上帝,我能放弃吗?论中国佛教徒与道家的涉神思想对任务坚持的不同影响

IF 1.7 2区 哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Heng Li
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先前的研究表明,宗教虔诚度和参与信仰实践与增加的任务持久性有关。然而,在本研究中,我们试图挑战这一长期存在的假设,通过证明启动与上帝相关的概念实际上可以导致道教(一个强调被动、冷静和不作为的宗教)中任务持久性的降低。为了探究这一理论视角,我们进行了两项实验研究,使用不同的任务持久性行为测量(字谜任务和镜像追踪任务)和不同的宗教启动技术(乱句任务和宗教阅读任务)。在研究1中,当中国道教徒首先被提醒上帝,然后完成一项旨在衡量语言能力成熟程度的不可解字谜任务时,他们表现出较低的任务持久性。在研究2中,我们发现接触与上帝相关的启动项的道教参与者在描摹困难的几何图形上花费的时间较少,表明任务持久性较低。在两项研究中,我们重复了之前的发现,即接触上帝的形象会增加中国佛教徒的任务持久性,他们属于非亚伯拉罕宗教群体。这些结果提供了第一个实验证据,证明激活对上帝的思考可能对不同宗教成员的任务持久性有不同的影响。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。数据可得性声明支持本研究结果的数据可根据通讯作者的合理要求获得。注1我们在主要分析中使用了变换后的方法。当我们使用原始时间时,所有结果仍然显著我们在主要分析中使用了变换后的方法。当我们使用原始时间时,所有结果仍然很重要。
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God, Can I Give Up?: The Diverging Effects of God-Related Thoughts on Task Persistence in Chinese Buddhists and Taoists
ABSTRACTPrevious research has indicated that religiosity and engagement in faith practices are associated with increased task persistence. However, in this study, we sought to challenge this long-standing assumption by demonstrating that priming God-related concepts can actually lead to reduced task persistence in Taoism, a religion emphasizing passivity, calmness, and inaction. To investigate this theoretical perspective, we conducted two experimental studies using different behavioral measures of task persistence (anagram task and mirror-tracing task) and diverse religious priming techniques (the scrambled-sentence task and religious reading task). In Study 1, when Chinese Taoists were first reminded of God and then completed an unsolvable anagram task purported to measure the maturation of verbal abilities, they exhibited lower levels of task persistence than those in the neutral prime condition. In Study 2, we found that Taoist participants exposed to God-related primes spent less time on tracing a difficult geometric figures, indicating lower levels of task persistence. Across two studies, we replicated prior findings that exposure to God representations increased task persistence in Chinese Buddhists, who belong to a non-Abraham religious group. These results provided the first experimental evidence that activating thoughts of God may have divergent effects on task persistence in members of different religions. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.Notes1 We used transformed means in our main analyses. All the results remained significant when we used the raw times.2 We used transformed means in our main analyses. All the results remained significant when we used the raw times.
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期刊介绍: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.
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