M Robbins

Biographic Data

ID13970
NAMEM Robbins
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMERobbins
SIGNATUREROBBINS M
AFFILIATIONSWrexham University
ORCID0000-0003-0834-4126
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS127
TOTAL CITATIONS50
AUTHOR COUNT127
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Team decision-making: The integration of cognitive task analysis and video to accelerate the development of tactical shared mental models in an elite sports team

    Open AccessP Scott Richards, M Robbins et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2025References: 2

    Introduction The focus of this article is on developing and operationalising shared mental models in elite sports teams, using a Decision-Making Framework.The Decision-making Framework innovatively integrates Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) methods into off-field after action review meetings (AAR) to enhance on-field performance. Methods Using a mixed method approach, fourteen international players and three expert coaches participated in this stud…

  • Purpose in Life: A Comparison between Communities of the Non-religious and the Religious

    M Robbins, Gareth LongdenARTICLEJournal of Empirical Theology2024

    Research has demonstrated that people of faith often report higher levels of purpose in life than the general population. It has been suggested this may be because they hold a meaningful world view rather than as a consequence of faith. It can be argued that humanists, like people of faith, also hold a meaningful world view, albeit one that is based upon a philosophy of naturalism. This article compares a sample of 1,042 members of Humanists UK w…

  • Pracademia-Role Modelling HyFlex Digital Pedagogies in Youth Work Education

    Open AccessHenry Douglas, Jess Achilleos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Youth Studies2024References: 41

  • Youth in Education: The Necessity of Valuing Ethnocultural Diversity

    M RobbinsARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2018

    Youth in Education: The Necessity of Valuing Ethnocultural Diversity." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 367–368

  • Clergywomen's experience of ministry in the Church of England

    M Robbins, Anne‐marie Greene et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2018Cited by: 1References: 15

    The ordination of clergywomen within the Church of England in 1994, and more recently the consecration of women as bishops has generated significant public interest. This paper explores the clergywomen’s understanding of their ministry in light of these changes. This study explores the stories of twenty-one clergywomen in the Church of England who have served, or are currently serving, in stipendiary parochial ministry. Their ages range from twen…

  • Mystical orientation and psychological health: A study among university students in Turkey

    Leslie J Francis, Üzeyir Ok et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2017

    This study examines the association between mystical experience, as captured by the Francis–Louden Mystical Orientation Scale, and psychological health, as captured by the Eysenckian three-dimensional model of personality, among 329 students attending a state university in Turkey. The data reported no significant association between mystical orientation and psychoticism scores, and a small but significant positive association between mystical ori…

  • The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam: A Study among Students in Pakistan

    Sahar Nadeem Hamid, M Robbins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Theology2016

    Recent years have seen growing interest in empirical religious research within the Islamic context. This paper contributes to that growth by exploring the reliability of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam. The scale is a 23-item instrument which measures attitudes toward Islam on a 5-point Likert scale. A total of 729 English speaking Pakistani young people (45% male and 55% female) completed the fscai . The data demonstrated that t…

  • Religion and Happiness: A Study Among University Students in Turkey

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Üzeyir Ok et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2016

  • The psychometric properties of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam revised among Sunni students in Malaysia

    Leslie J Francis, Mustafa Tekke et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2016

    This study examines the psychometric properties of a revised form of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam comprising only positive valence items. Data provided by 189 Sunni students in Malaysia (41 males and 148 females) support the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of this instrument and commend it for application in further studies

  • The internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the Santosh–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism among students in India

    Leslie J Francis, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2016

    The Santosh–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism was originally developed and tested among Hindus in the UK as part of a programme designed to assess religious affect across faith traditions. The present study tests the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the instrument among 149 students in Karnatak University Dharwad (74 males and 75 females), India. The data demonstrated an alpha coefficient of .90, suggesting a hig…

  • The New Indices of Religious Orientation Revised (Niror): A Study among Canadian Adolescents Attending a Baptist Youth Mission and Service Event

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEReligions2016

    This study explores the properties of the New Indices of Religious Orientation Revised (NIROR) among a sample of 521 Canadian adolescents attending a Baptist youth mission and service event, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years. This revision simplified the language of the original instrument to increase its accessibility among young people. The data support the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the three revised nine-item …

  • Temperament Theory and Congregation Studies: Different Types for Different Services

    Leslie J Francis, H D Wright et al.ARTICLEPractical Theology2016

    Temperament theory and psychological type theory provide a tool for assessing and interpreting the profile of church congregations. In this study the profiles of the three congregations (Ns = 43, 110, 43) at one Anglican church (given the pseudonym of Holy Trinity Church) are situated against the normative profile generated by the congregations at 140 Anglican churches (N = 3302). The data demonstrate that normative profile attracts a high propor…

  • Psychological Type of Person-Centered Counselors

    Open AccessM Robbins, Joanne TurleyARTICLEPsychological Reports2016

    There are various models and approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. Important characteristics of therapists include psychological type. This study aimed to investigate the psychological type profile of person-centered counselors. The psychological type of 85 counselors (63 women, 22 men) was measured with the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS). Results indicate that the FPTS can reliably measure psychological type among counselors, and…

