Structural Relations Among Spirituality, Religiosity, and Thriving in Adolescence

Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Gestsdóttir, Steinunn; Anderson, Pamela M.; Eye, Alexander von; Almerigi, Jason B.; Lerner, Richard M.

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“…This finding is consistent with previous research, which demonstrates that religiosity promotes positive development among adolescents and is also related to the wellbeing of African-American adults (Levin & Taylor, 1998). Further, this study builds on the limited existing research supporting the link between religiosity and thriving (Dowling et al, 2004). Religiosity is also significantly and directly related to religious support in this study, indicating that youth who engage in religious services and activities regularly are more likely to report support from God, church members, and church leaders.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Dowling et al (2004) examined data from a national sample of predominantly European American youth and found a direct link between religiosity and thriving. Additionally, the relationship between moral outcomes-conceptualized as empathic concern, perspective taking, and altruism-and religious involvement is mediated by relationships with adults, parents, and peers in church .…”

Section: Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Thriving Among African‐American Adolescents: Religiosity, Religious Support, and Communalism

Gooden

McMahon

2016

American J of Comm Psychol

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While research has identified some positive factors in the lives of African-American adolescents, there is limited, yet growing, empirical research examining how positive factors foster thriving for these youth. Using a positive youth development framework, we examined naturally occurring factors that promote thriving among African-American adolescents. This cross-sectional study included 152 youth who were surveyed at five Black churches in a large Midwestern city. Using MPlus, the structural regression model results revealed support for a model that demonstrated religiosity, religious support, and communalism are significantly and directly related to thriving among African-American adolescents. Implications for theory, research and practice are discussed. Moving from a deficit lens to a strengths-based approach can facilitate understanding of developmental processes and provide a foundation for supporting and enhancing positive outcomes among African-American adolescents.

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Thriving Among African‐American Adolescents: Religiosity, Religious Support, and Communalism

Gooden

McMahon

2016

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Some scholars also posit that spirituality and religiosity should be separated in general (e.g. Dowling et al, 2004) and in the business context (e.g. Ayranci & Semercioz, 2011).…”

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A Research on the Relationship between Top Managers’ Intelligence and Their Ideas about Business Process Reengineering: Consideration of Emotionality and Spirituality

Ayranci¹,

Ayrancı²

2015

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With its dramatic boosts to effectiveness and efficiency, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a crucial tool for business success, thus countless businesses in various industries are inspired to get its benefits. Though these benefits are heavily related to technical matters such as cost, speed and quality; there is also a human side associated with BPR. This study is interested in an odd dimension of this human side: top managers' emotional and spiritual intelligence. More precisely, top managers' emotional and spiritual intelligences are believed to be related with their ideas about the targets and critical success factors of BPR. This study not only scrutinizes this belief, but also fills in a great gap as the literature does not offer a similar research. The operationalization stage of the study includes data from top managers of businesses in İkitelli Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) and the findings clearly point out that top managers' spiritual intelligence is strongly and positively related with their ideas about BPR whereas there is no connection between their emotional capabilities and their mentioned ideas.

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“…In his review of approximately 30 multi-item measures, he identified very few published measures that were specifically developed for school-aged children (7-11 years). The Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale for Children (primary school age; [22]), Feeling Good Living Life Spiritual Well Being Questionnaire (5-12 years; [20]), Spiritual and Religious Thriving in Adolescents (9-15 years; [23]), and the Benefit Finding Scale for Children (7-18 years; [24]) are all published scales that have been subjected to factor analysis with child populations.…”

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Children’s Spiritual Lives: The Development of a Children’s Spirituality Measure

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Abstract:Previous researchers who have studied children's spirituality have often used narrow measures that do not account for the rich spiritual experiences of children within a multi-faith context. In the current study, we describe the initial stages of development of a children's spirituality measure, in which items were derived from children's spiritual narratives. An exploratory factor analysis of the items revealed three main factors, including Comfort (Factor 1), Omnipresence (Factor 2), and Duality (Factor 3). As rated by their parents, children from families that were more spiritual and religious had higher scores on the newly-developed measure. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

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Structural Relations Among Spirituality, Religiosity, and Thriving in Adolescence

Cited by 119 publications

References 9 publications

Thriving Among African‐American Adolescents: Religiosity, Religious Support, and Communalism

Thriving Among African‐American Adolescents: Religiosity, Religious Support, and Communalism

A Research on the Relationship between Top Managers’ Intelligence and Their Ideas about Business Process Reengineering: Consideration of Emotionality and Spirituality

Children’s Spiritual Lives: The Development of a Children’s Spirituality Measure

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