Pub Date : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2023487
M. Mesri, M. Safara, H. Koohestani, N. Baghcheghi
ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic has triggered serious psychological problems mainly in the front-line healthcare staff. The aim of this study was to examine the predictive role of spiritual health and resilience in mental distress of nurses in COVID-19 wards in Iran. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 91 nurses working in COVID-19 wards in 2020. The results showed that 23.1% of nurses had mental distress. In addition, the correlation coefficient showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between spiritual health (r = −.22, p < .01) and resilience (r = −.34, p < .01) with mental distress. The regression results indicated that spiritual health and resilience predicted 16% of the variation in mental distress (p < .05). Spiritual health and resilience are important constructs of mental distress in nurses and significantly predict and elaborate parts of changes in mental distress. Thus, mental health in nurses can be improved by improving the spiritual aspect and resilience in nurses.
新冠肺炎大流行引发了一线医护人员严重的心理问题。本研究的目的是研究精神健康和恢复能力在伊朗COVID-19病房护士精神痛苦中的预测作用。对2020年在COVID-19病房工作的91名护士进行描述性横断面研究。结果显示，23.1%的护士存在精神困扰。此外，相关系数显示精神健康与心理健康之间存在显著负相关关系(r = -。22, p < 0.01)和弹性(r =−。34, p < 0.01)。回归结果显示，精神健康和心理弹性可预测16%的精神痛苦变异(p < 0.05)。精神健康和恢复力是护士精神痛苦的重要构式，对护士精神痛苦的变化具有重要的预测和阐述作用。因此，可以通过提高护士的精神方面和弹性来改善护士的心理健康。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2045264
Laura Upenieks
ABSTRACT Achieving a sense of life meaning has been proposed as an evolutionary adaptation that promotes the human need for self-actualisation. This study explores how various dimensions of religiosity are associated with life purpose during emerging adulthood, a stage of the life course where religious decline and the search for meaning and purpose intersect. Prior studies on this topic, however, have typically not accounted for across-time fluctuations in religiosity. Therefore, using two waves of data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) (2005-2008), we consider how changes in religious attendance and perceived closeness with God are associated with changes in life meaning and purpose. Results suggest that consistent or increasing attendance and closeness with God predict greater life purpose, while declines in attendance associate with lower purpose. We discuss possible mechanism that may underlie our findings within the current religious climate of the United States.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2026311
A. Village, Leslie J. Francis
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to test the factorial structure and validity of the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS) in a sample 209 men and women enrolled on a university ministry training course. Confirmatory Factor Analysis supported the five-factor structure of scales measuring introversion-extraversion, sensing-intuition, feeling-thinking, judging-perceiving, and emotional calm-volatility. This showed that it is possible to add the latter scales to those in the parent instrument (the Francis Psychological Type Scales) without destroying its factorial structure. Validity of the orientation and emotional temperament scales was tested among 78 of the original sample who also completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised shortened version (EPQ-RS). There were significant correlations between extraversion scores on the two instruments and between Eysenck neuroticism and FPTETS volatile scores, suggesting these two components of the FPTETS and the two dimensions of the EPQR-S assess similar components of personality in both instruments.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2041584
Leslie J. Francis, A. Village
ABSTRACT The Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) were developed to operationalise psychological type theory in a way appropriate for and accessible to survey-style research, administered either online or offline. For the present study, two samples of adults participating in short courses relevant for Christian ministry (N = 185 and 392) completed the FPTS at least one day after completing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). The data: confirmed the basic factor structure of the FPTS; demonstrated the satisfactory internal consistency reliability of the indices of introversion and extraversion, sensing and intuition, feeling and thinking, judging and perceiving; and supported the concurrent validity of this measure against the MBTI® in terms of both correlations between continuous scale scores and allocation to type categories.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-17DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2022.2037536
C. Lewis, John Hopkins Burgess, Leslie J. Francis
ABSTRACT Preference within the perceiving process (sensing or intuition) is one of the main features within psychological type theory that differentiates clergy serving within different streams of the Christian Church. Previous research has identified a higher proportion of intuitive types among Church of England clergy than among clergy serving within the Free Churches (Baptist, Methodist, Salvation Army). New data from 93 ministers serving within the United Reformed Church suggest that this denomination may occupy a position between the Church of England and other Free Churches, with 55% of male ministers, and 53% of female ministers preferring intuition.
{"title":"Psychological type profile of ministers of word and sacrament within the United Reformed Church (URC)","authors":"C. Lewis, John Hopkins Burgess, Leslie J. Francis","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2022.2037536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2022.2037536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Preference within the perceiving process (sensing or intuition) is one of the main features within psychological type theory that differentiates clergy serving within different streams of the Christian Church. Previous research has identified a higher proportion of intuitive types among Church of England clergy than among clergy serving within the Free Churches (Baptist, Methodist, Salvation Army). New data from 93 ministers serving within the United Reformed Church suggest that this denomination may occupy a position between the Church of England and other Free Churches, with 55% of male ministers, and 53% of female ministers preferring intuition.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"921 - 930"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47704115","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 : 2022-03-31DOI: 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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