Strength of Religious Faith in the Portuguese Catholic Elderly

Amado, Nuno; Diniz, António M.

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“…Believers are also more committed to values. According to Amado and Diniz (2017) and Leite et al (2020), age is positively correlated with the importance attributed to religion and its practice.…”

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Human Values and Religion: Evidence from the European Social Survey

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Values are guiding constructs of social action that connote some actions as desirable, undesirable, acceptable, and unacceptable, containing a normative moral/ethical component, and constituting a guide for actions, attitudes, and objectives for which the human being strives. The role of religion in the development of moral and ideal behaviors is a subject of concern and object of theoretical and empirical debate in various sciences. Analyzing sociodemographic and religious variables, the present work aimed to understand the contribution of religious variables to the explanation of Schwartz’s human values and to identify an explanatory model of second-order values, i.e., self-transcendence, conservation, self-promotion, and openness to change. This study was carried out with a representative sample of the Portuguese population, consisting of 1270 participants from the European Social Survey (ESS), Round 8. Benevolence (as human motivational value) and self-transcendence (as a second-order value) were found to be the most prevalent human values among respondents, with the female gender being the one with the greatest religious identity, the highest frequency of religious practices, and valuing self-transcendence and conservation the most. Older participants had a more frequent practice and a higher religious identity than younger ones, with age negatively correlating with conservation and positively with openness to change. It was concluded that age, religious identity, and an item of religious practice contribute to explain 13.9% of the conservation variance. It was also found that age and religious practice are the variables that significantly contribute to explain 12.2% of the variance of openness to change. Despite the associations between psychological variables (values) and religious ones, it can be concluded that religious variables contribute very moderately to explain human values. The results obtained in this study raised some important issues, namely, if these weakly related themes, i.e., religiosity and human values, are the expression of people belief without belonging.

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“…A population is defined as a group of distinct constituents that can be either limited or limitless and immeasurable (Dahabreh & Hernán, 2019). According to Diniz and Amado [23], a population encompasses the entire collection of objects or items that are of interest for investigation. Diniz and Amado [23] further characterize a population as a gathering of individuals, cases, or things with observable attributes.…”

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“…According to Diniz and Amado [23], a population encompasses the entire collection of objects or items that are of interest for investigation. Diniz and Amado [23] further characterize a population as a gathering of individuals, cases, or things with observable attributes. Hazzi and Maldaon [24] describe a population as comprising individuals, organizations, objects, events, and even communities or groupings of items under study.…”

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Influence of Knowledge Acquisition Practices on the Performance of County Development Projects in Meru County Government

Mukiira,

Obuba

2023

AJEBA

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Public infrastructure projects have progressed at a moderate rate since independence. The information provided by the Kenyan government in 2014 regarding their vision for 2030, aiming to make Kenya an internationally competitive and prosperous nation, shows that the slow progress in implementing public infrastructure projects has resulted in inadequate road networks, underdeveloped public facilities, a lack of connectivity between rural areas and industrial hubs, insufficient measures to mitigate challenges in agricultural regions, and a decline in formerly thriving industries. County governments face a significant challenge in effectively utilizing knowledge management within project management to maximize their outcomes. This research aimed to ascertain whether knowledge acquisition practices influences performance of county development projects in Meru County Government. The research was conducted in a descriptive manner. It targeted a total of 139 respondents from nine Sub-counties in Meru County, including members of county assemblies (MCAs), sub-county departmental heads, project management committee members, and county chief officers. A sample of 103 individuals was selected from the population to participate in the survey. Structured questionnaires were used as the primary research tool to collect data from the population. The responses were coded and categorized accordingly. The data collected was inputted into SPSS 27.0 and MS Excel for further computational analysis. The study revealed a strong correlation coefficient, with an R value of 0.897, indicating a high level of correlation between the variables. The adjusted R-squared value, which was 0.801, suggested that variations in county development projects were significantly influenced by the independent variable. The study's findings suggest that knowledge acquisition had a positive impact on the performance of the county development projects in Meru County. To enhance this positive influence, the study recommends that the public service engage with technical experts in specific fields for knowledge creation, emphasize the value of employees, organize formal training sessions for new knowledge creation, plan seminars for knowledge sharing, and ensure that staff members are trained in diverse tasks to facilitate information exchange. Furthermore, it is recommended that training programs encompass a wide range of tasks and duties to promote knowledge sharing among staff.

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Policies and practices in educational gerontology in mainland China

2022

Educational Gerontology

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Strength of Religious Faith in the Portuguese Catholic Elderly

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Human Values and Religion: Evidence from the European Social Survey

Human Values and Religion: Evidence from the European Social Survey

Influence of Knowledge Acquisition Practices on the Performance of County Development Projects in Meru County Government

Policies and practices in educational gerontology in mainland China

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