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Nima Ghorbani

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ID296755
NAMENima Ghorbani
GIVEN NAMESNima
FAMILY NAMEGhorbani
SIGNATUREGHORBANI N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tehran
ORCID0000-0003-2763-5498
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4
  • Islamic mysticism and transliminality: Factor and network analysis in Iranian Muslim students

    Open Access•Zhuojun Joyce Chen, Nima Ghorbani•ARTICLE•Social Sciences & Humanities Open•2024

    The layered hierarchy model of mysticism recognizes the unitary core present in monistic mysticism, while also acknowledging the diverse range of experiences influenced by religious principles and individual dispositions. Within Islamic mysticism, these elements are encapsulated, emphasizing a tripartite synergy involving inner knowledge of the divine unity, adherence to religious codes of conduct, and the pathway that connects exoteric actions t…

  • The experience of pain among patients who suffer from chronic pain: The role of suppression and mindfulness in the pain sensitivity and the autonomic nervous system activity

    Open Access•Zoha Saeedi, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2023

  • Measuring Muslim religiosity and spirituality: Measurement invariance of Muslim attitudes toward religion and Muslim experiential religiousness scales across China, Iran, Malaysia, and Pakistan

    Zhuojun Joyce Chen, Zhiqiong Ma et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2022

    This study examined measurement invariances of the 14-item Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion (MAR) and the 15-item Muslim Experiential Religiousness (MER) scales in 4 Muslim samples in China (N = 191), Iran (N = 346), Malaysia (N = 236), and Pakistan (N = 320). Results supported weak invariance (equal indicator loadings) for both MAR and MER and partial strong invariance (equal indicator intercepts) after freeing intercepts for 3 items of MAR and …

  • Exploring the mediating role of integrative self‐knowledge in the relationship between mindfulness and well‐being in the context of a mindfulness‐based stress reduction program

    Open Access•Maryam Abbasi, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Psychology•2021

    Mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) is an effective program for improving well‐being. A growing body of studies is exploring the mechanisms mediating its beneficial effects. Integrative self‐knowledge (ISK) is the construct of focus in this study. The primary goal of the current study was to investigate the mediating role of ISK in the relationship between improved mindful observing (MO), non‐judging inner experience (NJ), and well‐being fo…

  • Recollections of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Complexities of Religious Coping and Muslim Religious and Psychological Adjustment in Afghanistan

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Zhuojun Joyce Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Religion and Health•2021

  • The Relationship Between Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mindfulness, Self-Control, and Mental Health Parameters

    Open Access•Fatemeh Hajifathali, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•Propósitos y Representaciones•2021•Cited by: 1

    Background: Self-regulating is a set of processes that controls or alters individuals' behavior, emotion, and performance. We aimed to evaluate the relation between three components of self-regulating including integrative self-knowledge, mindfulness, self-control, and some variables of mental health and self-conscious emotions. Methods: A total of 233 Iranian university students voluntarily enrolled in the study. Seven questionnaire forms includ…

  • Examining the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 20 diverse samples: Support for use of a total score and six subscale scores.

    Kristin D Neff, István Tóth‐király et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Assessment•2019

    This study examined the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) using secondary data drawn from 20 samples (N = 11,685)-7 English and 13 non-English-including 10 community, 6 student, 1 mixed community/student, 1 meditator, and 2 clinical samples. Self-compassion is theorized to represent a system with 6 constituent components: self-kindness, common humanity, mindfulness and reduced self-judgment, isolation and overidentification. The…

  • Poets and transliminality: Relationships with mystical experience and religious commitment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2019

  • Religious fundamentalism in Iran: Religious and psychological adjustment within a Muslim cultural context

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Zhuojun Joyce Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2019

    This first analysis of the Religious Fundamentalism Scale in Iran further examined findings that conservative religious commitments have positive adjustment implications outside the West. Religious Fundamentalism in a sample of 385 Iranian university students displayed direct relationships with Muslim religiosity and spirituality and correlated positively with the Transcendence and negatively with the Symbolism Post-Critical Beliefs (PCB) factors…

  • Post-Critical Beliefs and Religious Reflection: Religious Openness Hypothesis in Iranian University and Islamic Seminary Students

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Theology•2018

    Negative relationships between Post-Critical Beliefs in Iran imply that Muslim perspectives are closed-minded, but positive correlations between Religious Reflection factors point instead toward a Muslim open-mindedness. The hypothesis of this study was that this contrast reveals the Post-Critical Belief of Symbolism to be a questionable index of Muslim open-mindedness. Iranian university students and Islamic seminarians ( N = 296) responded to P…

