In 1907 Freud (1941) was the first to note a similarity between religious and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, which he emphasized as the individual’s “private religion.” Other investigators (Akhtar et al., 1975) have suggested that obsessions and compulsions are culture-specific, with a crossover to religious behavior. Greenberg and Witztum (Greenberg and Witztum, 1994;Greenberg, 1984) discusse...

Upbringing is a consistent process carried out by society through specific mechanisms and methods to give its members all the cultural elements that shape their identity and maintain their knowledge, attitudes, values, standards, and perceptive models, affecting their behaviour in all walks of life (Mohsin, Mustafa, in Arabic, 1997). Moreover, upbringing involves developing a person’s self-imag...

Although moral reasoning is able to account for some of the variability in moral behavior, much remains unexplained. Recently, a number of components of personality have been proposed as bridging the gap between moral reasoning and moral behavior. The present study investigates the role that identity integration (the extent to which one’s moral values have become integrated into identity) and r...

training and upbringing tradition and educational system in iran because of its religious content, at first has accentuated to moral and intellectual foundations and then has recommended to teaching of since and art. calligraphy is one of art branches that its education system has formed in the shine of religious meanings. doubtless, this tradition has caused to the formation of properties and ...

During 3 months in 2004, 38 recent referrals to a Community Mental Health Clinic in North Jerusalem, a substantially Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, were evaluated by the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue. This questionnaire, which includes a 13-item scale measuring stigma towards mental illness, was adapted and translated into Hebrew. Patients with a more religious upbringing expressed...

Child’s personality development is still being a significant component of Ukrainian society. We should pay attention to the emotional, physical and intellectual children, which vital for their future. In order achieve an objectivity, this research focused on analyzing ‘family phenomenon’, including religious, moral categories historical facts. The purpose investigate impact upbringing education...

Symbols represent information we have previously learned or experienced, but they can also serve to encourage thoughts and behaviors that are consistent with this knowledge/experience in order to maintain social cohesion (Guthrie, 1996). Pictures (e.g., American Red Cross image) representing moral rules (e.g., ‘save lives’) have been shown to influence moral decisions (Broeders, van den Box, Mu...

We argue that a central function of religious attendance in the contemporary U.S. is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy. Although religious attendance is correlated with many demographic, personality, moral, and behavioral variables, we propose that sexual and family variables are at the core of many of these relationships. Numerous researchers have assumed that religious s...