. A one-way ANOVA was performed to analyze mean differences between sample groups, which differed significantly. Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test indicated that among the above-mentioned groups, PhD doctors were grittiest. Though both emotional stability and religiosity predicted grit among professionals significantly, religiosity did not mediate the relationship between emotional stability and grit. Further implications of the findings are discussed.

Stress resilience is the ability to bounce back from stress. Religious vocal chanting has been known to have a positive effect on stress. This study explored the impact of Taizé prayer as a religious vocal chanting on stress reduction and stress resilience improvement. A nonrandomized controlled trial was conducted. Thirty-six Christian university students in Indonesia were recruited and included in the intervention and control groups without randomization. Subjects in the intervention group performed 30-min Taizé prayer for 28 days. The stress level was examined using the Perceived Stress Scale, and stress resilience was examined using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-25. Differences within groups were analyzed using a paired t-test, while differences between groups were analyzed using an independent t-test. The intervention group showed a significant improvement in stress resilience (p < 0.01), while the control group did not experience any change (p = 0.80). Further, the stress scores decreased in the intervention group (p = 0.03), whereas no significant change was observed in the control group (p = 0.22). Changes in stress resilience were significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group (p = 0.01), while changes in stress scores did not differ significantly between the two groups (p = 0.33). Taizé prayer might have positive effects on stress and stress resilience in young adulthood.

A pastoral counseling approach is proposed in this article. The methodology investigates the relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and existential psychology in order to develop a praxis that supports subjective experiences with a sacred reference while also promoting favorable mental health and quality of life conditions. This methodological framework implies ethical counseling, which involves assisting people with religious subjectivation in coping with their everyday life conflicts to reestablish a sense of continuity in a psychosocial context.