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Intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation as a moderator of key predictors of romantic relationship commitment 内在和外在宗教取向在浪漫关系承诺的关键预测因子中的调节作用

3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231202552

Carolyn H Humala, Sabrina J Eisenberg, Anthony E Coy

Religious individuals often assume that their beliefs promote strong romantic relationships. Yet the empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand this association, this study examined religious orientation as a moderator within the investment model of commitment. A community sample of 84 couples completed measures on religious orientation and commitment as part of a larger study on romantic relationships. The findings indicate that although both religious motivations promote commitment, they do so differently. Specifically, intrinsic religious orientation buffered the negative effects of dissatisfaction in a relationship; whereas an extrinsic religious orientation attenuated the extent to which alternatives to the relationship influenced commitment. Future research in this area should consider religious orientation, rather than overall religiosity, and examine specific predictors of relationship commitment to provide greater clarity on how religiosity influences romantic relationships. Implications for counseling individuals with religious beliefs are also discussed.

有宗教信仰的人通常认为他们的信仰能促进牢固的恋爱关系。然而，经验证据喜忧参半。为了更好地理解这种关联，本研究考察了宗教取向在承诺投资模型中的调节作用。一个由84对夫妇组成的社区样本完成了宗教取向和承诺的测试，这是一项更大的浪漫关系研究的一部分。研究结果表明，尽管两种宗教动机都促进了承诺，但它们的作用是不同的。具体而言，内在的宗教取向缓冲了关系中不满的负面影响;而外在的宗教取向则减弱了替代关系对承诺的影响程度。这一领域的未来研究应该考虑宗教取向，而不是整体的宗教虔诚度，并研究关系承诺的具体预测因素，以更清楚地了解宗教虔诚度如何影响浪漫关系。本文还讨论了对有宗教信仰的个体进行咨询的意义。

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The experience of, and beliefs about, divine grace in mainline protestant Christianity: A consensual qualitative approach 主流新教基督教中对神圣恩典的体验和信仰:一种一致同意的定性方法

3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231197241

Adam S Hodge, Jolene Norton, Logan T Karwoski, Julian Yoon, Joshua N Hook, Kristen Kansiewicz, Hansong Zhang, Laura E Captari, Don E Davis, Daryl R Van Tongeren

The empirical study of grace, a relational virtue, is in its beginning stages. The purpose of this study was to provide rich, context-based, qualitative data to describe Mainline Protestants’ (a) experiences of, and (b) beliefs about, divine grace. Interviews were conducted with 28 community adults who were affiliated with Mainline Protestant Churches. Results indicated that Mainline Protestant Christians have varying beliefs about divine grace and how it is related to both the present moment and the afterlife. Divine grace was often defined as, or associated with, other relational virtues (e.g., forgiveness and love), and participants occasionally defined grace as a gift. In addition, divine grace was also reported to be difficult to accept at times for a variety of reasons, but the effects of divine grace have direct associations with participants’ overall well-being. Divine grace was also associated with beliefs about heaven or the afterlife, yet participants had varying beliefs about how grace is applied to non-Christians. Limitations and future directions for research are discussed in light of the present empirical literature on divine grace.

作为一种关系美德，对优雅的实证研究正处于起步阶段。本研究的目的是提供丰富的、基于上下文的定性数据来描述主流新教徒(a)对神恩的体验和(b)对神恩的信仰。对28名隶属于主流新教教会的社区成年人进行了采访。结果表明，主流新教基督徒对神的恩典有不同的信仰，以及它与现在和来世的关系。神圣的恩典通常被定义为，或与其他相关的美德(例如，宽恕和爱)相关联，参与者偶尔将恩典定义为礼物。此外，据报道，由于各种原因，神圣恩典有时也难以接受，但神圣恩典的影响与参与者的整体幸福感有直接联系。神的恩典也与天堂或来世的信仰有关，然而参与者对恩典如何应用于非基督徒有不同的看法。根据目前关于神圣恩典的实证文献，讨论了研究的局限性和未来方向。

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Unpackaging gender differences in justifying morally debatable behaviors around the world: The role of personal religiosity and society’s socialization priorities for its children 拆解性别差异在为世界各地道德上有争议的行为辩护:个人宗教信仰的作用和社会对儿童的社会化优先事项

