To cite this Article Fontaine, Johnny , Luyten, Patrick and Corveleyn, Jozef(2000) 'Tell Me What You Believe and I'll Tell You What You Want: Empirical Evidence for Discriminating Value Patterns of Five Types of Religiosity', International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10: 2, 65 — 84 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1207/S15327582IJPR1002_01 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327582IJP...

Modern society is in dire need of finding and developing ways of mental health self-control that allow people as painlessly as possible to overcome various kinds of stress. Religiosity, as personal quality, which is expressed in the aggregate of certain properties of consciousness, behavior and attitudes can be considered as a factor that certainly affects the social and psychological adaptabil...

Psychology and religiousness/spirituality continue to be perceived as incongruent and incompatible, often resulting in a disconnection and suboptimal level of collaboration between the two fields to the detriment of healthcare. Nevertheless, forgiveness, or an absence of ill will, is a construct central to both mainstream world religion/spirituality and the field of psychology. Understanding an...