Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.1177/00916471231151695
Elijah Lee, J. Sells, M. Newmeyer, Kathleen R. Arveson
Constructs regarding attachment to God and differentiation of self (DoS) have a robust foundation in the literature; however, studies regarding other cultures, specifically, second-generation Christian Korean Americans (SGCKAs), are limited. This study examined attachment to God, individualism, collectivism, and DoS in SGCKAs. Secure attachment with God statistically significantly predicted DoS scores in SGCKAs, R2 = .087, F(1,143) = 13.704, p < .001. Statistically significant differences on horizontal/individualism scores when compared based on attachment to God categories also existed. Furthermore, statistically significant differences existed on DoS scores when compared based on secure/insecure attachment to God categories. Implications for the church, mental health professionals, counselor educators, and the Korean American community are discussed.
关于对上帝的依恋和自我分化(DoS)的结构在文献中有坚实的基础;然而，关于其他文化的研究，特别是第二代基督教韩裔美国人(SGCKAs)，是有限的。本研究考察了SGCKAs中对上帝的依恋、个人主义、集体主义和do。与上帝的安全依恋对sgcka的DoS评分有统计学意义，R2 =。087, F(1,143) = 13.704, p < 0.001。根据对上帝的依恋类别进行比较，在水平/个人主义得分上也存在统计学上的显著差异。此外，在对上帝的安全/不安全依恋类别进行比较时，DoS得分存在统计学上的显著差异。对教会、心理健康专业人士、咨询教育者和韩裔美国人社区的影响进行了讨论。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00916471221143440
Romina Istratii, Parveen Ali
Research on religion and intimate partner violence does not appear to have integrated well the current evidence on religion/spirituality, marital functioning, and mental health and lacks a cross-sectoral perspective that bridges psychology, public health, international development, anthropology, and sociology. A better integration could reveal how religious experience could be leveraged resourcefully in developing faith-based interventions engaging religious leaders and when counseling victims/survivors and perpetrators in religious contexts. The current scoping review explored (a) the influence of religious experience on the rationalizations, behaviors and mental state of victims/survivors and perpetrators, and (b) the approaches and effectiveness of faith-based interventions to respond to domestic violence engaging religious leaders, communities, and psychologists. In pursuing these questions, we aimed to overcome the dominance of Western definitions of intimate partner violence and religion by combining evidence from sectors that are more international-looking and studies from low-and middle-income societies that historically received less attention. The review suggests the need to move toward more diversified and holistic understandings of religion and more context-specific approaches to designing faith-based interventions and counseling responses that are theologically grounded and trauma-informed and embedded in the sociological realities of the individuals and communities they seek to support.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-28DOI: 10.1177/00916471221149108
Hannah Jones, G. Kallimel, Rachel L. Stephens, David Wang
Many of the frameworks that have guided our field on how psychology and the Christian faith can be conceptually and practically integrated have been critiqued for being so cognitively and rationally focused that they miss other avenues of knowing and being. These avenues include the experiential, relational, and embodied wisdom that is central to many non-Western cultures. Thus, there stands a profound need to consider additional and alternative approaches to integration that can more readily speak to the experiences of broader, more diverse audiences. James Cone, a seminal 20th-century African American theologian, is widely respected as the primary founder of Black liberation theology (BLT). BLT is predicated on the assumption that knowledge is primarily built on lived experience, and that one’s theology (orthodoxy) can and must always remain informed by one’s lived experience in the world (orthopraxy). This framework identifies Jesus’ ministry on earth as one of aligning with the oppressed and disenfranchised in society. Furthermore, BLT posits that Christians must embrace diversity in the body of Christ, including different ways of knowing and gaining knowledge. This article aims to draw from the work of Cone and the principles of BLT to identify and explicate implications for a Black liberative approach to integration, discussing how such an approach might be applied through the frame of Relational Cultural Theory (RCT). Specific clinical contexts in which such an approach might be effectively leveraged will be explored, along with examining a program that is currently utilizing such principles. Questions for further discussion and processing are also included.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-28DOI: 10.1177/00916471221149101
Rebecca Bookman-Zandler, Justin M. Smith
Community-healing models (CHMs) are effective approaches in addressing intergenerational, historical, and racial traumas within American Indian–Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals, families, and communities. While medical models of healing and White evangelical scholarship have favored individual approaches to change, growing evidence in support of CHMs in outcome research and evangelical theology is presented. CHMs understand the importance of the context in which problems develop and are sustained and consequently are uniquely suited to address the systemic nature of historical trauma and how intergenerational and racial trauma impacts People of Color and Indigenous individuals (POCI). The application of sovereignty, spirituality, and communal grief for AI/AN trauma survivors is explored. The role of community in individual identity and healing is explored as a biblical theme by both prominent White evangelical theologians and POCI Christians. The efficacy of CHMs in treating trauma within AI/AN communities provides hope for restoration within other cultural groups.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1177/00916471221149123