3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231197239

Michael Harris Bond, Xiaobin Lou

Women generally report greater religiosity and justify morally debatable behaviors less than men. This study examined if personal religiosity mediates the relationship of gender and justification of different types of morally debatable behaviors across societies with diverse religious heritages. We also explored how a society’s endorsement of preferred qualities in the socialization of children would moderate the links between personal religiosity and justification of morally debatable types of behavior. Using the World Values Survey Wave 7 data (47 societies; 66,992 respondents), we identified three types of justifiable behaviors, namely, behaviors threatening human life and family values, dishonest-illegal, and interpersonally violent behaviors. Controlling for age and education, women scored higher in personal religiosity and justified dishonest-illegal and interpersonally violent behaviors less than men, but behaviors threatening human life and family values more than men. Personal religiosity only partially mediated the link between gender and the justification of behaviors threatening human life and family values, indicating that factors other than personal religiosity account for gender differences in justifying types of morally defensible behavior. The linkage strengths of personal religiosity to behaviors threatening human life and family values and dishonest-illegal behaviors were moderated by societal endorsement of preferred qualities in the socialization of children. Thus, both gender and the socialization of a society’s human capital impact on how different types of morally debatable behaviors are justified around the world. Possible explanations for these results are offered and future research directions suggested.

与男性相比，女性通常表现出更强的宗教性，并且较少为道德上有争议的行为辩护。本研究考察了在不同宗教传统的社会中，个人宗教信仰是否在性别和不同类型的道德争议行为的正当性之间起到中介作用。我们还探讨了社会对儿童社会化过程中首选品质的认可如何缓和个人宗教信仰与道德上有争议的行为类型之间的联系。使用世界价值观调查第7波数据(47个社会;66,992名受访者)，我们确定了三种类型的正当行为，即威胁人类生命和家庭价值的行为，不诚实-非法行为和人际暴力行为。在控制了年龄和受教育程度之后，女性在个人宗教信仰、合理的不诚实、非法行为和人际暴力行为方面得分高于男性，但在威胁人类生命和家庭价值的行为方面得分高于男性。个人的宗教信仰只是部分地中介了性别与威胁人类生命和家庭价值的行为的正当性之间的联系，这表明除了个人的宗教信仰之外，其他因素也解释了在正当性方面的性别差异。个人宗教信仰与威胁人类生命和家庭价值的行为以及不诚实-非法行为的联系强度被社会对儿童社会化中首选品质的认可所调节。因此，性别和社会人力资本的社会化都会影响到不同类型的道德争议行为在世界范围内的正当性。对这些结果提出了可能的解释，并提出了未来的研究方向。

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Contributions of Muslim medieval scholars to psychology 穆斯林中世纪学者对心理学的贡献

3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231197238

Sameer Ansari, Naved Iqbal

Psychology has been the significant discipline since the time of antiquity which becomes more consolidated during the medieval age of Islam. It had a strong foundation in the professional writings of polymaths from the Islamic Middle Ages that were eventually transmitted to the West. However, the unique psychological contributions of these medieval polymaths remained largely unexplored. Despite the growing interest in their work, which is partly due to Islamic psychology, only a handful of them have been investigated for their unique psychological contributions, and a complete examination of psychological work has not been done, separately from an Islamic perspective. The majority of them have only been examined in terms of their medical value, neglecting psychological issues in their all-encompassing approaches to care. Therefore, it was quintessential to extensively explore all those scholars who contributed to the various fields of psychology and to fill a gap of information that has been left by the previous researchers.

自古代以来，心理学一直是重要的学科，在伊斯兰教的中世纪时期变得更加巩固。它有一个坚实的基础，来自伊斯兰教中世纪的博学家的专业著作，最终传播到西方。然而，这些中世纪博学者的独特心理贡献在很大程度上仍未被探索。尽管人们对他们的工作越来越感兴趣，这部分是由于伊斯兰心理学，但只有少数人因其独特的心理学贡献而受到调查，而且还没有人从伊斯兰的角度单独对心理学工作进行全面的检查。他们中的大多数只在医疗价值方面进行了检查，而忽视了他们全方位护理方法中的心理问题。因此，广泛探索那些对心理学各个领域做出贡献的学者，填补前人留下的信息空白，是非常重要的。

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A comprehensive literature review of Islam-oriented scales on religiosity, spirituality, and morality 对伊斯兰教导向的宗教性、精神性和道德性量表的综合文献综述

