Keith J Edwards

Biographic Data

ID4223969
NAMEKeith J Edwards
GIVEN NAMESKeith J
FAMILY NAMEEdwards
SIGNATUREEDWARDS K J
AFFILIATIONSBiola University
ORCID0000-0003-2283-1473
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS79
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • An Undeserved Gift from God

    Open AccessLindsay M Snow, M E L Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2023

    The reception of God’s grace is a salient spiritual experience and is one that lies at the heart of Christianity. The present study sought to address a gap in the psychological literature pertaining to the experience of divine grace among Protestant Christians in a qualitative study with 30 adult self-identified Protestant Christians. By using Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory data analysis, themes emerged to reveal how these Christians concei…

  • Growing in grace

    Lindsay M Snow, M E L Hall et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2023

    The perception that one is a recipient of divine grace is a salient spiritual experience and is one that lies at the heart of Christianity. This qualitative study sought to address a gap in the psychological literature regarding how the perceived experience of divine grace enacts internal change. For the sake of this study, grace was defined as God’s undeserved gifts to believers. Thirty adult, self-identified evangelical Christians were intervie…

  • The Congregational Character Questionnaire

    Open AccessT Ryan Byerly, Keith J Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2022

    Researchers in several academic disciplines have begun to take an interest in group character traits, including the character traits of religious congregations. This article reports the first empirical studies of congregational virtues. The Congregational Character Questionnaire was developed for measuring 12 different virtues of Christian churches: clinging to apostolic teaching, honoring teachers, prayerfulness, hopefulness, discipleship, emoti…

  • Tangible Experiences of Grace

    Open AccessHunter B Harwood, M E L Hall et al.ARTICLEPastoral Psychology2021Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Measuring Expatriate Cross-Cultural Stress

    Open AccessKeith J Edwards, Carley H Dodd et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2016

    This study reports a statistical modification of a psychometric expatriate adjustment survey (e.g., the CernySmith Assessment or CSA) applied to expatriate missionary and humanitarian workers and their families. Earlier CSA survey items assisted in a need for rapid response clinical assessment originating from clinical observations, literature with a factor analysis resulting in 20 subscales and 5 qualitative content domains (Organizational, Cult…

  • Relational Commitment as a Mediator of Religiousness to Marital Quality

    Open AccessJoel C Mitchell, Keith J Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2015

    This study examined the relationship between religiousness, relational commitment, and marital quality, proposing that relational commitment would act as a mediator in the relationship between religiousness and marital quality. Using a causal step approach to testing mediation, zero-order correlates demonstrated significant relationships among all 3 variables. In examining the mediating effects of relational commitment, full mediation for religio…

  • The Multidimensional Structure of the Quest Construct

    Open AccessKeith J Edwards, Todd W Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2011

    The study of religious motivation has been an important area of research in the psychology of religion since Allport and Ross (1967) developed their measure of intrinsic/extrinsic religion. Batson (1976) expanded the model of religious motivation by proposing the quest construct and its measurement with the Interactional Scale. Two additional measures of quest were developed by Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1992) and Dudley and Cruise (1990). Questio…

  • Religion and Sexism

    Open AccessLauren E Maltby, M E L Hall et al.ARTICLESex Roles2010Cited by: 11References: 6

  • Religious Orientation in Three Central European Environments

    Sergej Flere, Keith J Edwards et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2008Cited by: 3References: 7

    The concepts of intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest religiosity, as operationalized by tested instruments (CitationBatson & Schoenrade, 1991a, Citation1991b, CitationGorsuch & McPherson, 1989) were analyzed, tested, and validated in three different cultural settings in central Europe (among Bosnian Muslims, the Serbian Orthodox, and Slovenian Catholics). The study was carried out in spring 2005 on undergraduate university students. The study indicate…

  • The role of spiritual and psychological development in the cross-cultural adjustment of missionaries

    M E L Hall, Keith J Edwards et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2006

    The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual development, and both psychological development and cross-cultural adjustment in a group of missionaries. It was hypothesized that spiritual development would be positively related to psychological development as viewed from a relational psychodynamic perspective. It was also hypothesized that spiritual development would be positively related to psychological and sociocultural cros…

  • Psychological and Spiritual Predictors of Domains of Functioning and Effectiveness of Short-Term Missionaries

    Open AccessKeri L Barnett, Nancy S Duvall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2005

    The present study investigated how psychopathology, current object relations, and spiritual development relate to short-term missionary performance and psychological distress. Forty short-term missionaries completed questionnaires measuring psychopathology, object relations, and spirituality before going overseas. Participants and their supervisors completed questionnaires assessing performance and psychological distress before returning home. Pr…

  • It Takes a Village to save a Marriage

    Open AccessKeith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2003

    Dr. Keith Edwards answers questions that describe his approach to Christian marriage, marital interventions and sociocultural factors in American marriages. Integration issues are presented as well as the current state of research on marriage. He describes his clinical approach to treating distressed couples based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Specific approaches to improving marriages for communities, churches and therapists are discus…

