THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY ON REHABILITATIONOUTCOMES AMONG TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SURVIVORSbyBRIGID WALDRON-PERRINEDecember 2010Advisor: Lisa. J. Rapport, Ph.D.Major: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury affect millions ofAmericans, many of whom report using religion and spir...

William James proposed a psychological study of religion examining people's religious experiences, and to see in what sense these were good for them. The recent developments of psychology of religion moved far from that initial proposition. In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to religion that renews with that initial stance. After recalling Vygtotsky's core ideas, we suggest t...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review qualitative and quantitative research studies measuring religious and spiritual variables published in American oncology nursing journals from 1990-1999 and the types of measures used. DATA SOURCES All research studies published from 1990-1999 in Oncology Nursing Forum, Cancer Nursing, and the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing. DATA SYNTHESIS A higher percen...

Social psychologists have often followed other scientists in treating religiosity primarily as a set of beliefs held by individuals. But, beliefs are only one facet of this complex and multidimensional construct. The authors argue that social psychology can best contribute to scholarship on religion by being relentlessly social. They begin with a social-functionalist approach in which beliefs, ...

114 A n ongoing issue for the psychology of religion is the complex relationship between religion and psychological adjustment. Psychological adjustment has been described as an umbrella construct with various cognitive and affective dimensions such as life satisfaction, positive affect, happiness, congruence between expected and achieved life goals, absence of symptoms, a positive sense of wel...

J. HENRICH ET AL. (“Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment,” Research Articles, 19 March, p. 1480) have shown that market integration and participation in world religion covary with fairness. The authors suggest that their results support cultural evolution theories and contradict the hypothesis that successful social interactions in largescale societies...