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231190958

Urfath Nabi, Shawkat Ahmad Shah, Adil Hussain Seh

Measurements play a significant role in the scientific investigation of religious phenomena. The study of religion, in general, has attracted considerable attention from academia and literature. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic analysis of the literature regarding scales that have been developed for measuring variables with Islamic relevance and importance, having a theoretical framework embedded in the primary sources of Islamic literature (the Quran and hadith) and validated on Muslim samples. Six well-known databases were selected—ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald Insight, and Google Scholar—to conduct an in-depth search of existing literature on the topic. Results revealed three broad concepts that have been the focus of measurement: religiosity, spirituality, and morality. Based on our analysis, it can be suggested that although there has been an increase in measuring Islamic religiousness in recent years, there is scope for improvement. This analytical review can be a valuable resource for researchers interested in selecting a valid and trustworthy scale that meets the criteria of their study settings.

测量在宗教现象的科学研究中起着重要作用。总的来说，宗教研究已经引起了学术界和文学界的相当大的关注。本研究的目的是对文献进行系统的分析，这些文献是为测量与伊斯兰相关和重要的变量而开发的，具有嵌入伊斯兰文献(古兰经和圣训)的主要来源的理论框架，并在穆斯林样本上进行验证。我们选择了六个知名的数据库——sciencedirect、Web of Science、b施普林格、Taylor & Francis、Emerald Insight和谷歌scholar——对该主题的现有文献进行了深入的搜索。结果揭示了三个广泛的概念，一直是衡量的重点:宗教信仰，精神和道德。根据我们的分析，可以认为，尽管近年来测量伊斯兰教的宗教程度有所增加，但仍有改进的余地。这一分析综述可以是一个有价值的资源，研究人员有兴趣选择一个有效的和值得信赖的规模，符合他们的研究设置的标准。

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The Dimensions of Spirituality Inventory 灵性量表的维度

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231185180

W. Wildman, David L. Rohr, Steven J. Sandage, Nicholas C Donato

The Dimensions of Spirituality Inventory (DSI) is a 50-item quantitative assessment of spirituality. Whereas “spirituality” has seemed to some to be too vague for research purposes, the DSI follows earlier qualitative research in showing that usage of the word points to an intelligible conceptual structure. Instead of defining spirituality and then operationalizing it, as most extant instruments do, the DSI defines and operationalizes 21 relatively uncontroversial elemental components of spirituality, so the overall interpretation of spirituality can only emerge after factor analysis. Just as an alphabet flexibly expresses words and sentences, so the 21 DSI dimensions permit the discovery of latent constructs corresponding to cultural packages of spirituality at the present time. The DSI avoids culturally parochial formulations of items, thanks to intense multidisciplinary engagement among social scientists, scholars of religion, and psychologists of religion, and thus is suitable for cross-cultural application. This paper reports on a study based on a participant pool recruited for ExploringMyReligion.org , in part from Prolific (N = 820, after culling unreliable responses). The DSI is interpreted and validated in relation to several other relevant measures, and the factor analysis is strongly resonant with prior qualitative studies. The psychometric properties of the DSI make it usable as an overall spirituality scale as well as a sensitive inventory of types and configurations of spirituality.

灵性量表的维度(DSI)是一个50个项目的灵性定量评估。尽管“灵性”一词在某些人看来对于研究目的来说过于模糊，但DSI遵循了早期的定性研究，表明该词的使用指向一个可理解的概念结构。DSI并没有像大多数现存的工具那样定义灵性，然后将其操作化，而是定义并操作了灵性的21个相对没有争议的元素组成部分，因此，灵性的整体解释只能在因素分析之后出现。就像字母灵活地表达单词和句子一样，21个DSI维度允许发现与当前灵性文化包相对应的潜在构念。由于社会科学家、宗教学者和宗教心理学家之间密切的多学科合作，DSI避免了文化上狭隘的项目表述，因此适合跨文化应用。本文报告了一项基于ExploringMyReligion.org招募的参与者的研究，其中一部分来自多产(N = 820，剔除了不可靠的回答)。DSI被解释和验证了与其他几个相关措施的关系，因素分析与先前的定性研究强烈共鸣。DSI的心理测量特性使它可以作为一个整体的灵性量表，也可以作为灵性类型和配置的敏感清单。

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Between privilege and exclusion: Orthodox church singers coping with the Covid-19 lockdown. 在特权与排斥之间：东正教教堂歌手应对 Covid-19 封锁事件。