  • Model of Muslim Religious Spirituality: Impact of Muslim Experiential Religiousness on Religious Orientations and Psychological Adjustment among Iranian Muslims

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2018

    Previous research indicates that spirituality expressed in tradition-specific terms may initiate, invigorate, and integrate Muslim religious commitments, suggesting a 3-I Model of Religious Spirituality. In a test of this model, Islamic seminarians, university students, and office workers in Iran ( N = 604) responded to Muslim Experiential Religiousness (MER), Religious Orientation, and mental health scales. The tradition- specific spirituality o…

  • Muslim attitudes and spirituality: Relationships with Dark Triad and Harmony Control in Iranian teachers

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2017

    Iranian teachers (N = 250) responded to Muslim attitude and spirituality measures in a project testing the hypothesis that Muslim personality functioning will reflect beliefs in the beneficence of society and a consequent need to restrain personal desires. Muslim attitudes were especially noteworthy in displaying negative relationships with disturbances in personal restraint as represented by the Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Narcissism comp…

  • Diversity and Complexity of Religion and Spirituality in Iran: Relationships With Self-Compassion and Self-Forgiveness

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    This study examined religious-spiritual types in Iran by comparing seminary and university students on self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and other measures of religious and psychological functioning. Islamic seminarians (N = 198) more frequently self-identified as both religious and spiritual or as religious only. University students (N = 302) more commonly described themselves as spiritual only or as neither spiritual nor religious. The both re…

  • Muslim Work Ethics: Relationships with Religious Orientations and the "Perfect Man" (Ensān-e Kāmel) in Managers and Staff in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Religions•2017•References: 16

    Weber's association of a work ethic with Protestantism has been extended to religions, including Islam, more generally. Managers and staff in a bank and department store in Tehran responded to Muslim religiousness measures along with the multidimensional work ethics profile (MWEP). The MWEP is a 7-factor instrument that records Weber's interpretation of work ethics. Intrinsic, extrinsic personal, and extrinsic cultural religious orientations pred…

  • Muslim attachments to God and the “perfect man” (Ensān-e Kāmel): Relationships with religious orientation and psychological adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2016

  • Muslim Experiential Religiousness: Spirituality Relationships With Psychological and Religious Adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Spirituality in Mental…•2016

    Iranian university (N = 153) and Islamic seminary (N = 143) students responded to a Muslim Experiential Religiousness measure of spirituality. This instrument correlated positively with Integrative Self-Knowledge, Self-Control, Mindfulness, and Satisfaction With Life. Muslim Experiential Religiousness also displayed direct associations with Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion and with Intrinsic and Extrinsic Personal Religious Orientations. At highe…

  • Religious and Psychological Implications of Positive and Negative Religious Coping in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Religion and Health•2016

  • Muslim Distress Mobilization Hypothesis: Complex roles of Islamic Positive Religious Coping and Punishing Allah Reappraisal in Iranian students

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2016

    Muslim religious coping may include distress mobilisation effects that explain why adaptive and maladaptive forms of religious coping correlate positively rather than nonsignificantly, as they usually do in the West. In this study, 147 Iranian university students responded to Islamic Positive Religious Coping (IPRC) and Punishing Allah Reappraisal (PAR) Scales along with Religious Orientation, Perceived Stress, and mental health measures. IPRC an…

  • Religious Schema within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Religious and Psychological Adjustment in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2016

    With Religious Schema Scales in the West, Truth of Texts and Teachings correlates negatively with the commitment to interreligious dialogue recorded by Xenosophia. This measure of fundamentalism also predicts problematic religious and psychosocial functioning. The present project examined Religious Schema Scales in university students and Islamic seminarians in the Muslim cultural context of Iran. Truth of Texts and Teachings correlated positivel…

  • Transliminality and mystical experience: Common thread hypothesis, religious commitment, and psychological adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2014

  • Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation: Analysis of an Iranian measure in university students in the United States

    Piers Watson, P J Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Beliefs and Values•2014

    Previous research examining Iranian university students suggested that an Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation may be more important than an Extrinsic Social Religious motivation in maintaining Muslim religious commitments. The present project demonstrated that a similar conclusion seemed applicable to the largely Christian commitments of American university students. In the United States, an Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation Scale dis…

  • Varieties of openness in Tehran and Qom: Psychological and religious parallels of faith and intellect-oriented Islamic religious reflection

