{"title":"Validation of an implicit instrument to assess God representations. Part 2: Associations between implicit and explicit measures of God representations and object-relational functioning","authors":"H. P. Stulp, G. Glas, Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2019.1569490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2019.1569490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Results about associations between God representations and well-being/mental health can be questioned because they are predominantly based on studies with self-report instruments. There are no well-validated implicit measures of God representations. Therefore we developed the Apperception Test for God Representations (ATGR). In a clinical (n = 75) and a nonclinical (n = 71) sample, we found patterns of associations of scales of the ATGR and of an explicit God representation measure with implicit and explicit measures of object-relational functioning that undergirded the validity of most ATGR scales. Differences in patterns of associations between patients and nonpatients could theoretically be explained by the concept mentalization.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"89 1","pages":"252 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74643411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. C. Rowell, Craig S. Cashwell, Richard Zambrowicz
{"title":"Calm in the storm: The influence of spirituality, dispositional forgiveness, and God concept on anxiety","authors":"P. C. Rowell, Craig S. Cashwell, Richard Zambrowicz","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2019.1593916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2019.1593916","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Anxiety is a ubiquitous problem in our society from which many suffer. The purpose of this study was to consider how spirituality, dispositional forgiveness, and God concept together informed an individual’s level of anxiety. Results suggested that forgiveness had a significant influence on anxiety and that the shared variance between God concept and forgiveness may warrant future study. Implications for therapists are provided.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"37 1","pages":"240 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86733811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using mental health first aid to promote mental health in churches","authors":"J. Costello, Krystal Hays, A. Gámez","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1771234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1771234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an evidence-based intervention to increase knowledge about mental illness and self-efficacy in addressing mental health problems. This pilot study explored the implementation of MHFA for members and leaders of Christian church congregations. Twenty-seven church members completed the 8-hour manualized training. A preintervention and postintervention survey design was used, and results revealed significant improvement in mean scores for knowledge, beliefs, self-efficacy, and stigma following the training. These results suggest that MHFA is a promising intervention for congregants and may help address an existing gap in supportive services for individuals with mental and emotional health problems.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"381 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88260184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of forgiveness as a coping response to intimate partner stress","authors":"T. L. Gall, Cynthia Bilodeau","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1745725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1745725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores the interrelationship between forgiveness and general, spiritual, and interpersonal coping within the context of intimate partner stress. A total of 116 adults responded to an online survey on measures of forgiveness, general, spiritual and interpersonal coping, and well-being. Individuals who engage in forgiveness are more likely to take the perspective of their partner, positively reframe their stress, and turn to spiritual coping for support. Forgiveness is related to self-esteem, hope, positive affect, couple adjustment, and lower negative affect. Forgiveness mediates the relationship between coping and well-being and so may function as a protective mechanism within the context of couple stress.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"2 1","pages":"319 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86029089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compassionate love and dispositional forgiveness: does compassionate love predict dispositional forgiveness?","authors":"J. Kim, R. Enright, L. Wong","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1739598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1739598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the conceptual link between love and forgiveness, empirical evidence for the relationship between the two is scarce. Also, controversy exists surrounding the use of a self-evaluated forgiveness tendency as a measure of dispositional forgiveness. One hundred adults filled out an online survey to provide the data for this study. Compassionate love, commitment to forgiveness, and valuing forgiveness were moderately associated with dispositional forgiveness. Compassionate love predicted dispositional forgiveness over and above all other measures. The feasibility of measuring dispositional forgiveness accounting for the occurrences of actual transgressions and the presence of compassionate love among those showing forgivingness are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"20 1","pages":"95 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87263414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Crabtree, Chance A. Bell, David A. Rupert, Steven J. Sandage, N. Devor, George S. Stavros
{"title":"Humility, differentiation of self, and clinical training in spiritual and religious competence","authors":"S. Crabtree, Chance A. Bell, David A. Rupert, Steven J. Sandage, N. Devor, George S. Stavros","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1737627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1737627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Spiritual and religious (S/R) competence is an important yet under-studied area of clinical multicultural competence. In a sample of clinicians who attended seminars on a specific S/R group training model, we examined the roles of humility and differentiation of self (DoS) in predicting S/R attitudes and S/R self-efficacy, as well as perceived barriers to implementing this training model in clinical settings. DoS mediated the relationship between humility and S/R self-efficacy, but not between humility and S/R attitudes. Further, four barriers emerged to implementing the presented training model. A discussion of the findings and implications for training are included.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"24 1","pages":"342 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76975522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Sadeghi habibabad, J. MahdiNejad, H. Azemati, P. Matracchi
{"title":"Examination of the psychological impact and brainwaves functioning of the users of buildings and environments built based on promoting relaxation and spiritual sense","authors":"Ali Sadeghi habibabad, J. MahdiNejad, H. Azemati, P. Matracchi","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1738311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1738311","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Religious buildings have a significant role in Muslims’ culture. The architects have developed some features in designing such buildings that create a unique sense of comfort and spiritual state in humans. By more precise examination of the spiritual sense whose results are in mental health for the audience, the paper tried to analyze the impact of buildings with religious characteristics on the brain functioning of the people using such buildings. The results showed that seeing the interior of the mosque building strongly affects the brainwaves associated with peace and spiritual sense that proves “The relaxation and spiritual sense.”","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"55 1","pages":"363 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87230966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-dimensional exploration of spirituality to empathy","authors":"C. Stewart, Shawn A. Lawrence","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1732266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1732266","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Empathy is a well-established factor for a successful therapeutic relationship. Similarly, spirituality has demonstrated significance for many clinical outcomes. Although available evidence generally supports a relationship between spirituality and empathy, there is a dearth of empirical information examining the relationship from a multidimensional perspective. The Expressions of Spirituality Inventory-Revised (ESI-R) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) were used with a sample of both students and practitioners. Testing demonstrated a significant difference between students and practitioners for dimensions of both spirituality and empathy. Results confirmed that two ESI-R dimensions produced significant regression models with several IRI dimensions for both students and practitioners.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"295 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88805478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The poetry of forgiveness: poetic inquiry, forgiveness and autoethnography in the context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) recovery","authors":"I. J. Gildea","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1729290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1729290","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual wounding caused by childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the ways in which one dimension of the trauma impacts another is extremely complex. Accordingly, restorative healing practices call for survivor-centered approaches to being with and healing from the embodied wounding and attachment trauma that results from sexual violence. Developing a practice of poetic inquiry, this article suggests, is one such means of contributing to and cultivating practices that seek to center and prioritize the experience of the survivor, especially as concerns the survivor’s journey through forgiveness.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"77 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73792115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. P. Stulp, J. Koelen, G. Glas, Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe
{"title":"Validation of the apperception test God representations, an implicit measure to assess God representations. Part 3: associations between implicit and explicit measures of God representations and self-reported level of personality functioning","authors":"H. P. Stulp, J. Koelen, G. Glas, Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2019.1700475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2019.1700475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research with self-report measures of God representations suggests an association with personality pathology. However, according to object-relations theory, God representations are predominantly implicit. This observational study aimed at validating the implicit Apperception Test God Representations (ATGR). In a group of 74 patients with personality pathology and a group of 71 non-patients, correlations of measures of self-reported personality functioning with the implicit ATGR were compared with correlations with the explicit Questionnaire God Representations (QGR). Only in the clinical group, results corroborated the validity of three ATGR main scales by showing significant correlations with mostly nearly medium effect sizes.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"21 1","pages":"197 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73613493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}