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-04 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231158409

Maria Takala-Roszczenko

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic restricted public worship in many religious communities. This article explores how the amateur singers in Eastern Orthodox Christian church choirs coped with the 2-month liturgical lockdown in Finland during the spring of 2020. During the lockdown, only a limited number of singers were allowed to perform in worship, which was live streamed on social media. Based on a mixed-methods online survey, the article focuses on the psychological impact of the lockdown on individual church singers; their views of the spiritual, physical, mental and communal dimensions of singing in worship; and the methods of coping that their responses reveal. The analysis uses the religious coping theory developed by Kenneth Pargament and his colleagues. The results highlight how the church singers sought to maintain control of their lives in times of great uncertainty by focusing on individual religious activities and participating in live streamed worship. A new kind of autonomy was generated by the accessibility of worship on mobile devices, not confined to time or place. The results also reveal the negative effects of the lockdown on the social dynamics of the choir, the sense of being excluded from the community, as well as the guilt for having the privilege to sing in worship.

科维德-19 大流行病的爆发限制了许多宗教团体的公共礼拜。本文探讨了 2020 年春季芬兰东正教教堂唱诗班的业余歌手如何应对为期两个月的礼仪封锁。在封锁期间，只有少数歌手获准在礼拜中表演，并通过社交媒体进行直播。文章以混合方法在线调查为基础，重点分析了封锁对教堂歌手个人的心理影响；他们对在崇拜中歌唱的精神、身体、心理和社区层面的看法；以及他们的回答所揭示的应对方法。分析采用了肯尼斯-帕格门特（Kenneth Pargament）及其同事提出的宗教应对理论。研究结果强调了教会歌手如何通过专注于个人宗教活动和参与实时流媒体敬拜，在极度不确定的时期保持对生活的掌控。通过移动设备进行的崇拜不受时间和地点的限制，产生了一种新的自主性。研究结果还揭示了封锁对唱诗班社会动态的负面影响、被排斥在社区之外的感觉，以及对拥有在崇拜中唱歌的特权的愧疚。

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Experiences of meaning in life in urban and rural Zambia 赞比亚城市和农村生活意义的体验

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231175186

Anne Austad, A. Cheyeka, L. J. Danbolt, Gilbert Kamanga, Nelly Mwale, H. Stifoss-Hanssen, T. Sørensen, T. Schnell

Meaning in life has become an important topic in empirical research in the psychology of religion. Although it has been studied and found applicable in many different contexts, research on meaning in life and sources of meaning in African countries is scarce. This study qualitatively investigates understandings and experiences of meaning in life and sources of meaning among urban and village dwellers with different educational backgrounds in Zambia. Seven focus group interviews (total N = 52) were conducted and analysed, drawing on Schnell’s model of meaning in life and sources of meaning. The results indicate that the concept of meaning in life is relevant to both urban and village dwellers in Zambia. Meaning experiences and sources of meaning are associated with certain life domains: relationships; religion; education and work; leisure activities; and health and survival. Each life domain includes several fundamental sources of meaning, which can be related to Schnell’s four dimensions of sources of meaning: self-transcendence, self-actualisation, order and well-being and relatedness. The results are discussed in light of extant studies on meaning and cultural characteristics in Africa.

生命意义已成为宗教心理学实证研究中的一个重要课题。虽然它已经被研究并发现适用于许多不同的背景，但非洲国家对生活意义和意义来源的研究很少。本研究定性地调查了赞比亚不同教育背景的城乡居民对生活意义的理解和体验以及意义的来源。利用Schnell的生活意义模型和意义的来源，进行了7次焦点小组访谈(共N = 52)并进行了分析。研究结果表明，生活意义的概念在赞比亚的城市和农村居民中都是相关的。意义体验和意义的来源与某些生活领域有关:人际关系;宗教;教育和工作;休闲活动;健康和生存。每个生命领域都包含几个基本的意义来源，这与Schnell提出的四个意义来源维度有关:自我超越、自我实现、秩序、幸福和关系。本文结合已有的关于非洲意义和文化特征的研究进行了讨论。

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Allah has told us everything: An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring the lived experiences of British Muslims 安拉告诉了我们一切:对英国穆斯林生活经历的解释性现象学分析