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2013

    This study examined whether faith and intellect-oriented religious reflection would be polarised in Iranian Muslins as they appear to be in American Christians. Iranian students at a university in Tehran and at an Islamic seminary in Qom responded to Faith and Intellect-Oriented Islamic Religious Reflection measures along with scales recording various forms of religious commitment and psychological openness. Both types of religious reflection and…

  • Analyzing the Spirituality of Muslim Experiential Religiousness: Relationships with Psychological Measures of Islamic Religiousness in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2013

    This investigation analyzed Islamic spirituality as measured by a Muslim Experiential Religiousness Scale. Iranian university and seminary students (N = 351) responded to this instrument along with the Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR) and Perceived Stress and Self-Esteem scales. Muslim Experiential Religiousness correlated predictably with all PMIR sub-scales, Perceived Stress, and Self-Esteem, and mediated almost all relatio…

  • Shame and Guilt: Relationships of Test of Self-Conscious Affect Measures With Psychological Adjustment and Gender Differences in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Interpersona An International…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    In numerous studies conducted in Western societies, shame as measured by the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA) has correlated with maladjustment whereas the TOSCA Guilt Scale has predicted adjustment. The present investigation sought to determine if such linkages would also appear in the Muslim cultural context of Iran. Iranian university students (N = 132) responded to Shame and Guilt Scales from the third version of the TOSCA, along with an…

  • Self-Compassion in Iranian Muslims: Relationships With Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mental Health, and Religious Orientation

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    Although a Buddhist construct, self-compassion may have implications for understanding psychological adjustment cross-culturally. In Iranian Muslims, the Self-Compassion Scale correlated positively with integrative self-knowledge, self-esteem, and basic need satisfactions and negatively with depression and anxiety. Negative linkages with depression and anxiety continued to appear in partial correlations controlling for self-esteem, replicating a …

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  • Muslim-Christian Religious Orientation Scales: Distinctions, Correlations, and Cross-Cultural Analysis in Iran and the United States

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2002•Cited by: 15•References: 10

    Allport and Ross (1967) Religious Orientation Scales were administered along with nine new Muslim-Christian Religious Orientation Scales (MCROS) to students in Iran and the United States. Religious extrinsicness was associated with self-reported symptoms of psychological disturbance; with the Iranians, intrinsicness predicted adjustment. Most relations among the religious variables were positive with the two samples displaying similar, though not…

  • Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three-Factor Structure in the United States and Iran

    Open Access•Ralph W Hood Jr, Ralph W Hood et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2001•Cited by: 11

    In a mostly Christian American sample (N = 1,379), confirmatory factor analysis of Hood's (1975) Mysticism Scale verified the existence of Stace's (1960) introvertive and extrovertive dimensions of mystical phenomenology along with a separate interpretation factor. A second study confirmed the presence of these three factors in not only another group of Americans (N = 188), but also in a sample of Iranian Muslims (N = 185). Relationships of the i…

  • The ubiquity of common method variance: The case of the Big Five

    Open Access•Michael D Biderman, Nhung Nguyen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 51

  • Research: Negatively Reinforcing Personal Extrinsic Motivations: Religious Orientation, Inner Awareness, and Mental Health in Iran and the United States

    Piers Watson, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2002•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    (2002). RESEARCH: Negatively Reinforcing Personal Extrinsic Motivations: Religious Orientation, Inner Awareness, and Mental Health in Iran and the United States. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 255-276

  • Self-Compassion in Iranian Muslims: Relationships With Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mental Health, and Religious Orientation

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    Although a Buddhist construct, self-compassion may have implications for understanding psychological adjustment cross-culturally. In Iranian Muslims, the Self-Compassion Scale correlated positively with integrative self-knowledge, self-esteem, and basic need satisfactions and negatively with depression and anxiety. Negative linkages with depression and anxiety continued to appear in partial correlations controlling for self-esteem, replicating a …

  • Afterlife Motivation Scale: Correlations With Maladjustment and Incremental Validity in Iranian Muslims

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    In a previous study of Iranian Muslims, two scales measuring religious commitments based on a desire to avoid hell and to reach heaven predicted maladjustment. The responding of Iranian university students in this investigation revealed that these two forms of desire could be reduced to a single factor that was adequately operationalized in a brief six-item instrument. This Afterlife Motivation Scale displayed strong internal consistency and corr…

