Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2148641
Janise S. Parker, Breiana Williams, Amaiya Mauney
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine challenges Black adolescents may experience because of COVID-19 and coping strategies employed to navigate their reported difficulties. The current study used secondary data analysis to understand how Black U.S. adolescents’ positive images of God contributed to their emotional well-being in response to stressors associated with COVID-19. Data from a larger study were extracted from 11 Black adolescents’ (Ages 12–17; 54.5% female) individual interview transcripts; and the research team used an interpretative phenomenology process to analyze the data. Participants’ experiences of God as a (a) Teacher, (b) Powerful Being, and (c) Comforter served as robust contributors to their feelings of strength, hope, assurance, calmness, contentment, and motivation, despite the challenges they encountered. This study presents a culturally responsive approach to understanding and potentially responding to Black adolescents’ mental health needs during the COVID-era.
{"title":"Exploring Black adolescents’ perceptions of God during COVID-19: God images as a source of wellness","authors":"Janise S. Parker, Breiana Williams, Amaiya Mauney","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2148641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2148641","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine challenges Black adolescents may experience because of COVID-19 and coping strategies employed to navigate their reported difficulties. The current study used secondary data analysis to understand how Black U.S. adolescents’ positive images of God contributed to their emotional well-being in response to stressors associated with COVID-19. Data from a larger study were extracted from 11 Black adolescents’ (Ages 12–17; 54.5% female) individual interview transcripts; and the research team used an interpretative phenomenology process to analyze the data. Participants’ experiences of God as a (a) Teacher, (b) Powerful Being, and (c) Comforter served as robust contributors to their feelings of strength, hope, assurance, calmness, contentment, and motivation, despite the challenges they encountered. This study presents a culturally responsive approach to understanding and potentially responding to Black adolescents’ mental health needs during the COVID-era.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"974 - 990"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46835004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2117292
L. Edwards, R. Bretherton, D. M. Gresswell, Rachel Sabin-Farrell
ABSTRACT Clergy have an emotionally taxing role and experience high rates of distress. Clergy are an under-represented group in research, with studies suggesting clergy utilise religious coping skills, and underutilise social support. The aims of this study were to assess psychological distress, coping, and help-seeking in UK clergy, and determine whether religious coping mediates the relationship between role demands and distress. One hundred and sixty one clergy-members completed measures of demands, distress, coping, and help-seeking. Mediation analyses were used to test hypotheses. Clergy reported higher rates of distress than community samples, reported more adaptive coping, and favoured help-seeking from informal sources. Negative religious coping and avoidant coping partially mediated the relationship between demands and distress. Clergy reported similar rates of distress to those in other emotionally demanding roles. Religious coping partially mediated the impact of negative demands, suggesting any intervention should include consideration of religious coping in this group.
{"title":"Psychological distress, coping, and barriers to help-seeking in Christian clergy","authors":"L. Edwards, R. Bretherton, D. M. Gresswell, Rachel Sabin-Farrell","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2117292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2117292","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Clergy have an emotionally taxing role and experience high rates of distress. Clergy are an under-represented group in research, with studies suggesting clergy utilise religious coping skills, and underutilise social support. The aims of this study were to assess psychological distress, coping, and help-seeking in UK clergy, and determine whether religious coping mediates the relationship between role demands and distress. One hundred and sixty one clergy-members completed measures of demands, distress, coping, and help-seeking. Mediation analyses were used to test hypotheses. Clergy reported higher rates of distress than community samples, reported more adaptive coping, and favoured help-seeking from informal sources. Negative religious coping and avoidant coping partially mediated the relationship between demands and distress. Clergy reported similar rates of distress to those in other emotionally demanding roles. Religious coping partially mediated the impact of negative demands, suggesting any intervention should include consideration of religious coping in this group.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"956 - 973"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41845389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2035338
Władysław Chaim
ABSTRACT The present paper makes accessible to an English-speaking readership recent research published in Polish designed to provide and to test a Polish adaptation of the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) and the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS). The process of development involved studies reported among 53 Catholic clerics, 87 Catholic clerics, 119 university students, 134 university students, 240 final grade secondary school students, 133 university students, and 75 university students. The four-factor structure of the FPTS was recovered by confirmatory factor analysis, with 10 items loading on each factor, and producing the following Cronbach alpha coefficients: .81 for Extraversion vs. Introversion, .66 for Sensing vs. Intuition, .77 for Thinking vs. Feeling, and .80 for Judging vs. Perceiving. For the additional ten-item scale of Emotional Temperament (Volatile vs. Calm), α = .75.
