Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2017420
Leslie J. Francis, A. Village
ABSTRACT The present study sets the psychological type profile and temperament of 190 Catholic priests serving in England, Wales, and Ireland alongside the profile of 1,298 Catholic priests reported by Ruppart in 1985. In the current study 68% of priests preferred introversion, 61% preferred sensing, 53% preferred feeling, and 84% preferred judging, confirming the findings of other recent studies of Catholic priests in Australia and Italy of a trend towards introversion, sensing, and judging, and away from feeling. In the current study 55% presented as Epimethean Temperament (SJ) and 21% as Apollonian Temperament (NF), also confirming other recent studies that report a move toward the SJ temperament and away from the NF temperament. The implications of these findings are discussed for the expression and experience of ministry within the Catholic Church.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2013788
Camila Chagas, Miriam Raquel Wachholz Strelhow, Wellington Zangari, José Carlos Fernandes Galduróz
ABSTRACT This study presents the process of the translation, adaptation, and psychometric evaluation of the Dimensions of Secularity (DoS) Scale for use in Brazil. This will enable the inclusion of measures on secularity in future Brazilian studies. The psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the scale were verified in a sample of 952 participants. The data obtained show that the scale presented good psychometric functioning indexes and adequate internal consistency indexes for the five-factor, 22-item model. Correlations of the DoS Scale with other constructs were also evaluated to seek evidence of discriminant and convergent validity. The Brazilian version of the DoS Scale is a measure that can be used to assess the degrees of atheism and agnosticism and the philosophical dimensions of secularity.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2009787
D.I. Ansusa Putra, Umma Farida, D. Sartika, Abdurrohman Kasdi, S. Handayani
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has created excessive anxiety and psychological disaster globally. People try to calm their souls by performing religious rituals such as Salawat. This research explains the uniqueness of Quran and hadith-based mental health in dealing with pandemics using the Salawat tradition in Indonesia. This is qualitative research with data collected from the Salawat communities through in-depth interviews and observations, then analyzed using Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to determine the level of mental health and its relationship with the Quranic Mental Health concept. David Tracy's cultural-hermeneutic theory was used to understand how the Salawat community reaches good mental health in dealing with pandemics. It discusses the Quranic Mental Health from the perspective of hermeneutic and culture, examines links with psychological concepts such as religious phenomenon, and describes preliminary empirical evidence related to the mental construct. It has potentially valuable implications for researchers and clinicians interested in Islamic psychology.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2028750
Nikki Kiyimba, R. Anderson
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the notion of universality by critically exploring the concepts of trauma and post-traumatic growth from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the indigenous Māori model of wellbeing “Te Whare Tapa Whā”, the inter-relationships between family relationships, physical wellbeing, mental and emotional health, and spirituality are examined as a holistic model. Spirituality is a key component of this holistic approach and arguably an inseparable aspect of holistic wellness and can be defined as “a broad universal construct associated with individuals’ ways of making meaning of their lives and the acknowledgment of the presence of a higher being”. Within the cultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand, we make a case for the value of holistic interventions to support people who have experienced trauma that prioritise spirituality alongside other aspects of wellbeing.
摘要本文从文化的角度，通过批判性地探讨创伤和创伤后成长的概念，探讨了普遍性的概念。根据土著毛利人的幸福模式“Te Whare Tapa Whā”，将家庭关系、身体幸福、心理和情感健康以及精神之间的相互关系作为一个整体模式进行了研究。精神是这种整体方法的关键组成部分，可以说是整体健康不可分割的一个方面，可以定义为“一种广泛的普遍结构，与个人创造生活意义的方式和对更高存在的承认有关”。在新西兰奥特亚的文化背景下，我们证明了整体干预的价值，以支持经历过创伤的人，将精神与幸福的其他方面放在首位。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2033710
J. Wilt, Julie J. Exline
ABSTRACT We investigated how gratitude to God (GTG) functions within the context of negative events. Specifically, we sought to locate the position of GTG within the affective circumplex and to test whether GTG relates to higher levels of perceived closeness to God (PCTG). In a cross-sectional study, participants (N = 142 U.S. undergraduate believers in God) completed self-report measures pertaining to a negative event (and positive event, for comparison purposes). Supporting preregistered hypotheses, (a) GTG was located in the pleasant half of the affective circumplex (in the activated quadrant for the negative event and the deactivated quadrant for the positive event), and (b) GTG associated with higher levels of PCTG uniquely from affect, general gratitude, and the tendency to draw close to God when stressed (for both events). These results contribute to nascent knowledge about GTG and underscore the potential importance of GTG in the process of growing spiritually through adversity..