  • Diversity and Complexity of Religion and Spirituality in Iran: Relationships With Self-Compassion and Self-Forgiveness

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    This study examined religious-spiritual types in Iran by comparing seminary and university students on self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and other measures of religious and psychological functioning. Islamic seminarians (N = 198) more frequently self-identified as both religious and spiritual or as religious only. University students (N = 302) more commonly described themselves as spiritual only or as neither spiritual nor religious. The both re…

  • The Relationship Between Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mindfulness, Self-Control, and Mental Health Parameters

    Open Access•Fatemeh Hajifathali, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•Propósitos y Representaciones•2021•Cited by: 1

    Background: Self-regulating is a set of processes that controls or alters individuals' behavior, emotion, and performance. We aimed to evaluate the relation between three components of self-regulating including integrative self-knowledge, mindfulness, self-control, and some variables of mental health and self-conscious emotions. Methods: A total of 233 Iranian university students voluntarily enrolled in the study. Seven questionnaire forms includ…

  • Shame and Guilt: Relationships of Test of Self-Conscious Affect Measures With Psychological Adjustment and Gender Differences in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Interpersona An International…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    In numerous studies conducted in Western societies, shame as measured by the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA) has correlated with maladjustment whereas the TOSCA Guilt Scale has predicted adjustment. The present investigation sought to determine if such linkages would also appear in the Muslim cultural context of Iran. Iranian university students (N = 132) responded to Shame and Guilt Scales from the third version of the TOSCA, along with an…

  • Religious Problem Solving and the Complexity of Religious Rationality Within an Iranian Muslim Ideological Surround

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    Comparative rationality analysis formally examines the incommensurable social rationalities that theoretically exist within religions and the social sciences according to the ideological surround model (ISM) of the psychology of religion. This study extended these procedures to a new cultural context: 220 Iranian university students responded to the Religious Problem-Solving Scales developed by Pargament et al. (1988). As hypothesized, the Collab…

  • Muslim attitudes towards religion scale: Factors, validity and complexity of relationships with mental health in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2000

    Iranian students responded to the 'Muslim Attitudes Towards Religion Scale' (MARS) along with measures of psychiatric symptoms, religious motivation, and mystical experience. The MARS contained three factors and these factors and the full scale were internally reliable. They also correlated positively with an extrinsic religious orientation, even more robustly with greater religious interest and an intrinsic religious orientation, and less consis…

  • Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three-Factor Structure in the United States and Iran

    Open Access•Ralph W Hood Jr, Ralph W Hood et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2001•Cited by: 11

    In a mostly Christian American sample (N = 1,379), confirmatory factor analysis of Hood's (1975) Mysticism Scale verified the existence of Stace's (1960) introvertive and extrovertive dimensions of mystical phenomenology along with a separate interpretation factor. A second study confirmed the presence of these three factors in not only another group of Americans (N = 188), but also in a sample of Iranian Muslims (N = 185). Relationships of the i…

  • Research: Negatively Reinforcing Personal Extrinsic Motivations: Religious Orientation, Inner Awareness, and Mental Health in Iran and the United States

    Piers Watson, Nima Ghorbani et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2002•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    (2002). RESEARCH: Negatively Reinforcing Personal Extrinsic Motivations: Religious Orientation, Inner Awareness, and Mental Health in Iran and the United States. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 255-276

  • Muslim-Christian Religious Orientation Scales: Distinctions, Correlations, and Cross-Cultural Analysis in Iran and the United States

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2002•Cited by: 15•References: 10

    Allport and Ross (1967) Religious Orientation Scales were administered along with nine new Muslim-Christian Religious Orientation Scales (MCROS) to students in Iran and the United States. Religious extrinsicness was associated with self-reported symptoms of psychological disturbance; with the Iranians, intrinsicness predicted adjustment. Most relations among the religious variables were positive with the two samples displaying similar, though not…

  • Two Facets of Self-Knowledge, the Five-Factor Model, and Promotions Among Iranian Managers

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Social Behavior and Personality…•2004

    Reflective and Experiential Self-Knowledge Scales were administered to Iranian managers along with measures of the Five Factor Model, anxiety, depression, perceived stress, and attributional complexity. Experiential Self-Knowledge correlated positively with the number of promotions earned by these managers. Both scales were associated with higher levels of Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, and Extraversion and, in general, with greater self-…

  • Hardiness Scales in Iranian Managers: Evidence of Incremental Validity in Relationships with the Five Factor Model and with Organizational and Psychological Adjustment