  • The Spiritual Assessment Inventory

    Open AccessTodd W Hall, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2002Cited by: 16

    The Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) is a relationally-based measure designed to assess two dimensions of spiritual development: Awareness of God and Quality of Relationship with God. The present article reports the results of two studies: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of a revised SAI, which replicated five factors, and a factor analysis of a revised SAI with a new Impression Management (IM) subscale. Results supported the fac…

  • Measuring Religion and Spirituality

    Open AccessWill Slater, Todd W Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2001

    While the measurement of religion and spirituality has made significant progress in the past few decades, we have seen increasing criticism of the dominant paradigm in the psychology of religion–intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness. A variety of new measures have been developed, notwithstanding Gorsuch's (1984) admonition to the contrary. Religion and its post-modern offspring (spirituality) has become intensely personal, and the direction of th…

  • The Relationship of Object Relations Development to Cultural Adjustment in a Missionary Sample

    Open AccessM E L Hall, Nancy S Duvall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1999

    The present study investigated the relationship between level of object relations and cross-cultural adjustment in a missionary sample. It was hypothesized that the ego functions of current object relations, thought processes, reality testing, defensive functioning, and regulation of drives would be related to psychological and sociocultural adjustment. One hundred and sixty missionaries living in 46 countries completed a questionnaire assessing …

  • An Empirical Exploration of Psychoanalysis and Religion

    Todd W Hall, Beth Fletcher Brokaw et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1998Cited by: 5

    Todd W. Hall, Beth Fletcher Brokaw, Keith J. Edwards, Patricia L. Pike, An Empirical Exploration of Psychoanalysis and Religion: Spiritual Maturity and Object Relations Development, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 303-313

  • Research on Religious Issues

    Open AccessKeith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1997

  • Impact of Treatment on God Image and Personal Adjustment, and Correlations of God Image to Personal Adjustment and Object Relations Development

    Open AccessTheresa Clement Tisdale, Teresa L Key et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1997

    This study examined the effectiveness of a religiously-based, object relations oriented psychotherapy treatment program. Effectiveness was measured by changes in personal adjustment and God image for a group of religious patients. An inpatient sample (N = 99), with the predominant diagnosis of major depression, was followed over the course of inpatient treatment and a year of outpatient treatment following hospitalization. Measures were administe…

  • The Initial Development and Factor Analysis of the Spiritual Assessment Inventory

    Open AccessTodd W Hall, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1996

    The present article reports the development and factor analyses of a new, theoretically-based measure of spiritual maturity viewed from a Judeo-Christian perspective and designed for clinical use by pastoral counselors and psychotherapists, as well as researchers. The Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) is based on a model of spiritual maturity that integrates relational maturity from an object relations perspective and experiential God-awarenes…

  • Reply to Thurston

    Open AccessBeth Fletcher Brokaw, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1994

  • The Relationship of God Image to Level of Object Relations Development

    Open AccessBeth Fletcher Brokaw, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1994

    This study empirically tested the relationship of God image to level of object relations development in a Christian sample. Ninety-two undergraduate students from a religiously homogeneous population were tested with three measures of God image and three measures of object relations development. It was hypothesized that level of object relations development would show a significant positive correlation with images of God as loving and benevolent …

  • Cooperative Interaction in Desegregated Settings

    Open AccessNorman Miller, Marilynn B Brewer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1985Cited by: 29References: 15

    Several cooperative heterogeneous team‐learning interventions have been developed to promote improved intergroup relations in desegregated school settings. Despite their positive effects, little or no evidence demonstrates any generalization to new children or to children outside the classroom setting. Furthermore, social‐categorization theory suggests that some procedural aspects of these interventions interfere with these intended benefits. Dat…

  • A Comparison of Secular and Religious Versions of Cognitive Therapy with Depressed Christian College Students

    Open AccessDavid Richard Pecheur, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1984

    This study was designed to answer two related questions: (a) Could Beck's cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression be efficaciously employed in a religious population, and (b) would the efficacy of Beck's cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression be enhanced if it was integrated with the subjects’ religious beliefs? A multiple cutoff procedure was utilized in the selection of subjects for a secular cognitive behavior modification group, a …

  • A comparison of two sex-role androgyny measures in a study of sex-role identity for incarcerated delinquent and nondelinquent females

    Open AccessKeith J Edwards, Bert N NorcrossARTICLESex Roles1980Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Religious Values and their Effect on the Perception of a Therapist in a Psychotherapy Analogue

    Open AccessCarl D Haugen, Keith J EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1976

    The purpose of the study was, first, to determine whether labeling a taped therapist in terms of the therapist's religious value orientation (Christian/non-Christian) and interpersonal style (warm/cold) would change religious subjects’ perceptions of the relationship. Second, it was to determine whether the strength of attraction of the religious value orientation was greater than the interpersonal style. Seventy-one Christian evangelical undergr…