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/00846724231158415

James Murphy, F. Jones, D. Nigbur

There is a need to better understand how individuals in different religious groups construct and maintain their worldviews. This study explores how religious practices, beliefs, and relationships create and sustain the worldviews of five British Muslims. Semi-structured interviews were inductively analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to idiographically explore the participants’ lived experiences. This analysis developed multiple subordinate themes that formed two superordinate themes: “Submitting to Allah” and “Being a British Muslim.” The participants’ experiences of being raised in Muslim families strongly shaped their beliefs and they each strongly identify themselves as both Muslim and British. These important relationships taught them to follow the teachings of the Qur’an and to live their lives in submission to God. The analysis suggests the belief that the Qur’an is the authoritative and enduring revelation of God to mankind provided the core of their worldview and that this belief had far-reaching implications for every aspect of their lives. Their social relationships and religious practices both continually affirmed this fundamental belief in their sacred text and created a social reality in which the participants experienced God and submitted to the will of Allah. The combination of many different religious practices, social relationships, and personal experiences imbued the Qur’an with the power and authority to shape the participants’ lives and sustained their religious community. The participants’ intratextually fundamentalist approach to the Qur’an helped them create coherent worldviews that were filled with meaning and purpose.

有必要更好地了解不同宗教团体的个人是如何构建和维护他们的世界观的。这项研究探讨了宗教实践、信仰和关系如何创造和维持五个英国穆斯林的世界观。采用解释现象学分析(IPA)对半结构化访谈进行归纳分析，具体探讨被试的生活经验。这种分析发展了多个从属主题，形成了两个上级主题:“服从安拉”和“做一个英国穆斯林”。参与者在穆斯林家庭长大的经历强烈地塑造了他们的信仰，他们都强烈地认为自己既是穆斯林又是英国人。这些重要的关系教导他们遵循《古兰经》的教导，并顺从真主而生活。分析表明，相信《古兰经》是真主对人类的权威和持久的启示，为他们的世界观提供了核心，这种信念对他们生活的各个方面都有深远的影响。他们的社会关系和宗教习俗都不断地肯定了他们神圣文本中的这一基本信仰，并创造了一种社会现实，在这种社会现实中，参与者体验上帝并服从安拉的意志。许多不同的宗教习俗、社会关系和个人经历的结合使《古兰经》充满了力量和权威，塑造了参与者的生活，维持了他们的宗教社区。参与者对《古兰经》的内在原教旨主义态度帮助他们创造了连贯的世界观，充满了意义和目的。

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Fear of COVID-19, death depression and death anxiety: Religious coping as a mediator. 对 COVID-19、死亡抑郁和死亡焦虑的恐惧：宗教应对是中介。

IF 1.3 3区哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities

Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv Fur Religionspsychologie

Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Epub Date: 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/00846724221133455

Muhammed Kızılgeçit, Murat Yıldırım

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the well-being and mental health of populations worldwide. This study sought to examine whether religious coping mediated the relationship between COVID-19-related fear and death distress. We administered an online survey to 390 adult participants (66.15% females; M_age = 30.85 ± 10.19 years) across Turkey. Participants completed a series of questionnaires measuring the fear they had experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, their levels of religious coping and their levels of death anxiety and depression. Our findings revealed that (a) fear of COVID-19 was associated with positive religious coping, negative religious coping, death anxiety and death distress; (b) negative religious coping was associated with death anxiety and depression and (c) negative religious coping mediated the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and death anxiety and depression. These results highlight the detrimental effect of negative religious coping in increasing the adverse effect of the COVID-19 fear on death depression.

COVID-19 大流行影响了全球人口的福祉和心理健康。本研究试图探讨宗教应对是否能调节 COVID-19 相关恐惧与死亡困扰之间的关系。我们对土耳其的 390 名成年参与者（66.15% 为女性；年龄 = 30.85 ± 10.19 岁）进行了在线调查。参与者填写了一系列问卷，测量他们在 COVID-19 大流行期间经历的恐惧、宗教应对水平以及死亡焦虑和抑郁水平。我们的研究结果表明：(a) 对 COVID-19 的恐惧与积极的宗教应对、消极的宗教应对、死亡焦虑和死亡困扰有关；(b) 消极的宗教应对与死亡焦虑和抑郁有关；(c) 消极的宗教应对在对 COVID-19 的恐惧与死亡焦虑和抑郁之间起到了中介作用。这些结果凸显了消极宗教应对在增加 COVID-19 恐惧对死亡抑郁的不利影响方面的有害作用。

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