Studien ämnar undersöka sambandet mellan paranormal tro och välbefinnande, något tidigare forskning nedprioriterat för att istället fokusera på vad som predicerar paranormal tro. Forskning tyder på positiva hälsoeffekter av religiös tro, samt ger svaga indikationer på att samma kan gälla andra former av paranormal tro. Studiens frågeställningarna ämnar att undersöka ifall bakgrundsvariabler och dimensioner av paranormal tro relaterar till välbefinnande. Deltagarna bestod av 138 individer och data samlades in via enkäter. En Pearsons korrelationsanalys visade att utbildning samt civilstånd hade positiva samband med samtliga dimensioner av välbefinnande, övriga bakgrundsvariabler uppvisade samband med minst en dimension. Paranormal tro tenderade att korrelera negativt med välbefinnande, mest framträdande i dimensionen fysiskt välbefinnande. En hierarkisk regressionsanalys visade att bakgrundsvariablerna signifikant kunde förklara varians i kriterievariablerna, detsamma gällde dock inte för dimensionerna av paranormal tro. En svaghet med studien gäller val av deltagare, framtida forskning med mer jämförbara urvalsgrupper föreslås.

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which religiosity and spirituality affected daily work practices and leader/follower trust levels in foodservice and nutrition directors and their subordinates. A similar 72-item survey questionnaire was developed for both the directors and employees, which was completed by 129 directors and 530 employees. Both questionnaires contained questions on demographics, religious influences on work practices, trust characteristics, and three validated measures of religiosity: 1) worship service attendance (1=Religiosity Score), 2) influence of spiritual beliefs on daily life, and 3) frequency of prayer (2 + 3=Spirituality Score). Frequency data was gathered for all questions. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson's Correlation were used to assess the relationship of directors' and employees' Religiosity and Spirituality Scores compared to their daily work practices and trust levels. Two-sample t-tests evaluated differences in directors' and employees' perceived trust levels toward each other. Most directors and employees were women and Caucasian. Most of the directors and employees had earned a Master's degree and bachelor's degree, respectively. The religion most frequently reported was Protestant. Data analysis of the Religiosity and Spirituality Scores and demographics showed some differences in ethnic group, gender, age, and education level, although there was no consistently identified trend. Well over one-third of directors (40.3%) and employees (36.3%) attended worship services at least four times the previous month. The more directors and employees attended worship services, the more likely they were to demonstrate specific spiritual actions and attitudes at work. Generally, religiosity and spirituality did not appear to influence perceived trustworthiness in directors and employees. However, both directors and employees were rated as being highly trustworthy by their counterpart(s). Directors and employees tend to over-rate their own trustworthiness when compared to ratings by the opposite discipline. Degree of religiosity and spirituality did not consistently affect the way directors and employees rated each others' trustworthiness though it was related to how they perceived their own trustworthiness. Directors expected that their employees were more committed to their jobs than they actually were.

O presente trabalho possui como objetivos analisar como os professores do Ensino Médio estabelecem a relação entre conhecimento científico e crença religiosa no que diz respeito ao ensino do conceito de evolução biológica, e como esse professor percebe tal relação nos educandos em diferentes contextos de confessionalidade. Quanto à fundamentação teórica, nos alicerçamos na Psicologia histórico-cultural de Vygotsky e no trabalho de Sepulveda e El-Hani (2004), que realiza uma revisão bibliográfica acerca das possíveis relações estabelecidas entre o conhecimento científico e o conhecimento religioso, descrevendo três possibilidades: a tese da incompatibilidade, a tese da independência e do diálogo construtivo entre religião e ciência e a tese da integração dos dois campos de conhecimento em um novo campo interdisciplinar. Utilizamos os pressupostos da Psicologia histórico-cultural com intuito de fundamentar nossas hipóteses no que diz respeito à influência do meio e das vivências nas atitudes e na formação de conceitos científicos dos indivíduos. A obtenção de dados foi feita a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com professores e professoras de escolas confessionais e não confessionais do Estado de São Paulo. Tais dados foram analisados e discutidos utilizando a metodologia de Análise Textual Discursiva. Posteriormente, redigimos metatextos com intuito de formalizar e construir novas reflexões sobre os resultados obtidos. Verificamos inicialmente que, mais do que a confessionalidade da instituição de ensino, o docente possui um papel de protagonismo central no que diz respeito à relação que o educando irá estabelecer entre a crença religiosa e o conhecimento científico. Do mesmo