Lisa Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9271-5331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who counts as ‘us’? Latent profiles of moral inclusiveness, trauma history, and psychological wellbeing
Moral inclusiveness-the scope of one's moral circle-has traditionally been studied as a single, global trait. This study instead applied latent profile analysis (LPA) to uncover nuanced moral inclusiveness profiles spanning nested layers of relational proximity (family, community, global citizen, and nonhuman living beings). The study looked across four validated scales-Kindness, Compassion, Global-Mindedness, and Speciesism-and further examined …
Spiritual Growth and Mental Health Gains: Benefits of Awakened Awareness for U.S. College Students at Three-Month Follow-Up
Previous research has documented broad benefits of spiritual intervention programs, including improved spirituality and ameliorated mental health symptoms. However, long-term follow-up examinations of such interventions have yet to be conducted. This study reports on changes in psychological and spiritual variables from posttest to 3-month follow-up in a sample of U.S. undergraduate students. N = 84 undergraduate students ages 18–25 (M = 19.75, S…
Spirituality in Professional Higher Education
There is alarming psychological dysfunction within our universities. Depression, together with anxiety, substance abuse and chronic stress is widespread among students and faculty. Additionally, there is increasing evidence of growing cultural, racial, political and other social-borne friction on and around campuses. Clinical and epidemiological evidence suggests that spirituality could have protective benefits for mental health. But the current …
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right
The life course paradigm brought a focus on continuity and change in offending across the entire life span to criminology. Early research evolved to capture individual-level variation and the events, experiences and opportunities that functioned to spur change and alter behavioural trajectories. Though the notion that ‘lives change in a changing society’ (Elder et al. 1994: 11) is fundamental to the life course paradigm, the principle of historic…
A Love Supreme: Love's Associations with Well-Being, Anxiety, Depression, and Spirituality
In this study, we explored how people experience love and how these experiences are linked to their overall mental health, well-being, and spirituality. A total of 1499 U.S. adults completed a survey that measured six different aspects of love. Using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), we found evidence in support of four distinct profiles: High Love, Above-Average Love, Below-Average Love, and Low Love. The High Love group, which was characterized by…
The impact of perceived relationship to ancestors on the association between self-transcendence and psychopathology: A cross-cultural examination
Self-transcendence has been associated with lower levels of psychopathology. Most studies of self-transcendence have focused on samples of Western participants, and used scales addressing such concepts as self-awareness and feelings of oneness with the larger universe. However, a common Eastern notion of transcendence-perception of ongoing relationships with ancestors-has not been studied. We conducted a cross-cultural investigation of the associ…
Supporting sexual and gender minority college student wellness: Differential needs and outcomes in a spiritual–mind–body intervention
Self, Other, and Higher Power: A “Relational Triad” Moderates Associations Between Mystical Experience and Mental Health
A latent profile analysis of the five facets of mindfulness in a U.S. adult sample: Spiritual and psychological differences among four profiles
Awakened schools: The burning imperative of pedagogical relational culture
Inner Peace in a Global Crisis: A Case Study of Supported Spiritual Individuation in Acute Onset Phase of Covid-19
Emerging-adult undergraduates (ages 18-25) are at increased risk for mental illness, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, emerging adults face developmental tasks including identity development, finding meaning and purpose, and spiritual individuation. A case study approach is used to elucidate processes of undergraduates coping with collective trauma as a potential pathway to trauma-related spiritual growth via Awakened Awarenes…
Relational spirituality in K-12 education: A multi-case study
Relational spirituality describes ways in which people are connected to each other on a deeply spiritual level. This article presents a qualitative case study of three schools which shows how relational spirituality impacts education. At each of these schools, relational spirituality is a central driver of the school’s mission and purpose. Relational spirituality is life-changing for students at these schools; they were seen, known, and valued fo…
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems
A Spirituality Mind-Body Wellness Center in a University Setting; A Pilot Service Assessment Study
Increasing rates of mental illness among college students over the past 10 years suggest a collective deficit in meaning and purpose unattended to by many university campuses. Psychopathology among young adult college students is associated with developmental tasks such as spiritual individuation, suggesting that interventions aimed at spiritual wellbeing may support the stated need for comprehensive mental health services. The aim of this pilot …
The Dynamic Universal Profiles of Spiritual Awareness: A Latent Profile Analysis
The aim of the current investigation was to identify universal profiles of lived spirituality. A study on a large sample of participants (N = 5512) across three countries, India, China, and the United States, suggested there are at least five cross-cultural phenotypic dimensions of personal spiritual capacity-spiritual reflection and commitment; contemplative practice; perception of interconnectedness; perception of love; and practice of altruism…
Content Analysis of Spiritual Life in Contemporary USA, India, and China
