Joshua J Knabb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4491743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua J Knabb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua J |
| FAMILY NAME | Knabb |
| SIGNATURE | KNABB J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1305-0691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Relationship between God Attachment, Transdiagnostic Processes, and Symptoms of Psychopathology among Christian Adults
In this study, we drew from the psychology of religion and clinical literatures to investigate the relationship between insecure God attachment, key transdiagnostic processes, and symptoms of psychopathology. Specifically, with an archival sample of online Christian adults ( N = 437), we explored the potential mediating influence of three popular, well-researched constructs (i.e., experiential avoidance, intolerance of uncertainty, and repetitive…
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients: A Faith-Based Workbook
The Communion With God Scale: Shifting from an etic to emic perspective to assess fellowshipping with the Triune God
The Christian Contentment Scale: An Emic Measure for Assessing Inner Satisfaction within the Christian Tradition
In the present study, the authors developed the Christian Contentment Scale (CCS), an emic measure for assessing both the experience (i.e., inner satisfaction) and source (i.e., God) of contentment among Christian adults. First, the authors reviewed key writings from secular psychology, Buddhism, and Christianity to operationalize a definition of Christian contentment and generate an initial pool of 25 items for further analysis. Second, the auth…
“Walking with God”: Developing and pilot testing a manualised four-week program combining Christian meditation and light-to-moderate physical activity for daily stress
In the current study, the authors developed and pilot tested a manualized four-week program for Christian adults with daily stress, combining Christian meditation with light-to-moderate physical activity among a community sample of churchgoers (N = 8). Although Eastern-influenced mindful walking and yoga practices are quite popular in the contemporary psychology literature as interventions for a wide variety of psychological problems, we wanted t…
“Set your minds on things above”: Shifting from trauma-based ruminations to ruminating on God
In this study, the authors investigated the relationship between trauma-based “Christian rumination,” mindfulness, and focusing on God among an online sample of Christian adults (N = 234) from the United States. Participants endorsed experiencing a range of traumatic events, including natural disasters, car accidents, the death of loved ones, assault, and abuse, as well as the tendency to continue to think about the event. Using structural equati…
Surrendering to god’s providence: A three-part study on providence-focused therapy for recurrent worry (PFT-RW)
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients balances empirical evidence with theology to give clinicians a deep understanding of not just the "why" but also the "how" of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian clients. Chapters include a detailed exploration of the overlap between ACT and the Christian faith, case studies, and techniques that are explicitly designed to be accessible to non-Christian as well as Christian (including evangelical C…
Towards a Psychological Understanding of Servanthood: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Orthodox Beliefs, Experiential Avoidance, and Self-Sacrificial Behaviors among Christians a…
The authors utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationship between orthodox Christian beliefs, experiential avoidance, and self-sacrificial Christian behaviors among adults at a religiously-affiliated university. Results revealed that lower experiential avoidance was linked to more orthodox Christian beliefs, which, in turn, was related to more self-sacrificial Christian behaviors, similar to the acceptance and commitment…
“A Cord of Three Strands is Not Easily Broken”: An Empirical Investigation of Attachment-Based Small Group Functioning in the Christian Church
In this study, the authors explored the relationship between adult attachment, church-based small group attachment, psychological functioning, faith maturity, God attachment, and Christian orthodoxy among a sample of Christian adults in Southern California (N = 138). The authors hypothesized that insecure church-based small group attachment would be positively associated with psychological maladjustment and insecure God attachment, and negatively…
The role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between faith maturity, religious coping, and psychological adjustment among Christian university students
In the current study, the authors investigated the relationship between faith maturity, religious coping, experiential avoidance (EA), and psychological maladjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress) among a sample of Christian college students (N = 84). Findings revealed a strong positive correlation between faith maturity and positive religious coping, and weak negative correlations between faith maturity and negative religious coping and mala…
The relationship between problematic Internet use, God attachment, and psychological functioning among adults at a Christian university
In the present study, we utilised structural equation modelling (SEM) to investigate the relationship between God attachment and problematic Internet use, mediated by emotional distress. Findings supported the proposed hypothesis that anxious God attachment (i.e., anxiety about God's abandonment) predicts both problematic Internet use (i.e., obsessing about the Internet, neglecting tasks and relationships due to the Internet, struggling to contro…
Effects of Parental Divorce on God Image Among Young Adults at a Christian University
We used path analysis to investigate the impact of parental divorce on God image, mediated by father–child and mother–child attachments, among 178 college students at a Christian university. Findings revealed that parental divorce negatively impacts father–child attachment; however, father–child attachment does not impact God image. Instead, the quality of mother–child attachment, which does not seem to be influenced by parental divorce, best pre…
Towards an Integrated View of the Necessity of Human Interdependence: Perspectives From Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology
In this article, we attempt to formulate an integrated view of the necessity of human interdependence from the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and psychology. First, we discuss the social personalist model of the Trinity so as to understand the utility of relatedness from a theological perspective. Next, we review the philosophical concept of phenomenology in order to make sense of the relationship between humans and the world in which they …
Religious delusions and filicide: A psychodynamic model