modo, o professor é mais influenciado, no exercício de lecionar, pelas suas crenças pessoais do que pela eventual confessionalidade da instituição. Ao mesmo tempo, foi possível apurar que, por vezes, os docentes incorrem em equívocos acerca da concepção de natureza da ciência, evidenciando a necessidade de repensarmos conteúdos e práticas do ensino superior, principalmente em relação à formação inicial de professores nos cursos de licenciatura. / The present study aims to analyze how High School teachers relate scientific knowledge and religious faith when it comes to teaching the concept of biological Evolution and how each teacher perceives the way students develop this relation depending on the religious context they are inserted. For theoretical ground, we used the Vygotsky\'s historical-cultural psychology and the study of Sepulveda and El-Hani (2004) that contains a bibliographical review about the possible relations between scientific and religious knowledge, describing three possibilities: the thesis of incompatibility, the thesis of independence and constructive dialogue between religion and science, and the thesis of the integration of both knowledges into a new interdisciplinary field. We also used Vygotsky\'s historical-cultural psychology concepts in order to substantiate our hypothesis on the influence of the environment and experiences on the attitudes and the development of scientific knowledge. Our data were obtained from semi structured interviews with teachers of religious and non-religious schools of São Paulo State. Those data were analyzed and discussed using the Discursive Textual Analysis methodology. Then we wrote metatexts in order to formalize and create new consideration about the results. Initially we concluded that the relation between scientific and religious knowledge developed by the student is more influenced by the teacher\'s beliefs than by the religious aspects of the school. Likewise, the teacher is more influenced by their own beliefs than by the school\'s religious tendencies. Additionally, we verified that occasionally teachers make mistakes about premises and practices of Science, highlighting the need of revisiting the practices and contents taught in higher education, especially regarding to teacher\'s graduation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cinthya Ferri Dutra de Almeida Cesar.pdf: 442007 bytes, checksum: 9e3d7df46bb7e142fa33d32938184d3c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-14 / The aim of this master s thesis is to comprehend, based on the phenomenological method, how the religious beliefs of catholic clinical psychologists influence their theoretical choices. In order to reach this purpose, some interviews were made with some catholic clinical psychologists who have been worked for more than five years in the clinical field. The analyses of the interviews were developed following Giorgi (1985) s proposal and according to the authors of a Phenomenological approach. This study allowed us to evidence some conclusions: the religious beliefs of catholic clinical psychologist influence their theoretical choices; it s possible to find a place in the field of Psychology that can welcome the psychologist and where he can develop well his professional function consonant to his religious beliefs; Psychology and Religion are different but not necessarily dissonant fields, and if they are respected in their specific subject, they can contribute for a psychologists and religious people s competent action; the psychologist s history of life and religious beliefs influence each theoretical choice in Psychology depending on how each person gives a sense for his experiences. As a result, it s important that psychologists accept and try to comprehend his own religious experiences and also his client s / O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender, a partir de uma metodologia fenomenológica, como as crenças religiosas de psicólogos clínicos que são católicos influenciam suas escolhas teóricas. Para atingir esse objetivo, realizaram-se entrevistas com psicólogos católicos, com mais de cinco anos de atuação na área clínica. A análise das entrevistas, seguindo as propostas de Giorgi (1985), dialogou com autores da abordagem fenomenológica. Este estudo permitiu apontar algumas conclusões: as crenças religiosas de psicólogos clínicos que são católicos influenciam suas escolhas teóricas; é possível encontrar dentro da Psicologia, um espaço acolhedor e apropriado, no qual o psicólogo desenvolve seu papel profissional de forma competente e coerente com suas crenças religiosas; a Religião e a Psicologia são universos diversos, mas não obrigatoriamente dissonantes, e, se respeitados em suas especificidades, podem contribuir para a atuação competente dos psicólogos e dos religiosos; a história de vida do psicólogo e suas crenças religiosas influenciam fortemente cada escolha teórica feita em Psicologia conforme cada pessoa dá sentido às suas vivências. Conseqüentemente, é importante que o psicólogo acolha e procure compreender suas próprias vivências religiosas, assim como as de seus clientes