This study investigates the lived-experience of spiritual life in contemporary USA, India, and China. A qualitative coding frame was constructed based on participant responses to open-ended questions regarding spirituality. Qualitative analysis was facilitated by the use of Dedoose, a mixed methods software. The exploratory approach of this study takes on a cross-culturally comparative lens, and has two primary questions: (1) What are the univers…
Spiritual Decline as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress
Many college students in the United States arrive on campus with exposure to both traumatic events and typical negative life events, as well as varying levels of emotional wellness. One way that students may seek out help is through spiritually supportive wellness programming. The current study examines the prevalence of and relationship between traumatic life events, typical negative life events, and spiritual growth and decline as predictors of…
Religiosity and Depression at Midlife: A Prospective Study
Objectives: Previously, authors found high personal importance of religion/spirituality (R/S) in early adulthood to predict a 75% decreased risk of recurrence of major depression in middle adulthood. Here, the authors follow up the original study sample to examine the association between R/S and major depression from middle adulthood into midlife. Method: Participants were 79 of 114 original adult offspring of depressed and non-depressed parents.…
The Pervasive Orienting Power of Religiousness and Spirituality: Reflections on the Special Section
This article serves as a brief commentary as part of the Special Section on Processes of Religious and Spiritual Influence in Adolescence, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. The commentary summarizes each of the focal pieces in the special section, and highlights overarching themes. One particular theme is that the Special Section as a whole demonstrates the broad and pervasive presence of religiosity and spirituality at all eco…
Reflections on the special section “qualitative and mixed methods research on relational spirituality”
Spiritual Development through the Chakra Progression: An Explorative Study of Empirically-Derived Profiles of Spiritual Connection
This pilot study investigates spiritual development as progressing in accordance with chakra theory. Chakra theory posits that spirituality emerges in a developmental monotonic fashion with increasing degrees of connection and spiritual awareness. People further into the progression generally show greater mental health and stronger character virtues, while individuals in earlier stages of development show greater pathology and lower levels of cha…
Mindfulness Interventions with Youth: A Meta-Analysis
Filling the Void: Spiritual Development Among Adolescents of the Affluent
Developmental Depression in Adolescents: A Potential Sub-type Based on Neural Correlates and Comorbidity
Spirituality and Positive Psychology Go Hand in Hand: An Investigation of Multiple Empirically Derived Profiles and Related Protective Benefits
Religious Identity Formation Among Bangladeshi American Muslim Adolescents
Although Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, very little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Muslim-Americans. In this pilot study, the first of its kind, the process of religious identity formation among Bangladeshi-American Muslim adolescents is explored. Sixteen participants (6 males) completed semistructured interviews, and this qualitative data was analyzed using a Grounded Theory approach. Based on the find…
Stepping up to Motherhood among Inner-City Teens
This mixed-methods, context-oriented study explored transitions to motherhood among pregnant and newly parenting inner-city teenagers ( n = 80) attending an alternative public school. Additionally, a novel research approach was assessed. Using data from a 2-year psychotherapy trial, inductive content analyses of therapy sessions and post hoc interviews of clinicians were synthesized with questionnaires and other more traditional data sources to d…
Perception and experience of types of social stress and self-image among adolescents
The Dynamic Universal Profiles of Spiritual Awareness: A Latent Profile Analysis
The aim of the current investigation was to identify universal profiles of lived spirituality. A study on a large sample of participants (N = 5512) across three countries, India, China, and the United States, suggested there are at least five cross-cultural phenotypic dimensions of personal spiritual capacity-spiritual reflection and commitment; contemplative practice; perception of interconnectedness; perception of love; and practice of altruism…
The Pervasive Orienting Power of Religiousness and Spirituality: Reflections on the Special Section
This article serves as a brief commentary as part of the Special Section on Processes of Religious and Spiritual Influence in Adolescence, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. The commentary summarizes each of the focal pieces in the special section, and highlights overarching themes. One particular theme is that the Special Section as a whole demonstrates the broad and pervasive presence of religiosity and spirituality at all eco…
Perception and experience of types of social stress and self-image among adolescents
Food sharing and feeding another person suggest intimacy; two studies of American college students
Ethnographic work indicates that food transfer has social significance, but food transfer has not previously been considered as a nonverbal communication channel. We categorize social food transfer along two dimensions: nature of the behaviour in the transfer (X shares food with or feeds Y), and the state of the food transferred (Y's food never contacted by X, or Y's food previously bitten/tasted/touched by X; we call the latter food consubstanti…
Beliefs about Responsibility and Improvement Associated with Liberal-Conservative Justice Beliefs
This study investigated the association between belief in the possibility of human improvement, beliefs about responsibility, and liberal-conservative beliefs about justice. 510 predominantly middle-class subjects were administered the Attributions of Responsibility Questionnaire and asked to respond to a series of policy-related issues concerning either distributive justice or retributive justice. Analyses indicated that liberal-conservative bel…