Brittany M. Tausen, Amy Funabashi
Awareness of social justice issues and their perceived importance varies significantly across many demographic variables including racial and religious identities. Less is known, however, about how the centrality of one’s own religiosity is associated with social justice attitudes and actions. This study explored the relationship between dimensions of religiosity and social justice importance and actions for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and non-Hispanic White students. Christian college students ( N = 168) completed measures of public and private religiosity, the perceived connection between faith and social justice, as well as personal attitudes and actions pertaining to issues of social justice. The results demonstrated positive associations between religiosity and the extent to which faith was believed to inform social justice attitudes for BIPOC and White students. Despite the perception that religiosity informed one’s social justice attitudes and actions, religiosity was only positively associated with actual social justice engagement for BIPOC students. Furthermore, multiple regression analyses demonstrated that public religiosity was the best predictor of beliefs that one’s religion motivated activities related to social justice work, but private religiosity was the strongest predictor of actual social justice engagement. These findings underscore a prominent disconnect in the extent to which religiosity is believed to be, and is actually, associated with social justice attitudes and actions.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1177/00916471221143453
K. N. Thompson, David Williams, Tom Kimber, Delle Matthews, M. Grossmann, Michael Brautigam
This study surveyed psychological assessment practice for cross-cultural mission candidates in Australasia. It hypothesized that there would be a difference in knowledge about assessments between mission chief executive officers (CEOs), member care specialists, and psychological assessors. Sixty-nine mission organization staff and nine independent assessors responded to an online survey about psychological assessment, compliance with Australian legislation and government recommendations, and the use of psychometric tests. The results suggested that pre-field psychological assessments were a vital part of member care. Assessors were more likely to report organizations struggled to apply the results to candidate selection, that assessments were used to screen out people with mental illness, and were looking for different key attributes in candidates compared with organizations. The key areas that were identified as being important to assess were strong interpersonal skills, physical and psychological resilience, and contentment with current relationship status. The study also identified several systemic problems in relation to the focus of assessments, payment, measurement, and whether reports complied with law and government recommendations, and previous recommendations in the mission literature. This study suggested a need for a more standardized purposeful approach to conducting pre-field psychological assessments for cross-cultural mission candidates.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-06DOI: 10.1177/00916471221144671
Holly Holloway-Friesen
The study examined the correlational and predictive relationship between religious coping and a sense of belonging on 202 Latinx undergraduates’ depression, anxiety, and stress. Religious coping refers to the reliance on religious beliefs or practices to cope with stressful life situations. A sense of belonging involves the psychological features of social integration and attachment to a community. The results of a multiple regression analysis found that positive and negative religious coping and a sense of belonging predicted 36% of the variance in Latinx students’ depression. A second regression found positive and negative religious coping, a sense of belonging, and the interaction between positive religious coping and a sense of belonging predicted 29% of the variance in anxiety. A third hierarchical regression found that 21% of the variance in stress levels was attributed to religious coping alone. The results demonstrate that students who utilized positive religious coping reported lower depression, anxiety, and stress levels. Conversely, negative religious coping contributed to depression, anxiety, and stress. A sense of belonging predicted lower depression and anxiety. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-27DOI: 10.1177/00916471221137546
Margaret Allison Clarke
The Clergy Resilience Model is a theoretical framework with a systemic perspective that is useful to denominations, individual clerics, and therapists in supporting clergy resilience and well-being. This article describes the development of this framework specific to clergy. As there is limited literature on the nature of clergy resilience or the specific variables that enable clergy to positively adapt to the challenges and adversity they face, the Clergy Resilience Model provides a useful framework to begin to understand clergy resilience as a dynamic process. The Clergy Resilience Model highlights the balance between adversity clergy encounter and supportive resources they have access to, as well as the overarching influence of key spiritual factors on clergy resilience. The Clergy Resilience Model was developed as a tool that may help clergy resilience both on an individual and systemic level by creating awareness of critical factors.