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gina Corsi Amoroso.pdf: 993941 bytes, checksum: bbe04d47c9d5bbc1e5a41ad8f0d5fd82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disease, with no cause and no cure. The health professionals who treat MS people have as a principal role improve their quality of life. By relieving theirs symptoms, getting patient emotionally stronger to help them cope with their disabilities and help then to find better solutions to adapt with physical, emotional and social impairments. As MS has no cause and no cure the MS people can use the religion beliefs as a important tool to cope with MS .Because they can find in religion same reasons for having MS, consolation and courage to deal with theirs impairment . This study has the objective to know the MS people religious beliefs to analyze how it influence in quality of life their quality of life. Methods; open interviews, were used to find out about the religious beliefs and questionnaires Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS) and The spiritual/ religious Coping,(SRC) were used to measure their quality of life and the way MS people use their faith to cope with stress. The result show that there is a statistic significant relation between FAMS and SRC. And the type of religious beliefs does not influence in the quality of life. Conclusion; The religions beliefs of MS people in this study showed rich and varied and meaningful and the way that this people can use their faith to cope with stress situations can influence in their quality of life / A Esclerose Múltipla é uma doença progressiva, sem causa definida e sem cura. Os profissionais da área da saúde que tratam pessoas com Esclerose Múltipla têm como principal objetivo ajudá-las a desenvolver a sua qualidade de vida. Como amenizar os sintomas clínicos, fortalecer o/a paciente emocionalmente para que lide com as perdas e buscar soluções que o/a ajudem na adaptação a novas condições físicas, emocionais e sociais. Por não ter causa definida e nem cura, supõe-se que a religião tenha um papel significativo no enfrentamento da Esclerose Múltipla. Os/as portadores/as desta encontram na religião explicação para a doença, consolo e força para enfrentar suas dificuldades do seu dia-a-dia. Este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a crença religiosa de portadores/as de Esclerose Múltipla que freqüentam a Associação Brasileira de Esclerose Múltipla, localizada na cidade de São Paulo, para após analisar a influência desta na qualidade de vida. Para isto, foi utilizado método qualitativo - por meio de entrevistas abertas e semi-estruturadas, a fim de colher dados sobre a crença religiosa -, associado a método quantitativo - por meio da aplicação dos questionários Functional Assesment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS) e Escala de Coping, Religioso- Espiritual (CRE). Os resultados relevantes das análises dos dados qualitativos em cruzamento com os dados quantitativos mostram que há relação significativa entre as escalas FAMS e CRE. Já o tipo de crença religiosa aparentemente não influencia a qualidade de vida de pessoas com EM. Conclui-se que a crença religiosa das pessoas portadoras de Esclerose Múltipla pesquisadas é variável, rica e significativa e que a maneira com que essa crença é utilizada no dia-a-dia para lidar com situações estressantes pode influenciar a qualidade de vida destas pessoas

O presente trabalho possui como objetivos analisar como os professores do Ensino Médio estabelecem a relação entre conhecimento científico e crença religiosa no que diz respeito ao ensino do conceito de evolução biológica, e como esse professor percebe tal relação nos educandos em diferentes contextos de confessionalidade. Quanto à fundamentação teórica, nos alicerçamos na Psicologia histórico-cultural de Vygotsky e no trabalho de Sepulveda e El-Hani (2004), que realiza uma revisão bibliográfica acerca das possíveis relações estabelecidas entre o conhecimento científico e o conhecimento religioso, descrevendo três possibilidades: a tese da incompatibilidade, a tese da independência e do diálogo construtivo entre religião e ciência e a tese da integração dos dois campos de conhecimento em um novo campo interdisciplinar. Utilizamos os pressupostos da Psicologia histórico-cultural com intuito de fundamentar nossas hipóteses no que diz respeito à influência do meio e das vivências nas atitudes e na formação de conceitos científicos dos indivíduos. A obtenção de dados foi feita a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com professores e professoras de escolas confessionais e não confessionais do Estado de São Paulo. Tais dados foram analisados e discutidos utilizando a metodologia de Análise Textual Discursiva. Posteriormente, redigimos metatextos com intuito de formalizar e construir novas reflexões sobre os resultados obtidos. Verificamos inicialmente que, mais do que a confessionalidade da instituição de ensino, o docente possui um papel de protagonismo central no que diz respeito à relação que o educando irá estabelecer entre a crença religiosa e o conhecimento científico. Do mesmo modo, o professor é mais influenciado, no exercício de lecionar, pelas suas crenças pessoais do que pela eventual confessionalidade da instituição. Ao mesmo tempo, foi possível apurar que, por vezes, os docentes incorrem em equívocos acerca