The purpose of the current study was to examine attitudes Nigerians towards physically challenged persons. population constituted civil servants. A total two hundred and twenty participants comprising males females were randomly selected from Enugu Kogi states service as research participants. Data for generated using three instruments, including 24-item Scale Attitude Toward Disabled Persons (...

Religion plays a significant role in the life of individuals in any society. Its role as a moral builder has been variously acknowledged. This study examines the role of religion in adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviour in Nigeria. The study was conducted in two national universities in Nigeria with student population of more than 40,000. The institutions are located in the eastern and west...

In this paper, we examine the question of whether religion—affiliation, beliefs, and practice—provides a source of marital strength and stability in the lives of American couples. Unlike most previous studies, we focus on religion and marital quality among 433 lowincome married couples with co-residential minor children, using recently collected survey data on both spouses sampled in the Marita...

Baptists trace their origins to early seventeenthcentury English Puritanism with the baptism by immersion of Thomas Helwys and John Smyth in Holland in 1607. Baptists and other dissenters believed the English Reformation had failed to achieve sufficient moral purity and doctrinal integrity. They also resisted the efforts of the Crown to impose uniform religious beliefs and practices through the...

OBJECTIVE To track within-individual change during late life in the sense of personal control and God-mediated control (the belief that one can work collaboratively with God to achieve one's goals and exercise control over life events) and to evaluate the hypothesis that this element of religion is related to declining personal control. METHOD A longitudinal survey representative of older Whi...

background: gender identity disorder and its treatment with sex reassignment surgery is a profound experience, which can affect the mental, interpersonal, social and religious aspects of one’s life.   methods: this was a qualitative content analysis study focusing on the various dimensions of the experiences of seven patients suffering from gender identity disorder in a female-to-male subgroup....

Background and Objectives: Despite the large number of research and measures focusing on substance abuse tendency in Iran, the identification of factors preventing drug addiction and tendency is still a matter of fundamental importance. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to examine the mediating role of self-control in the effectiveness of religious beliefs on tendency to addiction...