Andrew Village
Biographic Data
| ID | 315680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Village |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Village |
| SIGNATURE | VILLAGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York St John University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2174-8822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 107 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Typology of Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing Among Clergy: The Francis Burnout Inventory
The balanced affect model of clergy work-related psychological wellbeing operationalised in the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) maintains that professional burnout is predicted by the interaction between negative affect (emotional exhaustion) and positive affect (professional satisfaction). In order to locate negative affect and positive affect alongside one another, a five-fold typology was created using scores from 505 ministers in the Church o…
Eco-anxiety, Psychology, and Theological Beliefs About Creation Among Clergy and Lay People in the Church of England
Interest in eco-anxiety is growing rapidly, partly for therapeutic reasons and partly because it may be a motivation for pro-environmental behaviours. There is little study of how religious identities or church traditions and specific theological beliefs are related to eco-anxiety. This cross-sectional survey of 3240 clergy and laity from the Church of England explored the relationships between eco-anxiety, psychological dispositions, church trad…
The psychological type profile of the gatekeepers who book tickets online for cathedral installations: A replication study
Employing the Francis Psychological Type Scales, this study presents the psychological type profile of 493 individuals who booked tickets for a pre-Christmas son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral. The data replicates the findings of an earlier study among 778 similar participants. Intuitive types and perceiving types were underrepresented, with an over-representation of the Epimethean (SJ) temperament. The implications of these findings are discu…
Immigration and parental transmission of church attendance in Australia
Recent studies suggest intergenerational religious transmission varies in migrant communities depending on the status of religion in the countries of origin and destination. This article examines whether the children of churchgoing Asian-born migrants living in Australia were more likely to attend church than their counterparts from Australian-born families or European/North American migrant families. Data on 108,933 children were derived from th…
Is the psychological type profile of stipendiary parochial clergy in the Church of England changing? Exploring data from 2020 to 2021
During 2020 and 2021, 591 clergymen and 486 clergywomen serving in stipendiary parochial ministry in the Church of England completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. These data were compared with the profiles of 626 clergymen and 237 clergywomen published in 2007. Four significant differences were found between the two samples, with the more recent data showing among both clergymen and clergywomen higher levels of sensing, thinking, and jud…
The Revised Turkish Francis Psychological Type Scales: Testing the factor structure, internal consistency reliability and test–retest reliability among university students
This study was designed to test the factor structure, internal consistency reliability and test–retest reliability of the Revised Turkish Francis Psychological Type Scales among a sample of 110 university students. These data supported the four-factor structure (with one-item cross-loading) and demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency reliability (with room for further improvement on the perceiving process). The test–retest data supported t…
Exploring the missional capacity of cathedral installations and events: Theory and Data
Hosting income-generating installations and events in cathedrals remains controversial. This article examines three narratives suggesting that such activities are missional and supportive of Anglican ecclesiology. Then it explores new survey data gathered from people attending the 2024 pre-Christmas son et lumière in Liverpool Cathedral. Five statistics stand out within these data: while only 30% were churchgoers (attending at least six times a y…
Assessing the impact of a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere on participants’ psychological wellbeing and spiritual health
This study employs The Index of Balanced Affect Change (TIBACh) and the Francis Index of Spiritual Health Change (FISH) to assess the perceived impact on 518 participants who attended the Starlight pre-Christmas son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral. The Index of Positive Affect Change demonstrated that up to two-thirds of the participants went away feeling more positive about life. The Index of Existential Spiritual Health Change demonstrated th…
Who books the tickets for visitors to innovative installations and events in cathedrals? Exploring the psychological type profile of the gatekeepers
Previous research concerned with the psychographic segmentation of cathedral visitors, employing psychological type theory has drawn attention both to the psychological types under-represented among cathedral visitors and to the capacity of an innovative event to widen the psychographic appeal of cathedrals. This study tests the thesis that the requirement for advanced online booking to attend an innovative installation may nonetheless further de…
Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being Among Church of England Clergy and Laity three years After the Covid-19 Lockdowns
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns caused declines in psychological wellbeing among both clergy and lay people in the Church of England. This study uses a convenience sample of 3,826 clergy and lay people from the Church 2024 survey to examine perceived changes in psychological and spiritual wellbeing since the end of the 2021 lockdown. For most people negative affect either remained the same or decreased, and positive affect and spiritual wellbeing…
Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing of Catholic Priests in Portugal: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Francis Burnout Inventory
The present study was designed to translate the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised into Portuguese and to test this translation among a snowball sample of 266 Catholic priests serving in Portugal (91% diocesan). The data demonstrated: good internal consistency reliability for the two scales proposed by this instrument (negative affect, α = .89 and positive affect, α = .89); support for the association with a measure of self-compassion; and support…
Psychological wellbeing and belief in divine control during the third Covid-19 lockdown among The Episcopal Church
Designed to replicate an earlier study conducted among members of the Church of England, this study explored the connection between self-perceived change in psychological wellbeing during the pandemic (measured by The Index of Balanced Affect Change) and belief in divine control (measured by the God in Control of the Pandemic Scale) among 3430 lay or ordained members of The Episcopal Church in the USA. Belief in divine control was lower among wom…
The psychological type profile of Anglican clergymen serving in Northern Ireland: Closer to Wales than to England
This study set out to examine the psychological type profile of Anglican clergymen serving within the Church of Ireland in Northern Ireland. A sample of 85 clergymen completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. The data demonstrated a group of clergymen who prefer introversion (68%) over extraversion (32%), sensing (67%) over intuition (33%), feeling (60%) over thinking (40%), and judging (82%) over perceiving (18%). The two predominant types…
Comparing the Psychological Profiles of Anglican Clergy and Anglican Churchgoers in the United States
Psychological type and psychological temperament theory have contributed to the two fields of congregation studies and clergy studies. The present study brings these two fields together by drawing on data from an online survey employing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales promoted among clergy and laity in the United States. The analyses compare the profiles of 467 clergywomen and 1,910 female churchgoers, and the prof…
Exploring the responses of non-churchgoers to a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere
Two conceptual strands of research within the field of cathedral studies have theorised the capacity of Anglican cathedrals to engage more successfully than parish churches with the wider non-churchgoing community. One strand has explored mobilising cathedral metaphors, and the other strand has explored the notion of implicit religion. Both strands illuminate the power of events and installations to soften the boundaries between common ground and…
Assessing the engagement of participants at a pre-Christmas son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral: A study in the individual differences tradition
Recent studies have drawn attention to the variety of events, installations, and activities within Anglican cathedrals that hold the capacity to attract wider publics into these iconic buildings where common ground and sacred space collide. In order to assess the engagement of participants at a pre-Christmas installation in Liverpool Cathedral, this project designed seven measures of engagement (styled as Christmas engagement, Cathedral engagemen…
Assessing visitor evaluation of an immersive cathedral experience: Applying the Jungian lenses of feeling and thinking
Psychological type theory differentiates between two contrasting psychological functions relevant for evaluating experience, styled thinking and feeling. The present study encouraged visitors to the pre-Christmas son et lumiere at Liverpool Cathedral, The light before Christmas: The angels are coming, to evaluate their experience through these two lenses. Drawing on data from 978 participants, analysis of qualitative responses to the feeling prom…
Revising the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS)
The Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS) were developed from the Francis Psychological Type Scales to operationalise both the four components of psychological type theory and a component related to emotional temperament. Several studies of the parent and extended scales have suggested that, although the factor structure is generally robust, a few items consistently fail to correlate closely with their intended comp…
Ways of reflecting on trauma and adversity: Reading Psalm 90 through the lenses of feeling and thinking
In the wake of biblical trauma scholarship that identifies how traumatic experience has shaped biblical literatures and the Psalms in particular, interest has emerged in the potential therapeutic role of Psalm 90 in Christian-framed trauma therapies. Drawing on the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study tests the extent to which feeling types and thinking types read Psalm 90 differently. These two readings present different cha…
Evaluating Liturgical Engagement With Psalms of Lament: Reading Psalm 74 Through the Lenses of Feeling and Thinking
Recent trends in biblical scholarship that have generated new interest in the book of Psalms and in the voice of lamentation may in turn present new opportunities for the liturgical use of psalms of lament. Drawing on the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study tested the ways in which feeling types and thinking types may evaluate Psalm 74 differently. The data demonstrated that feeling types and thinking types approach a psalm …
Assessing Signs of Burnout Among Recently Ordained Stipendiary Anglican Curates In England