da concepção de natureza da ciência, evidenciando a necessidade de repensarmos conteúdos e práticas do ensino superior, principalmente em relação à formação inicial de professores nos cursos de licenciatura. / The present study aims to analyze how High School teachers relate scientific knowledge and religious faith when it comes to teaching the concept of biological Evolution and how each teacher perceives the way students develop this relation depending on the religious context they are inserted. For theoretical ground, we used the Vygotsky\'s historical-cultural psychology and the study of Sepulveda and El-Hani (2004) that contains a bibliographical review about the possible relations between scientific and religious knowledge, describing three possibilities: the thesis of incompatibility, the thesis of independence and constructive dialogue between religion and science, and the thesis of the integration of both knowledges into a new interdisciplinary field. We also used Vygotsky\'s historical-cultural psychology concepts in order to substantiate our hypothesis on the influence of the environment and experiences on the attitudes and the development of scientific knowledge. Our data were obtained from semi structured interviews with teachers of religious and non-religious schools of São Paulo State. Those data were analyzed and discussed using the Discursive Textual Analysis methodology. Then we wrote metatexts in order to formalize and create new consideration about the results. Initially we concluded that the relation between scientific and religious knowledge developed by the student is more influenced by the teacher\'s beliefs than by the religious aspects of the school. Likewise, the teacher is more influenced by their own beliefs than by the school\'s religious tendencies. Additionally, we verified that occasionally teachers make mistakes about premises and practices of Science, highlighting the need of revisiting the practices and contents taught in higher education, especially regarding to teacher\'s graduation.

Este survey interseccional teve como objetivo verificar a prevalência de experiências anômalas extra-sensório-motoras (ou experiências psi) comparando características demográficas, práticas, crenças, religiosidade e níveis de bemestar subjetivo (BES) de experienciadores (EXPs) e não experienciadores (NEXPs) de psi. Para a coleta de dados, foi elaborado e aplicado o Questionário de Prevalência e Relevância de Psi (Q-PRP) com 35 itens, juntamente com a Escala de Bem-Estar Subjetivo (EBES) (Albuquerque e Tróccoli, 2004). Dos 306 respondentes (idades de 18 a 66 anos) que participaram da pesquisa, 82,7% alegaram ter vivenciado pelo menos uma experiência anômala extra-sensóriomotora. Não foi encontrada diferença significante entre EXPs e NEXPs em termos de gênero, renda, estado civil, religião e religiosidade. No entanto, verificou-se que EXPs crêem significantemente mais em percepção extra-sensorial, psicocinesia, reencarnação, vida após a morte e práticas alternativas. EXPs indicaram que suas experiências psi afetaram suas atitudes, crenças e tomadas de decisão. Tal influência está significativamente relacionada à atribuição de causalidade feita para as experiências psi vivenciadas. As atribuições de causalidade são coerentes com a crença, adesão ou postura religiosa dos EXPs. Quanto aos níveis de BES, os EXPs pontuaram mais no fator afetos negativos, o que sugere que EXPs têm um nível de BES mais baixo que os NEXPs. Os dados foram discutidos em detalhes enfatizando-se a complexidade de suas associações e correlações. Os resultados não são conclusivos, mas apontam tendências que deverão ser exploradas de forma mais aprofundada em próximos estudos. / The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to verify the prevalence of anomalous extrasensorimotor experiences (or psi experiences) and compare psi experiencers (EXPs) and non experiencers (NEXPs) in terms of demographic variables, beliefs, alternative practices and subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels. In order to collect data, it was used the 35-item Questionário de Prevalência e Relevância de Psi (QPRP) elaborated for this research, and the Escala de Bem-Estar Subjetivo (EBES) (Albuquerque e Trócoli, 2004). From the 306 respondents (age from 18 to 66), 82,7% claimed at least one psi experience. No significant differences between EXPs and NEXPs were found in terms of sex, income, marital status, religion and religiosity. However, EXPs believe significantly more in extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, reincarnation, survival after death, and alternative practices. EXPs indicated that psi experiences have affected their attitudes, beliefs and decisions. Such influence is significantly related to the attribution of causality they make to their own psi experiences. Attributions of causality were coherent to EXPs s beliefs. As to SWB, EXPs tend to punctuate higher in terms of negative affects than NEXPs, what suggests that EXPs have a lower level of SWB than NEXPs. Data were discussed in detail emphasizing the complexity of associations and correlations among them. Results are not conclusive, but point to tendencies which must be explored more profoundly in next studies.

