OBJECTIVE The present study explored the role of the emotional experience of God (i.e., positive and negative God images) in the happiness of chronic pain (CP) patients. Framed in the transactional model of stress, we tested a model in which God images would influence happiness partially through its influence on disease interpretation as a mediating mechanism. We expected God images to have bot...

abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematicsat north dakota state university.after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university inpure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv universityin applied mathematics, he held apostdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974).ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of asenior rese...

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...

Religiosity and participation in religious activities have been linked with decreased risky behavior. In the current research, we hypothesized that exposure to the concept of God can actually increase people's willingness to engage in certain types of risks. Across seven studies, reminders of God increased risk taking in nonmoral domains. This effect was mediated by the perceived danger of a ri...

Anthropomorphism is a default strategy for making the unfamiliar familiar, but is it a uniform strategy? Do all dimensions of anthropomorphism “hang together”? We explored this question by involving adults (n = 99) in a speeded property-attribution task in which they decided, as quickly as possible, whether properties of two types— psychological and physiological—could be attributed to God. Par...

I dedicate this thesis to God and my family. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Seung-Kyum Choi for his support and guidance to me with his knowledge throughout my graduate studies and school experience. their time to read and provide their knowledge and expertise in the completion of my Master's thesis. Moreover, I would like to thank my family, especially my fathe...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...