{"title":"The Polish adaptation of the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): an overview of recent research","authors":"Władysław Chaim","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2035338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2035338","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present paper makes accessible to an English-speaking readership recent research published in Polish designed to provide and to test a Polish adaptation of the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) and the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS). The process of development involved studies reported among 53 Catholic clerics, 87 Catholic clerics, 119 university students, 134 university students, 240 final grade secondary school students, 133 university students, and 75 university students. The four-factor structure of the FPTS was recovered by confirmatory factor analysis, with 10 items loading on each factor, and producing the following Cronbach alpha coefficients: .81 for Extraversion vs. Introversion, .66 for Sensing vs. Intuition, .77 for Thinking vs. Feeling, and .80 for Judging vs. Perceiving. For the additional ten-item scale of Emotional Temperament (Volatile vs. Calm), α = .75.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"910 - 920"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46271404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2158794
J. B. Lloyd
ABSTRACT Two rival paradigms compete for acceptance as representing objective reality concerning the structure of the human personality: the Five-Factor (Trait) model and the Myers-Briggs (Type) model. In this review, the common features of the two schemes are identified and the points of difference examined. It is concluded that a harmonised scheme could be achieved if both sides gave some ground. The Type community could relinquish its contention that every individual has a clear either-or preference for (for example) Extraversion or Introversion. It could also acknowledge the speculative nature of Type Dynamics. The Trait community could relinquish the value-judgements inherent in its current scheme and accept that (for example) introversion is not merely a deficit of extraversion but a distinct quality with positive potential. Given the many similarities of the two present paradigms, a unified approach would have a good claim to be the best current portrayal of personality.
{"title":"Seeking truth in personality science: reconciling trait theory and psychological type","authors":"J. B. Lloyd","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2158794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2158794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Two rival paradigms compete for acceptance as representing objective reality concerning the structure of the human personality: the Five-Factor (Trait) model and the Myers-Briggs (Type) model. In this review, the common features of the two schemes are identified and the points of difference examined. It is concluded that a harmonised scheme could be achieved if both sides gave some ground. The Type community could relinquish its contention that every individual has a clear either-or preference for (for example) Extraversion or Introversion. It could also acknowledge the speculative nature of Type Dynamics. The Trait community could relinquish the value-judgements inherent in its current scheme and accept that (for example) introversion is not merely a deficit of extraversion but a distinct quality with positive potential. Given the many similarities of the two present paradigms, a unified approach would have a good claim to be the best current portrayal of personality.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"817 - 828"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46557022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.1999400
A. Village, Leslie J. Francis
ABSTRACT The present study was designed to situate the eight scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales within the three dimensional psychological space defined by the abbreviated Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQR-A), drawing on data provided by 2,769 clergy and churchgoing participants. The data support the concurrent validity of the Extraversion and Introversion Scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales against the Eysenck Extraversion Scale. The data also illustrates how all the scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales may be nuanced by correlations with the Eysenckian dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism and with the Eysenckian Lie Scale.