This study examines the responses of 253 recently ordained stipendiary Anglican curates in the Church of England to the Francis Burnout Inventory during their second year in ministry. The data confirm the internal consistency reliability among recently ordained clergy of the scales proposed by this measure: Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry, and Satisfaction in Ministry Scale. While positive affect is high, with 90% agreeing with the item…
Engaging Jungian function-orientations in a hermeneutical community: Exploring John 11: 1–17
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study invited a hermeneutical community of 23 type-aware participants to explore the account of the Death of Lazarus as reported in John 11: 1–17 within type-alike groups differentiated according to the participants’ dominant function-orientation. Five groups were constituted differentiating: introverted sensing, introverted intuition, e…
The psychological-type profile of cathedral worshippers
The psychological-type profile of Church of England lay people whose main place of worship was a cathedral was compared to that of worshippers whose main place of worship was a parish church. The sample, from two combined surveys of the Church of England employing the Francis Psychological Type Scales, comprised 231 cathedral worshippers and 3,322 parish-church worshippers. Those who worshipped in cathedrals showed a significantly higher preferen…
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: Predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services
This study draws on data provided to the Survey by 2,017 Anglicans (clergy and laity) living in England to explore the experiences of those leading and those accessing online (pre-recorded and live-streamed) and in-church services within the Church of England between January and July 2021. The data demonstrated that for both those leading services and those accessing services, online worship was less rewarding than inchurch worship, even as expre…
Space, the universe and everything: Listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022
High profile (and sometimes controversial) events and installations have drawn attention to innovation and public engagement within Anglican cathedrals.One strong category of such events and installations has promoted clear engagement with scientific themes.Taking the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation, Space, the Universe and Everything, as an example of such engagement, the present study examined the demographic and religious profile of 283…
Living in Sin? Religion and Cohabitation in Britain 1985–2005
Frequency of cohabitation among 13,703 adults from the British Social Attitudes data set for 1985–2005 peaked at around 26–30 years of age and increased significantly over the period of study. Cohabitation frequency was compared between those of no religious affiliation and Christian affiliates who (a) attended church at least once a month, (b) attended church but less than once a month, and (c) never attended church. Active Christians were 3.2 t…
Assessing Belief about the Bible: A Study among Anglican Laity
Bonding and bridging among first generation Asian migrants in Australian protestant churches
Around a third of Asian migrants to Australia self-identify as Christians, and many join churches where they meet fellow migrants and other Australians. Churches might thus be places that can foster the integration of Asian migrants into Australian society. This paper uses social network and social capital theory to examine the prevalence of bonding and bridging among 61,386 churchgoers from 2135 Protestant churches who completed the Australian N…
Work-Related Psychological Health among Clergy Serving in the Presbyterian Church (USA): Testing the Idea of Balanced Affect
Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect, the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) conceptualises good work-related psychological health among clergy in terms of negative affect being balanced by positive affect. In a random sample of 744 clergy (539 clergymen and 205 clergywomen) serving in The Presbyterian Church (USA), negative affect was assessed by the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry (SEEM) and positive affect was assessed by the…
How Did the Psychological Well-Being of Church of England Clergy and Laity Change From the First to the Third National Covid-19 Lockdowns
Viewing the impact of Covid-19 through the eyes of retired clergy
Although largely invisible in the ministry statistics published by the Church of England, ministry-active retired clergy continue to make an effective contribution to liturgical and pastoral provision. The present study compares the responses of 231 ministry-active retired clergy with the responses of 748 full-time stipendiary clergy to the Coronavirus, Church & You Survey, to test the contrasting theses that retired clergy may be seen either as …
Rejection of Darwinian Evolution Among Churchgoers in England: The Effects of Psychological Type
Rejection of Darwinian evolution (implying rejection of the common origin of all species, including humans) was assessed among 1,100 churchgoers from a range of Christian denominations in England. The main predictors of rejecting evolution were denominational affiliation and attendance. Individuals from Pentecostal or evangelical denominations were twice as likely to reject evolution compared with those from Anglican or Methodist churches. In all…
Psychological Type Profile of Roman Catholic Priests: An Empirical Enquiry in the United States
Biblical Literalism: A Test of the Compensatory Schema Hypothesis among Anglicans in England
The compensatory schema hypothesis (Hoffmann and Bartkowski, Soc Forces 86:1245-1272, 2008) has been used to explain why women seem to have higher levels of biblical literalism than men in some Christian denominations. Based on social structuration and gender theories, it proposes that biblical literalism is a key social schema in some denominations that deny women access to institutional power. Women compensate for the lack of access to institut…