{"title":"The Clergy Resilience Model: A Tool for Supporting Clergy Well-being","authors":"Margaret Allison Clarke","doi":"10.1177/00916471221137546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00916471221137546","url":null,"abstract":"The Clergy Resilience Model is a theoretical framework with a systemic perspective that is useful to denominations, individual clerics, and therapists in supporting clergy resilience and well-being. This article describes the development of this framework specific to clergy. As there is limited literature on the nature of clergy resilience or the specific variables that enable clergy to positively adapt to the challenges and adversity they face, the Clergy Resilience Model provides a useful framework to begin to understand clergy resilience as a dynamic process. The Clergy Resilience Model highlights the balance between adversity clergy encounter and supportive resources they have access to, as well as the overarching influence of key spiritual factors on clergy resilience. The Clergy Resilience Model was developed as a tool that may help clergy resilience both on an individual and systemic level by creating awareness of critical factors.","PeriodicalId":46761,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Theology","volume":"51 1","pages":"239 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49034427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/00916471221133115
Orlando M. Pagán-Torres, Eduardo Cumba-Avilés
Religious/spiritual struggles (RSS) have been reported as a risk factor for mental health. Therefore, it is justified to explore how this construct may manifest among religious/spiritual people from diverse origins. The aims of this study were to: (1) translate and adapt the RSS Scale from English to Spanish; (2) examine its internal consistency (using α and ω coefficients); (3) explore its concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity; and (4) examine its factor structure via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a sample of 225 Puerto Rican adults. The Spanish RSS Scale showed excellent psychometric properties. In CFA with robust maximum likelihood estimation, a 25-item Spanish version of the instrument replicated the six-factor structure of the original 26-item English version and showed excellent reliability. The 25-item RSS scale also presented adequate concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity. This work advances the development of measures of religious and spiritual aspects in Puerto Ricans.
{"title":"Spanish Translation, Validation, and Factor Structure of the Religious/Spiritual Struggles Scale With Puerto Rican Adults","authors":"Orlando M. Pagán-Torres, Eduardo Cumba-Avilés","doi":"10.1177/00916471221133115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00916471221133115","url":null,"abstract":"Religious/spiritual struggles (RSS) have been reported as a risk factor for mental health. Therefore, it is justified to explore how this construct may manifest among religious/spiritual people from diverse origins. The aims of this study were to: (1) translate and adapt the RSS Scale from English to Spanish; (2) examine its internal consistency (using α and ω coefficients); (3) explore its concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity; and (4) examine its factor structure via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a sample of 225 Puerto Rican adults. The Spanish RSS Scale showed excellent psychometric properties. In CFA with robust maximum likelihood estimation, a 25-item Spanish version of the instrument replicated the six-factor structure of the original 26-item English version and showed excellent reliability. The 25-item RSS scale also presented adequate concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity. This work advances the development of measures of religious and spiritual aspects in Puerto Ricans.","PeriodicalId":46761,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology and Theology","volume":"51 1","pages":"191 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43209068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1177/00916471221126153
Andrew J. Shelton, Carissa Dwiwardani
Multiculturalism has emerged as a central focus in psychology and theology, although the field of integration has been slower to embrace it. In this article, we explore the literature at the intersection of multiculturalism, psychology, and theology using a content analysis. Multicultural article titles and abstracts from the Journal of Psychology and Theology (JPT) and the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (JPC) were examined from their first issues (1973 and 1982, respectively) through 2020 ( N = 2,333). Multicultural content was identified in 18.0% of the articles ( n = 395) with a growing trend across time (11.4% in the 1970s to 22.9% in the 2010s). Of the eight identity domains, gender/sex was the most represented (4.4% of all articles), followed by articles on age (children/adolescents or older adults, 4.2%), global/international (2.8%), non-evangelical religion/spirituality (2.8%), sexual orientation (2.7%), race/ethnicity (1.6%), physical and cognitive/neurological disability (1%), and social class (0.5%). The remaining articles (1%) included multicultural content more generally (e.g., training, multicultural competence, social justice). Results suggest that JPT and JPC have made advances in multiculturalism content, although it remains relatively lower than in mainstream psychology journals. Findings are discussed with a critical analysis and with implications for the future integration of psychology and theology.
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