{"title":"Psychological type and the three major dimensions of personality: mapping the relationship between the FPTS and the EPQR-A among clergy and churchgoers","authors":"A. Village, Leslie J. Francis","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2021.1999400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.1999400","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study was designed to situate the eight scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales within the three dimensional psychological space defined by the abbreviated Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQR-A), drawing on data provided by 2,769 clergy and churchgoing participants. The data support the concurrent validity of the Extraversion and Introversion Scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales against the Eysenck Extraversion Scale. The data also illustrates how all the scales of the Francis Psychological Type Scales may be nuanced by correlations with the Eysenckian dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism and with the Eysenckian Lie Scale.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"875 - 883"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42893643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2075333
C. Kaya
ABSTRACT Previous studies investigating psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) provided contradictory results for different populations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the GAD-7 with a sample of Turkish college students. Two hundred thirty-five Turkish university students completed the Turkish version of the GAD-7, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Inventory of Common Problems. Factor analyses did not support one general factor solution of the T-GAD-7. However, a respecified model, after correlating error terms, met the adequate criteria for model fit. Additionally, significant moderate correlations were found for the anxiety scores with perceived stress, academic problems, physical problems, and life satisfaction. The results indicated that college health professionals could benefit from the T-GAD-7 to assess anxiety levels of Turkish college students. Further discussions and implications were provided.
{"title":"Measuring anxiety: reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale and its relationship with academic and mental health outcomes","authors":"C. Kaya","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2075333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2075333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous studies investigating psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) provided contradictory results for different populations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the GAD-7 with a sample of Turkish college students. Two hundred thirty-five Turkish university students completed the Turkish version of the GAD-7, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Inventory of Common Problems. Factor analyses did not support one general factor solution of the T-GAD-7. However, a respecified model, after correlating error terms, met the adequate criteria for model fit. Additionally, significant moderate correlations were found for the anxiety scores with perceived stress, academic problems, physical problems, and life satisfaction. The results indicated that college health professionals could benefit from the T-GAD-7 to assess anxiety levels of Turkish college students. Further discussions and implications were provided.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"60 1","pages":"600 - 611"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79560489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2047912
M. Dadfar, D. Lester, Y. Turan, J. Beshai
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to explore the association between Belief in Day of Judgment (BDJ) and belief in locus of control (LCS) in samples from three nations: Iran, Turkey and the USA. A scale devised by Beshai and Lester to measure Belief in a Day of Judgment (BDJS) and Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale (MLCS) for internal, powerful others, or chance loci of control were administered to 386 students. Age was not associated with BDJ in the American students, while sex was not associated with BDJ for any of the three samples. The Iranian sample had higher scores for internal control, while the Turkish sample had higher scores for BDJ. In addition, belief in an internal locus of control predicted BDJ, but only for the Iranian sample. Thus, there were differences between these three cultures in their mean score for BDJ and LCS and the associations between the scale scores.
{"title":"Belief in a Day of Judgment and locus of control in university students from three nations: Iran, Turkey and the USA","authors":"M. Dadfar, D. Lester, Y. Turan, J. Beshai","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2047912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2047912","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to explore the association between Belief in Day of Judgment (BDJ) and belief in locus of control (LCS) in samples from three nations: Iran, Turkey and the USA. A scale devised by Beshai and Lester to measure Belief in a Day of Judgment (BDJS) and Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale (MLCS) for internal, powerful others, or chance loci of control were administered to 386 students. Age was not associated with BDJ in the American students, while sex was not associated with BDJ for any of the three samples. The Iranian sample had higher scores for internal control, while the Turkish sample had higher scores for BDJ. In addition, belief in an internal locus of control predicted BDJ, but only for the Iranian sample. Thus, there were differences between these three cultures in their mean score for BDJ and LCS and the associations between the scale scores.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"431 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42670842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2009786
A. Abdel-Khalek
ABSTRACT Recent research supports the dual continuua model of mental health, i.e., the integration between the disease model or psychopathology and the psychological model or positive mental health. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate the Mental Wellness and Illness Scale (MWIS) and to explore its association with the Big-Five personality factors. A sample of 1418 Egyptian college students (618 men and 800 women) took part in this study. They responded, in Arabic to the MWIS. It consists of 20 brief items in two subscales (10 for mental health and 10 for mental illness). The scale has acceptable to good internal consistency, and criterion-related validity. Two high-loaded components were extracted and labelled “Mental health” and “Mental illness”. Their inter-correlation was significant but modest. Gender differences were significant: men obtained the higher mean score on mental health, whereas women had the higher mean score on mental illness. The Mental Health Subscale scores were significantly correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, openness conscientiousness (positively), and neuroticism (negatively) for both sexes. The Mental Illness Subscale score was significantly associated with neuroticism (positively) and extraversion (negatively) in both men and women. The MWIS has Arabic and English equivalent versions. Based on its good psychometric characteristics, the MWIS is recommended to assess the dual continuum model of mental health.
