The current study examined associations among religious and ethnic identity exploration commitment, psychological well-being (PWB) 683 Latinx emerging adults. A subset of data collected in the Multi-Site University Study Identity Culture was analyzed, focusing on three measures: (a) Multigroup Ethnic Measure (MEIM), (b) Religious (adapted from MEIM), (c) Scales Psychological Well-Being–Short Fo...

Researchers studying the small yet significant number (8–10 percent) of U.S. multiracial/ethnic congregations have argued that formal organizational commitment, the development of inclusive worship styles, and the formation of small racially/ethnically mixed groups appear to be significant factors in constructing and maintaining congregational diversity. Drawing from four years of field studies...

Religiosity and Consequentialist Moral Thinking 2 Three studies demonstrated that the moral judgments of religious individuals and political conservatives are highly insensitive to consequentialist (i.e., outcome-based) considerations. In Study 1, both religiosity and political conservatism predicted a resistance towards consequentialist thinking concerning a range of transgressive acts, indepe...

An explosion of recent research suggests that religious beliefs and behaviors are universal, arise from deep-seated cognitive mechanisms, and were favored by natural selection over human evolutionary history. However, if a propensity towards religious beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of human brains (as both by-product theorists and adaptationists agree), and/or an important ingredient o...

In the 1960s in London, England, Cicely Saunders introduced a new way of treating the terminally ill, which she called “hospice care.” Saunders, a trained nurse, social worker, and medical doctor, held that humans should be able to die with dignity and at peace. This viewpoint originated from her medical experience as well as her religious commitment as a Christian. The religious basis of hospi...

While the field of empirical study on religion and spirituality in relation to mental health has rapidly expanded over the past decade, little is known about underlying dimensions of spirituality cross-culturally conceived. We aimed to bridge this gap by inductively deriving potential universal dimensions of spirituality through a large-scale, multi-national data collection, and examining the r...

This paper is an attempt to study the Professional commitment and social factors affecting it. This article is based on a survey, from 230 respondents (37.4 percent were males and 60.9 percent females). The average age was 35 years old and the average salary was 471 $. Among them, 31.5 percent were single and 68.5 percent were married. The average work experience is 10.5 years and classes are ...

Stimulated by the finding (Kawachi et al., 1997) that social capital in communities may mediate the relationship between income inequality and health status, this article describes relationships between individual-level elements of social capital--trust, commitment and identity in the social-psychological dimension; participation in clubs and associations and civic participation in the action d...

background and aim: despite growing body of literature regarding marital adjustment of infertile women, to our knowledge, there is no study to address the role of religious and spiritual beliefs in adjusting marital relationships in infertile women. considering the significance of marital cohesiveness and commitment in the long and stressful journey of infertile women, this study was designed t...