Spiritual well-being is a well-established predictor of mental health, yet the potential mechanisms of this association are relatively unexplored. We examined the influence of spirituality, including religious and existential well-being, on depressive symptoms, and the potential mediating effect of optimism and pessimism, in a sample of 66 African American female suicide attempters. Participants were recruited from a large, urban hospital and completed the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Life Orientation Test-Revised, and the Beck Depression Inventory-II. The association between spiritual well-being and depressive symptoms was mediated indirectly through both optimism and pessimism; greater religious and existential well-being was related to more optimism, and less pessimism and, in turn, to fewer depressive symptoms. Historically, spiritual well-being has been important to the African American community, and its beneficial effects on mental health might be explained, in part, by their effect on cognitive-emotional functioning.

The Catholic Church tenets are in dissonance with American Counseling Association (ACA) ethical guidelines regarding same-sex sexual orientation. While homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual II as a disorder, the Catholic Church upholds same-sex sexual acts as grave depravity and disordered. Catholic counselors may face the dilemma of adhering to their religious tenets or their professional guidelines in working with gay men and lesbian women clients. Previous research has indicated that values conflicts between religious beliefs and ACA Ethical Codes on same-sex sexual orientation have resulted in legal issues due to counselors refusing therapeutic relationships or providing substandard therapy to gay men and lesbian women clients. An extensive literature review revealed no studies that exclusively focused on the disconnect between the Catholic Church's tenets and the ACA Ethical Codes. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experience of values conflicts of Catholic counselors while working with gay men and lesbian women clients. Interpretative phenomenological analysis guided the analysis of data collected from interviews with 9 Catholic counselor participants. Six major themes emerged from the analysis: challenges, comfortable, identification with Catholic faith, personal view of Catholic position, referral, and multicultural training. The study provides insight to counselor educators and supervisors in improving multicultural competence of counselors and students. The study is an important contribution to the existing literature and would enhance social change initiatives through support and acceptance of gay men and lesbian women, which the counseling profession advocates.

This interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study was implemented to explore and describe the initial and long-term motivations of community volunteers within a selected homeless shelter in central Indiana. The settlement house movement of human service delivery was the conceptual framework, which provided guidance and understanding concerning why and how community members provide human services through volunteerism. The research question examined the ways in which long-term volunteers thought about and made sense of their motivations to volunteer initially and over the long term at a homeless shelter. To answer the research question, the IPA methodology was implemented with 6 long-term community volunteers at a selected shelter. This design provided rich qualitative text that was analyzed to develop themes to explain and describe how the 6 study participants made sense of their individual motivations descriptively, emotionally, religiously, and socially. The overarching conclusion was that all 6 participants shared a common theme, which was Evangelical tradition, volunteerism, and social responsibility. This new finding provides a first look at the motivations of community volunteers, previously unknown in academic literature, and indicates a key subgroup of volunteers that may be the focus of future research on assisting community shelters with recruiting and retaining community members for the effort to eradicate homelessness in the United States.