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2005

    This study examined the incremental validity of Hardiness scales in a sample of Iranian managers. Along with measures of the Five Factor Model and of Organizational and Psychological Adjustment, Hardiness scales were administered to 159 male managers (M age = 39.9, SD = 7.5) who had worked in their organizations for 7.9 yr. (SD=5.4). Hardiness predicted greater Job Satisfaction, higher Organization-based Self-esteem, and perceptions of the work e…

  • Constructive Thinking Inventory: Evidence of Validity among Iranian Managers

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Ahad Framarz Ghramaleki et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2005

    This study examined the validity and incremental validity of the Constructive Thinking Inventory in a sample of Iranian managers. These 159 men were 39.9 yr. old (SD=2.5) and volunteered to participate in a project in which they responded to the Constructive Thinking Inventory, the Big Five Factors, the Costello and Comrey Depression and Anxiety Scales, and the Perceived Stress Scale. Numerous findings confirmed the validity of the Constructive T…

  • Validity of Experiential and Reflective Self-Knowledge Scales: Relationships with Basic Need Satisfaction among Iranian Factory Workers

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2006

    This study examined the validity of Experiential and Reflective Self-knowledge Scales in a sample of Iranian factory workers. Both scales were administered to 321 male and 12 female workers (M age= 35.6 yr., SD= 8.9) along with the Basic Need Satisfaction at Work Scales, the Work Climate Questionnaire, and measures of Perceived Stress and Self-esteem. Scores on the two self-knowledge measures correlated with all other variables consistent with th…

  • Relationships of Experiential and Reflective Self-Knowledge with Trait Meta-Mood Scale, Constructive Thinking Inventory, and the Five Factors in Iranian Managers

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2006

    The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and the incremental validity of recently developed Reflective and Experiential Self-knowledge Scales. Along with measures of the Five Factors and of psychological adjustment, 201 male Iranian managers responded to the Self-knowledge Scales along with tests relevant to emotional intelligence, including the Trait Meta-mood Scale and the Constructive Thinking Inventory. As hypothesized, Self-know…

  • Theoretical, Empirical, and Potential Ideological Dimensions of Using Western Conceptualizations to Measure Muslim Religious Commitments

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Muslim Mental Health•2007

    One approach to promoting a Muslim psychology of religion involves a dialogical model of research. This model would bring Western social scientific understandings of religion and mental health into dialogue with Muslim perspectives. Concerns about bias in applying Western assumptions and methods to Muslim religiousness could be addressed through an empirical sensitivity to ideological factors. Support for this model may appear in the effort of We…

  • Religious Commitment in Iran: Correlates and Factors of Quest and Extrinsic Religious Orientations

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2007

    Iranians responded to Quest and Extrinsic Religious Orientation Scales in order to assess their validity and factor structure within a Muslim context. A sample of 251 Iranian university students received Persian versions of these instruments along with Intrinsic Religious Orientation, Interpersonal Reactivity, Constructive Thinking, Need for Cognition, and Openness to Experience Scales. Analysis of these data revealed that the Quest Scale contain…

  • Relationship of Self-Reported Mysticism with Depression and Anxiety in Iranian Muslims

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•2007

    This study examined relationships of self-reported Mysticism with dispositional Depression and Anxiety in Iranian Muslims. The sample contained 80 women and 51 men undergraduates who volunteered to participate (M age=20.5 yr., SD= 2.0). Participants responded to the Hood Mysticism Scale and to the Costello and Comrey Depression and Anxiety Scales. Scores on the Religious Interpretation dimension of mystical experience correlated negatively with t…

  • Afterlife Motivation Scale: Correlations With Maladjustment and Incremental Validity in Iranian Muslims

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    In a previous study of Iranian Muslims, two scales measuring religious commitments based on a desire to avoid hell and to reach heaven predicted maladjustment. The responding of Iranian university students in this investigation revealed that these two forms of desire could be reduced to a single factor that was adequately operationalized in a brief six-item instrument. This Afterlife Motivation Scale displayed strong internal consistency and corr…

  • Mysticism and Self-Determination in Iran: Multidimensional Complexity of Relationships with Basic Need Satisfaction and Mindfulness

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2009

    In this study, the self-reported mystical experience of Muslims was correlated with constructs relevant to positive psychology. Iranian university students responded to the Extrovertive, Introvertive, and Religious Interpretation factors of the Mysticism Scale; to the Basic Need Satisfaction and Mindfulness measures associated with Self-Determination Theory; and to instruments recording Attributional Complexity, Obsessiveness, and Quest religiosi…