Factors shaping biblical literalism: A study among Anglican laity
Biblical literalism was assessed among 404 adult Anglicans from a variety of church traditions using a summated rating scale based on 10 items referring to events in the Bible. The literalism scale showed high internal reliability (α = .92) and scores were highest (i.e. most literal) in Evangelical churches, intermediate in Broad churches and lowest in Anglo‐Catholic churches. Decisions about whether or not an event happened appeared to be based …
The Relationship of Psychological Type Preferences to Biblical Interpretation
This paper tests the theory that lay people prefer interpretations of the bible that match their psychological type preferences. A sample of 404 lay, adult Anglicans from 11 different churches read a healing story from Mark's gospel and then chose between interpretative statements designed to appeal to particular psychological type preferences. Psychological type preferences were assessed according Jung's typology using the Keirsey Temperament So…
Dimensions of belief about miraculous healing
Belief in divine intervention in illness or healing is related to religious belief in general (Furnham, A. (1994). Explaining health and illness: Lay beliefs on the nature of health.Personality and Individual Differences, 17, 455–466; Mansfield, C. J., Mitchell, J., & King, D. E. (2002). The doctor as God's mechanic? Beliefs in the Southeastern United States. Social Science and Medicine, 54, 399–409; Mitchell, J., & Weatherly, D. (2000). Beyond c…
Assessing Belief about the Bible: A Study among Anglican Laity
Feeling in and Falling Out: An individual differences approach to sense of belonging and frequency of disagreeing among Anglican congregations
Perceived levels of belonging and frequency of disagreeing with local teaching were assessed in a sample of 404 lay members of the Anglican Church in England. Belonging and disagreeing were inversely related, although occasional disagreement was common even among those who felt entirely at home in their church. The power of individual differences and external factors to predict sense of belonging and frequency of disagreeing was tested using mult…
Attitude Toward Homosexuality among Anglicans in England: The Effects of Theological Orientation and Personality
Disapproval of homosexuality (homonegativity) was assessed using a four-item summated scale in a sample of 7,295 readers of the Church Times who were regular worshippers at Anglican churches in England. The theological orientation of respondents was assessed on three scales measuring preference for liberal or conservative, catholic or evangelical, and charismatic or non-charismatic expressions of faith. Individual differences in personality were …
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 20
Changing patterns of religious affiliation, church attendance and marriage across five areas of Europe since the early 1980s: Trends and associations
This study draws on three waves of the European Values Survey (conducted between 1981 and 1984, between 1989 and 1993, and between 1999 and 2004) across five countries for which full data are available (Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain, and Sweden) in order to address five research questions. Question one examined changes in religious affiliation. Across all five countries, the proportions of the non‐affiliated incre…
Psychological Type and Biblical Interpretation among Anglican Clergy in the UK
A questionnaire measuring psychological type preferences and biblical interpretation was completed by 364 male and 354 female clergy ordained in the Anglican Church in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2007. Preferences among the perceiving functions (sensing versus intuition) and among the judging functions (feeling versus thinking) were assessed using the Francis Psychological Type Scales. Biblical interpretation was assessed by asking respondent…
Marriage, religion and human flourishing: How sustainable is the classic Durkheim thesis in contemporary Europe
This paper draws on the three waves of the European Values Survey across five countries (Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to investigate the relationship between indicators of positive psychology (conceptualised as feelings of happiness and satisfaction with life), religiosity (conceptualised as self-assigned religious affiliation and self-reported religious attendance) and marital status. The results dem…
Does Religion Make a Difference? Assessing the Effects of Christian Affiliation and Practice on Marital Solidarity and Divorce in Britain, 1985–2005
Frequency of divorce and separation among 15,714 adults from the British Social Attitudes data set for 1985–2005 peaked at around 50 years of age, and increased significantly over the period of study. Ratios of marital breakdown were compared between those of no religious affiliation and Christian affiliates with different levels of church attendance. Frequent Christian attendees were 1.5 times less likely to suffer marital breakdown than nonaffi…
Applying Psychological Type Theory to Cathedral Visitors: A Case Study of Two Cathedrals in England and Wales
This study uses Jungian psychological type theory to profile visitors to Chester Cathedral in England and St Davids Cathedral in Wales. Psychological type theory offers a fourfold psychographic segmentation of visitors, distinguishing between introversion and extraversion, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, and judging and perceiving. New data provided by 157 visitors to Chester Cathedral, considered alongside previously published data …
Living in Sin? Religion and Cohabitation in Britain 1985–2005
Frequency of cohabitation among 13,703 adults from the British Social Attitudes data set for 1985–2005 peaked at around 26–30 years of age and increased significantly over the period of study. Cohabitation frequency was compared between those of no religious affiliation and Christian affiliates who (a) attended church at least once a month, (b) attended church but less than once a month, and (c) never attended church. Active Christians were 3.2 t…
