RESEARCH: Sanctification of Parenting: Links to Corporal Punishment and Parental Warmth Among Biblically Conservative and Liberal Mothers

Sanctifying Work: Effects on Satisfaction, Commitment, and Intent to Leave

“…These findings are clearly consistent with previous research (Mahoney, Carels, et al, 2005; Mahoney et al, 1999;Murray-Swank et al, 2007;Murray-Swank et al, 2002;Phillips & Pargament, 2002).…”

“…Murray-Swank, Mahoney, and Pargament (2007) examined the potential positive outcomes associated with parenting behaviors in a sample of 74 mothers.…”

Sanctification of work: assessing the role of spirituality in employment attitudes

“…The MOG subscale (α = .97) and the Sacred Qualities subscale (α = .93) exhibited reliabilities consistent with previous Sanctification research (Mahoney et al, 1999(Mahoney et al, , 2003Murray-Swank et al, 2005). Correlations for the research variables are given in Table 2.…”

“…Unlike religiosity, which tends to measure frequency of behaviours such as church attendance and prayer frequency, sanctification refers to the process by which individuals perceive various aspects of their lives as possessing an ultimate significance (Mahoney et al, 1999). Sanctified objects have several psychologically distinguishing features: they lead to greater investment of time and energy, they elicit preservation, they can produce spiritual emotions, they serve as a unique resource of strength, meaning, and well-being, and their desecration creates strong negative emotions (Mahoney, Pargament, Murray-Swank, & Murray-Swank, 2003). Research has shown that the sanctification of elements of daily functioning such as marriage, parenting, and sexual activity has unique explanatory power in predicting psychological and health outcomes consistent with this theory (Mahoney et al, 1999(Mahoney et al, , 2003Murray-Swank, Pargament, & Mahoney, 2005).…”

Trauma, Religion, and Spirituality: Pathways to Healing

“…Likewise, the attribution of divine significance to aspects of the material world has been associated with greater personal investment, including greater care for one's body (Mahoney et al, 2005a) and the natural environment (Tarakeshwar, Swank, Pargament, & Mahoney, 2001). Furthermore, people who describe relational aspects of life as sacred exhibit similar patterns of increased personal investment in the domains of parenting (Dumas & Nissley-Tsiopinis, 2006;Murray-Swank, Mahoney, & Pargament, 2006;Volling, Mahoney, & Rauer, 2009), marriage (DeMaris, Mahoney, & Pargament, 2010;Lichter & Carmalt, 2009;Mahoney et al, 1999;Mahoney, Pargament, & DeMaris, 2009), and sexuality (Murray-Swank, . The aforementioned list is certainly not exhaustive.…”