Religiosity and Substance Use and Abuse Among Adolescents in the National Comorbidity Survey
Counselling Skills for Social Work
Religious Identity among Christian Korean-American Adolescents
This exploratory study examined religious identity among Christian Korean-American adolescents. Marcia's 1966 model of identity formation, which conceptualizes identity along dimensions of exploration and commitment, provided the framework for the current study. 49 participants, between the ages of 14 and 19 years, completed the Duke Religion Index, the religion items from the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status, the Pan-denominatio…
Spiritual awareness pedagogy: The classroom as spiritual reality
Our theoretical orientation as educators is to teach with a spiritual foundation. Central to our perspective is that the classroom as an academic space is poised to facilitate profound spiritual evolution for students. A graduate course in psychotherapy using a Spiritual Awareness Pedagogy (SAP) offers students an opportunity to understand spiritual experience on the road to becoming psychologists, teachers, and healers. At the level of phenomeno…
Stepping up to Motherhood among Inner-City Teens
This mixed-methods, context-oriented study explored transitions to motherhood among pregnant and newly parenting inner-city teenagers ( n = 80) attending an alternative public school. Additionally, a novel research approach was assessed. Using data from a 2-year psychotherapy trial, inductive content analyses of therapy sessions and post hoc interviews of clinicians were synthesized with questionnaires and other more traditional data sources to d…
Religious Identity Formation Among Bangladeshi American Muslim Adolescents
Although Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, very little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Muslim-Americans. In this pilot study, the first of its kind, the process of religious identity formation among Bangladeshi-American Muslim adolescents is explored. Sixteen participants (6 males) completed semistructured interviews, and this qualitative data was analyzed using a Grounded Theory approach. Based on the find…
Watching for light: Spiritual psychology beyond materialism
Epilogue: Watching for light: Spiritual psychology beyond materialism
Parent and peer relationships and relational spirituality in adolescents and young adults
Religiosity and Major Depression in Adults at High Risk: A Ten-Year Prospective Study
OBJECTIVE: Previously the authors found that personal importance of religion or spirituality was associated with a lower risk for major depression in a study of adults with and without a history of depression. Here the authors examine the association of personal importance of religion or spirituality with major depression in the adult offspring of the original sample using a 10-year prospective longitudinal design. METHOD: Participants were 114 a…
Mindfulness Interventions with Youth: A Meta-Analysis
Filling the Void: Spiritual Development Among Adolescents of the Affluent
Developmental Depression in Adolescents: A Potential Sub-type Based on Neural Correlates and Comorbidity
Spirituality and Positive Psychology Go Hand in Hand: An Investigation of Multiple Empirically Derived Profiles and Related Protective Benefits
Support for Adolescent Spirituality: Contributions of Religious Practice and Trait Mindfulness
Inner Resources for Survival: Integrating Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Spiritual Visualization with Homeless Youth
Reflections on the special section “qualitative and mixed methods research on relational spirituality”
Spiritual Development through the Chakra Progression: An Explorative Study of Empirically-Derived Profiles of Spiritual Connection
This pilot study investigates spiritual development as progressing in accordance with chakra theory. Chakra theory posits that spirituality emerges in a developmental monotonic fashion with increasing degrees of connection and spiritual awareness. People further into the progression generally show greater mental health and stronger character virtues, while individuals in earlier stages of development show greater pathology and lower levels of cha…
The Pervasive Orienting Power of Religiousness and Spirituality: Reflections on the Special Section
This article serves as a brief commentary as part of the Special Section on Processes of Religious and Spiritual Influence in Adolescence, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. The commentary summarizes each of the focal pieces in the special section, and highlights overarching themes. One particular theme is that the Special Section as a whole demonstrates the broad and pervasive presence of religiosity and spirituality at all eco…
The future of Arctic sea-ice biogeochemistry and ice-associated ecosystems
A Spirituality Mind-Body Wellness Center in a University Setting; A Pilot Service Assessment Study
Increasing rates of mental illness among college students over the past 10 years suggest a collective deficit in meaning and purpose unattended to by many university campuses. Psychopathology among young adult college students is associated with developmental tasks such as spiritual individuation, suggesting that interventions aimed at spiritual wellbeing may support the stated need for comprehensive mental health services. The aim of this pilot …
The Dynamic Universal Profiles of Spiritual Awareness: A Latent Profile Analysis
The aim of the current investigation was to identify universal profiles of lived spirituality. A study on a large sample of participants (N = 5512) across three countries, India, China, and the United States, suggested there are at least five cross-cultural phenotypic dimensions of personal spiritual capacity-spiritual reflection and commitment; contemplative practice; perception of interconnectedness; perception of love; and practice of altruism…
Psychology (36 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (27 works) · Spirituality (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Psychotherapist (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)