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2024158
J. Collicutt
ABSTRACT John Ruskin was a Victorian polymath who developed severe mental health problems from late middle age. This paper focuses on one of his many areas of interest and expertise, visual aesthetics. It traces the relationship between his theories and practices in this area and the nature of his mental health condition, which was dominated by visual symptoms. It argues that Ruskin’s aesthetic theory is part of a broader spiritual visionary quest, firmly framed within the Christian theological tradition, and that it valorises certain habits of perception and attention that are now recognised to be a feature of cognition in psychosis. It suggests that there is continuity, if not a causal relationship, between Ruskin’s lifelong adoption of these practices and the psychological symptoms he displayed as his (probably neuropsychiatric) illness progressed.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2012372
K. Loewenthal, C. Lewis, S. Dein
The experience of severe trauma shatters everyday assumptions about the world and calls for the provision of meaning. Religious and spiritual (R/S) frameworks may facilitate such meaning-making (Park & Ai, 2006), reinterpretation of negative events through a sacred lens and provide resources for coping in the wake of adversity. Initially, religious/spiritual coping was divided into two categories: positive entailing support and meaning from God and negative reflecting questioning, doubt and conflict. The former was generally associated with enhanced mental health indices, while the latter may be detrimental to mental health and may result in diminishing faith (Pargament, 1997). However, in recent years, researchers have used the term “religious/spiritual struggles” in place of negative religious/spiritual coping to make it clearer that the latter form of coping does not necessarily have negative implications (see Pargament & Exline, 2022 for review). How are R/S feelings involved in responding to trauma? Many or all readers will be familiar with Allport’s (1950) classic study of World War II combat veterans, and few would argue with his suggestions that some survivors suffered a loss of faith, while others reported the development of a more mature faith. The papers in this Special Issue of Mental Health, Religion & Culture focus on religious/coping in the context of adverse, major life stressors, and the effects of religious/spiritual coping on measures of well-being and distress, including PTSD. PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) has only relatively recently been identified as a result of trauma. The condition was formally recognised by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1980 when PTSD was added to the anxiety disorders in the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). Prior to this, a wide range of synonyms was used to identify the effects of trauma: shock, combat fatigue, complete exhaustion, shattered, traumatised. An online thesaurus offers 18 synonyms for PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder (https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/posttraumatic%20stress%20disorder). PTSD is notoriously persistent and disabling, is now recognised as a significant causal factor in suicide and substance abuse, and probably other disorders. It is usually characterised by intrusive thoughts and often sleep disturbance, and mood and behaviour disturbance. Religious devotees and professionals have struggled to identify and employ various religious/spiritual (R/S) coping strategies to deal with trauma (Pargament, 1997). Some of these feature in the articles in this special issue, as do some R/S outcomes. There are 12 articles which we organise roughly into three groups (with some overlaps): 1. R/S coping methods, 2. The effects of R/S coping on nonR/S factors, and 3. The effects of coping on R/S outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2027900
S. Dein
ABSTRACT The experience of trauma presents significant challenges to the maintenance of religious faith. Here, we document the role of theodicy in “protecting” religious belief. We argue that the maintenance of religious faith is dependent on the availability of a theodicy framework which can assimilate evil. After defining the concept of theodicy, we critically overview those few studies looking at the relationships among trauma, theodicy, and religious belief. We then analyse the narratives of concentration camp inmates documenting their views pertaining to God and their suffering.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.1884211
Tomos G. ap Sion, Leslie J. Francis
ABSTRACT This study draws on psychological type theory that has its origins in the work of Carl Jung to explore the psychological profile of Salvation Army officers serving within the UK. Data provided on the Francis Psychological Type Scales by 269 female officers and by 165 male officers draw attention to the distinctive psychological characteristics of these officers and to the ways in which they differ from the population of the UK as a whole. The female officers show clear preference for introversion (68%), sensing (75%), feeling (66%), and judging (86%). The male officers show clear preference for introversion (76%), sensing (62%), thinking (60%), and judging (86%). This study discusses the strengths brought to active ministry by these psychological characteristics, but also draws attention to the weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2029380
N. Akhtar, Leslie J. Francis, Ursula Mckenna, S. Hasan
ABSTRACT This paper examines the psychometric properties of the Short Dark Tetrad, presented for online administration, among a sample of 370 young adults between the ages of 18 and 26 who were born in the Punjab and who had lived there since their birth. With the omission of one item from each of the four scales (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism) the clear four factor structure was recovered with cross-loadings remaining on four items. All four scales recorded acceptable or good levels of internal consistency reliability (alpha). This Shorter Dark Tetrad (SD4-MS) is commended for further use within predominantly Muslim societies.
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