  • Assessing the Psychological Type Profile of Canadian Baptist Youth: A Study Employing the Francis Psychological Type Scales for Adolescents (FPTSA)

    Open AccessBruce G Fawcett, Bruce Fawcett et al.ARTICLEPastoral Psychology2016References: 1

  • Psychological type profile of Protestant church leaders in Australia: Are clergymen and clergywomen different

    M Robbins, Ruth PowellARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    A sample of 120 clergywomen and 436 clergymen from Protestant denominations in Australia participated in the 2011 National Church Life Survey completing form LS2 that included the Francis Psychological Type Scales, an operationalisation of psychological type theory. The type profiles of the clergymen and clergywomen are compared, and demonstrate only one difference, clergywomen are significantly more likely to report a feeling preference than cle…

  • Why are women more religious than men? Testing the explanatory power of personality theory among undergraduate students in Wales

    Gemma Penny, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    This study tests the explanatory power of personality-based psychologically grounded theories to account for the well-established finding within the psychology of religion that within Christian and post-Christian contexts women are more religious than men. A sample of 1682 undergraduate students in Wales completed the short form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised together with the adult form of the Francis Scale of Attitude towards …

  • Subjective well-being and psychological type among Australian clergy

    M Robbins, Nicole HancockARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    A sample of 677 ordained clergy in Australia participated in the 2011 National Church Life Survey completing the Leaders Survey 2 questionnaire that included the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS), an operationalisation of psychological type theory and the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI), an operationalisation of subjective well-being. The data demonstrate good reliability for the FPTS and the PWI among this sample. The ordained clergy in Au…

  • The psychological type profile of Christians participating in fellowship groups or in small study groups: Insights from the Australian National Church Life Survey

    Leslie J Francis, M Robbins et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    The Australian National Church Life Survey draws on psychological type theory to facilitate insights into the connection between individual psychological profiles and preferences for different religious expressions. Drawing on data provided by 2355 participants in the 2006 congregation survey, this analysis profiles those members of church congregations who are drawn to participation in small prayer, discussion or Bible study groups, or to partic…

  • Do different psychological types look for different things in sermons? A research note

    Leslie J Francis, Christopher Stone et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    A sample of 76 Evangelical Anglican churchgoers completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales and rated the importance that they attribute to a sermon speaking to their imagination. The data demonstrated that sermons speaking to the imagination were rated more highly by intuitive types, feeling types, and perceiving types than by sensing types, thinking types, and judging types. Different psychological types look for different things in sermons

  • The churches and well-being: Perspectives from the Australian National Church Life Survey

    Ruth Powell, M RobbinsARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2015

    Australia is a nation with high levels of recorded well-being. This paper introduces a collection of papers which are concerned with the intersections between well-being and religion in an Australian context. The research is conducted on a religious population, namely Christian church attenders and local church leaders (both clergy and lay) in congregations in the Australian National Church Life Surveys (NCLS), perhaps the largest database on chu…

  • The Cost of a Calling? Clergywomen and Work in the Church of England

    Open AccessAnne‐marie Greene, M RobbinsARTICLEGender Work and Organization2015Cited by: 12References: 5

    This article explores the work of clergywomen in the Church of England within an analysis of the Church as a gendered organization. We highlight the sex discrimination they often face, at the same time as satisfaction with their work and the need to follow their calling regardless of the difficulties. This is explained through an analysis of the significance of religious calling and the requirement for ‘sacrifice’ on their ability to endure their…

  • Defining and Measuring the Contribution of Anglican Secondary Schools to Students’ Religious, Personal and Social Values

    Leslie J Francis, David W Lankshear et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Theology2014

    The involvement of the Christian Churches within a state-maintained system of schools, as in the case of England and Wales, raises interesting and important questions regarding the concept of religion employed in this context and regarding defining and measuring the influence exerted by schools with a religious character on the students who attend such schools. Since the foundation of the National Society in 1811, Anglican schools have provided a…

  • Taking Responsibility for Multiple Churches: A Study in Burnout among Anglican Clergywomen in England

    M Robbins, Leslie J FrancisARTICLEJournal of Empirical Theology2014

    A major consequence of changing cultures for Anglican clergy serving in the established Church of England (reflected in declining congregations, stretched financial resources, and falling vocations to the priesthood) is seen in the process of pastoral reorganisation that now requires individual clergy to have oversight of a growing number of churches. This is especially the case in rural areas where individual clergy may now be responsible for se…

  • Fresh Expressions: Reaching those Psychological Types Conventional Forms of Church Find it Hard to Reach

    Leslie J Francis, Judy Clymo et al.ARTICLEPractical Theology2014

    The Fresh Expressions movement aims to extend the reach of church life among groups less well-accessed by conventional church. This pilot study tests that claim within the framework of psychological type theory. A sample of 74 women and 49 men attending Fresh Expressions completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales to enable their profile to be set alongside the profile of 2135 women and 1169 men attending conventional Anglican congregations r…

  • Mystical Experience and Psychopathology: A Study Among Secular, Christian, and Muslim Youth in Germany

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Hans-Georg Ziebertz et al.ARTICLEPastoral Psychology2014References: 1