{"title":"The development and validation of the Mental Wellness and Illness Scale (MWIS) and its relation to the Big-Five personality factors","authors":"A. Abdel-Khalek","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2021.2009786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.2009786","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent research supports the dual continuua model of mental health, i.e., the integration between the disease model or psychopathology and the psychological model or positive mental health. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate the Mental Wellness and Illness Scale (MWIS) and to explore its association with the Big-Five personality factors. A sample of 1418 Egyptian college students (618 men and 800 women) took part in this study. They responded, in Arabic to the MWIS. It consists of 20 brief items in two subscales (10 for mental health and 10 for mental illness). The scale has acceptable to good internal consistency, and criterion-related validity. Two high-loaded components were extracted and labelled “Mental health” and “Mental illness”. Their inter-correlation was significant but modest. Gender differences were significant: men obtained the higher mean score on mental health, whereas women had the higher mean score on mental illness. The Mental Health Subscale scores were significantly correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, openness conscientiousness (positively), and neuroticism (negatively) for both sexes. The Mental Illness Subscale score was significantly associated with neuroticism (positively) and extraversion (negatively) in both men and women. The MWIS has Arabic and English equivalent versions. Based on its good psychometric characteristics, the MWIS is recommended to assess the dual continuum model of mental health.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"127 4 1","pages":"507 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77440141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2031939
Julie Anne C. Bulisig, J. J. B. Aruta
ABSTRACT This study examined 1) the psychometric properties of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) among Filipinos (N = 360) during the COVID-19 crisis, and 2) the moderating role of positive religious coping on the link between perceived stress and mental well-being among community samples in the Philippines. Findings of the confirmatory analysis revealed that the WEMWBS is a psychometrically sound tool in assessing the mental well-being of Filipinos during a global health crisis. Moderation analysis demonstrated that positive religious coping attenuated the negative influence of stress on mental well-being. In particular, the negative impact of perceived stress on mental well-being was significant and strong when the level of positive religious coping was low. Further, the negative impact was significant but weak when positive religious coping was high. The present findings are useful in integrating religious coping into mental health interventions in community samples during a global health crisis.
{"title":"Measurement and predictors of mental well-being in community samples in the Philippines during the COVID-19 crisis: does religious coping matter?","authors":"Julie Anne C. Bulisig, J. J. B. Aruta","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2031939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2031939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined 1) the psychometric properties of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) among Filipinos (N = 360) during the COVID-19 crisis, and 2) the moderating role of positive religious coping on the link between perceived stress and mental well-being among community samples in the Philippines. Findings of the confirmatory analysis revealed that the WEMWBS is a psychometrically sound tool in assessing the mental well-being of Filipinos during a global health crisis. Moderation analysis demonstrated that positive religious coping attenuated the negative influence of stress on mental well-being. In particular, the negative impact of perceived stress on mental well-being was significant and strong when the level of positive religious coping was low. Further, the negative impact was significant but weak when positive religious coping was high. The present findings are useful in integrating religious coping into mental health interventions in community samples during a global health crisis.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"34 1","pages":"612 - 627"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87383966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：