  • Muslim extrinsic cultural religious orientation and identity: Relationships with social and personal adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Beliefs and Values•2010

    Especially in Muslim communities, extrinsic motivations for being religious may include the use of religion to promote societal well‐being. Iranian university students responded to statements designed to express an extrinsic cultural religious orientation. Four factors described this motivation, including Family and Social Order, Disorder Avoidance, Peace and Justice, and Cultural Foundations. Extrinsic cultural religious factors correlated posit…

  • Dialogical Validity of Religious Measures in Iran: Relationships with Integrative Self-Knowledge and Self-Control of the “Perfect Man” ( Ensān-e Kāmel )

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2011

    According to the ideological surround model of research, a more “objective” psychology of religion requires efforts to bring etic social scientific and emic religious perspectives into formal dialog. This study of 245 Iranian university students illustrated how the dialogical validity of widely used etic measures of religion can be assessed by examining an emic religious perspective on psychology. Integrative Self-Knowledge and Self-Control Scale…

  • The ubiquity of common method variance: The case of the Big Five

    Open Access•Michael D Biderman, Nhung Nguyen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 51

  • Self-Compassion in Iranian Muslims: Relationships With Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mental Health, and Religious Orientation

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for the…•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    Although a Buddhist construct, self-compassion may have implications for understanding psychological adjustment cross-culturally. In Iranian Muslims, the Self-Compassion Scale correlated positively with integrative self-knowledge, self-esteem, and basic need satisfactions and negatively with depression and anxiety. Negative linkages with depression and anxiety continued to appear in partial correlations controlling for self-esteem, replicating a …

  • Religious Problem Solving and the Complexity of Religious Rationality Within an Iranian Muslim Ideological Surround

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal for the Scientific Study…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    Comparative rationality analysis formally examines the incommensurable social rationalities that theoretically exist within religions and the social sciences according to the ideological surround model (ISM) of the psychology of religion. This study extended these procedures to a new cultural context: 220 Iranian university students responded to the Religious Problem-Solving Scales developed by Pargament et al. (1988). As hypothesized, the Collab…

  • Varieties of openness in Tehran and Qom: Psychological and religious parallels of faith and intellect-oriented Islamic religious reflection

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2013

    This study examined whether faith and intellect-oriented religious reflection would be polarised in Iranian Muslins as they appear to be in American Christians. Iranian students at a university in Tehran and at an Islamic seminary in Qom responded to Faith and Intellect-Oriented Islamic Religious Reflection measures along with scales recording various forms of religious commitment and psychological openness. Both types of religious reflection and…

  • Analyzing the Spirituality of Muslim Experiential Religiousness: Relationships with Psychological Measures of Islamic Religiousness in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Archive for the Psychology of…•2013

    This investigation analyzed Islamic spirituality as measured by a Muslim Experiential Religiousness Scale. Iranian university and seminary students (N = 351) responded to this instrument along with the Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR) and Perceived Stress and Self-Esteem scales. Muslim Experiential Religiousness correlated predictably with all PMIR sub-scales, Perceived Stress, and Self-Esteem, and mediated almost all relatio…

  • Shame and Guilt: Relationships of Test of Self-Conscious Affect Measures With Psychological Adjustment and Gender Differences in Iran

    Open Access•Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Interpersona An International…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    In numerous studies conducted in Western societies, shame as measured by the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA) has correlated with maladjustment whereas the TOSCA Guilt Scale has predicted adjustment. The present investigation sought to determine if such linkages would also appear in the Muslim cultural context of Iran. Iranian university students (N = 132) responded to Shame and Guilt Scales from the third version of the TOSCA, along with an…

  • Transliminality and mystical experience: Common thread hypothesis, religious commitment, and psychological adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2014

  • Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation: Analysis of an Iranian measure in university students in the United States

    Piers Watson, P J Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Beliefs and Values•2014

    Previous research examining Iranian university students suggested that an Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation may be more important than an Extrinsic Social Religious motivation in maintaining Muslim religious commitments. The present project demonstrated that a similar conclusion seemed applicable to the largely Christian commitments of American university students. In the United States, an Extrinsic Cultural Religious Orientation Scale dis…

  • Muslim attachments to God and the “perfect man” (Ensān-e Kāmel): Relationships with religious orientation and psychological adjustment in Iran

    Nima Ghorbani, Piers Watson et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Religion and…•2016

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