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 22
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. A special section is devoted to the issue of psychological type and religion and especially how psychological type can increase our understanding of Christian ministry. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering wit…
Outgroup prejudice, personality, and religiosity: Disentangling a complex web of relationships among adolescents in the UK
This cross-sectional study tested the idea that personality is indirectly related to outgroup prejudice through religiosity and through outgroup contact. A total of 2,756 White adolescents from Northern England completed a questionnaire that included measures of outgroup prejudice, extraversion, tough-mindedness, religiosity and outgroup contact. Correlation and path analysis indicated that extraversion had no direct effect on outgroup prejudice,…
Religious affect among adolescents in a multi-faith society: The role of personality and religious identity
A sample of 3783 11- to 16-year-old secondary school pupils completed the Astley-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Theistic Faith and the abbreviated form of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised together with information on personal religious practice (prayer), public religious practice (attendance) and religious identity (secular, Christian and Muslim). The data demonstrated that individual differences in religious affect are a co…
Assessing the Impact of Ordained Local Ministry on the Performance of Church of England Dioceses, 1991-2003
Throughout the 1990s the cases for and against ordained local ministry continued to be debated in the Church of England. By 2001, 20 dioceses had at least one ordained local minister and 23 had resisted this development. Drawing on data routinely published by the Church of England, the present study asks three questions of these two distinct segments of the Church. The first question compares the background characteristics of the two sets of dioc…
Research Note: Multi-faith Britain and Family Life: Changing Patterns of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Divorce among Different Faith Groups 1983–2005
(2011). Research Note: Multi-faith Britain and Family Life: Changing Patterns of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Divorce among Different Faith Groups 1983–2005. Journal of Contemporary Religion: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 33-41
Work-Related Psychological Health among Clergy Serving in the Presbyterian Church (USA): Testing the Idea of Balanced Affect
Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect, the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) conceptualises good work-related psychological health among clergy in terms of negative affect being balanced by positive affect. In a random sample of 744 clergy (539 clergymen and 205 clergywomen) serving in The Presbyterian Church (USA), negative affect was assessed by the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry (SEEM) and positive affect was assessed by the…
The Psychological Temperament of Anglican Clergy in Ordained Local Ministry (OLM): The Conserving, Serving Pastor
This study draws on psychological type theory as originally proposed by Jung (1971) and psychological temperament theory as proposed by Keirsey and Bates (1978) to explore the hypothesis that ordained local ministers (OLMs) within the Church of England reflect a psychological profile more in keeping with the profile of Church of England congregations than with the profile of established professional mobile clergy serving in the Church of England.…
Psychological-type profiles of biblical scholars: An empirical enquiry among members of the Society of Biblical Literature
Psychological type preferences of 333 biblical scholars (102 women and 231 men) were assessed using an on-line survey of members of the Society of Biblical Literature, who completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. Women showed preferences for introversion (74%) over extraversion (26%), thinking (67%) over feeling (33%), and judging (83%) over perceiving (17%), but no preference between sensing (49%) and intuition (51%). The two most freque…
Psychological-type profiles of churchgoers in England
A sample of 1156 churchgoers (651 women and 505 men) from a range of Christian denominations in England completed the Francis Psychological-Type Scales. Compared with psychological-type profiles published for the UK general population, both male and female churchgoers showed greater preferences for introversion over extraversion and judging over perceiving. Overall, there was a preference for sensing over intuition, but in both sexes this prefere…
Biblical literalism among Anglican clergy: What is the role of psychological type
The SIFT method of preaching argues that preachers should attend to the different learning styles implied by psychological type theory when preparing and delivering sermons. The evidence to date that supports the theory behind the method has mainly been based on offering readers of known psychological type a range of interpretations specifically created to appeal to particular type preferences. This paper extends these studies by looking at how a…
Psychological Type Profile of Roman Catholic Priests: An Empirical Enquiry in the United States
Biblical Literalism: A Test of the Compensatory Schema Hypothesis among Anglicans in England
The compensatory schema hypothesis (Hoffmann and Bartkowski, Soc Forces 86:1245-1272, 2008) has been used to explain why women seem to have higher levels of biblical literalism than men in some Christian denominations. Based on social structuration and gender theories, it proposes that biblical literalism is a key social schema in some denominations that deny women access to institutional power. Women compensate for the lack of access to institut…
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