In this article, we present a psychodynamic explanation for the complex crime of filicide motivated by religious delusions. To begin, we provide an overview of filicide, including its typology and epidemiology. Second, we examine the psychoanalytic theories of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg so as to better understand how family-of-origin experiences add to the ways in which psychotic disorders later take shape in filicide cases. Third, we offer an…
I Will Be Your God and You Will Be My People”: Attachment Theory and the Grand Narrative of Scripture
The Relationship Between Personality and Marital Adjustment Among Distressed Married Couples Seen in Intensive Marital Therapy: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis
Personality Typologies for Conservative Christians in Intensive Marital Therapy
In our study we used a two-step cluster analytic approach to identify personality typologies for conservative Christians seen in intensive marital therapy (N = 207). Sixteen Personality Factor Fifth Edition results revealed significant personality differences based on gender as well as five significantly different personality clusters: (1) abstract, deferential, trusting, and tolerates disorder; (2) reactive and deferential; (3) reserved, abstrac…
Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Evaluative knowledge is a ubiquitous—and seemingly indispensable—human phenomenon. Yet, writers from multiple disciplines (e.g., psychology, theology) have proposed that evaluating, categorizing, and judging—made possible by both verbal and nonverbal language—can directly contribute to human suffering. For example, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—the 20th century German theologian—argued that knowledge of good and evil produces disunion with God and death, r…
Centering Prayer as an Alternative to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Relapse Prevention
The Craftsman and His Apprentice: A Kohutian Interpretation of the Gospel Narratives of Jesus Christ
Renunciation of the self in psychotherapy
Self-renunciation or self-denial, although often misunderstood, is a foundational concept in several major religions and is frequently associated with spiritual maturity. In spite of this, the action of self-renunciation has been viewed with suspicion by the psychological community and criticized as repressive. This article argues that the concept of self-denial found in the Sufi tradition of rebirth and the salvation paradox found in the synopti…
Renunciation of the self in psychotherapy
Self-renunciation or self-denial, although often misunderstood, is a foundational concept in several major religions and is frequently associated with spiritual maturity. In spite of this, the action of self-renunciation has been viewed with suspicion by the psychological community and criticized as repressive. This article argues that the concept of self-denial found in the Sufi tradition of rebirth and the salvation paradox found in the synopti…
Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Evaluative knowledge is a ubiquitous—and seemingly indispensable—human phenomenon. Yet, writers from multiple disciplines (e.g., psychology, theology) have proposed that evaluating, categorizing, and judging—made possible by both verbal and nonverbal language—can directly contribute to human suffering. For example, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—the 20th century German theologian—argued that knowledge of good and evil produces disunion with God and death, r…
Centering Prayer as an Alternative to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Relapse Prevention
The Craftsman and His Apprentice: A Kohutian Interpretation of the Gospel Narratives of Jesus Christ
The Relationship Between Personality and Marital Adjustment Among Distressed Married Couples Seen in Intensive Marital Therapy: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis
Personality Typologies for Conservative Christians in Intensive Marital Therapy
In our study we used a two-step cluster analytic approach to identify personality typologies for conservative Christians seen in intensive marital therapy (N = 207). Sixteen Personality Factor Fifth Edition results revealed significant personality differences based on gender as well as five significantly different personality clusters: (1) abstract, deferential, trusting, and tolerates disorder; (2) reactive and deferential; (3) reserved, abstrac…
Towards an Integrated View of the Necessity of Human Interdependence: Perspectives From Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology
In this article, we attempt to formulate an integrated view of the necessity of human interdependence from the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and psychology. First, we discuss the social personalist model of the Trinity so as to understand the utility of relatedness from a theological perspective. Next, we review the philosophical concept of phenomenology in order to make sense of the relationship between humans and the world in which they …
Religious delusions and filicide: A psychodynamic model
In this article, we present a psychodynamic explanation for the complex crime of filicide motivated by religious delusions. To begin, we provide an overview of filicide, including its typology and epidemiology. Second, we examine the psychoanalytic theories of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg so as to better understand how family-of-origin experiences add to the ways in which psychotic disorders later take shape in filicide cases. Third, we offer an…
I Will Be Your God and You Will Be My People”: Attachment Theory and the Grand Narrative of Scripture
Effects of Parental Divorce on God Image Among Young Adults at a Christian University
We used path analysis to investigate the impact of parental divorce on God image, mediated by father–child and mother–child attachments, among 178 college students at a Christian university. Findings revealed that parental divorce negatively impacts father–child attachment; however, father–child attachment does not impact God image. Instead, the quality of mother–child attachment, which does not seem to be influenced by parental divorce, best pre…
Towards a Psychological Understanding of Servanthood: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Orthodox Beliefs, Experiential Avoidance, and Self-Sacrificial Behaviors among Christians a…
The authors utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationship between orthodox Christian beliefs, experiential avoidance, and self-sacrificial Christian behaviors among adults at a religiously-affiliated university. Results revealed that lower experiential avoidance was linked to more orthodox Christian beliefs, which, in turn, was related to more self-sacrificial Christian behaviors, similar to the acceptance and commitment…
“A Cord of Three Strands is Not Easily Broken”: An Empirical Investigation of Attachment-Based Small Group Functioning in the Christian Church
In this study, the authors explored the relationship between adult attachment, church-based small group attachment, psychological functioning, faith maturity, God attachment, and Christian orthodoxy among a sample of Christian adults in Southern California (N = 138). The authors hypothesized that insecure church-based small group attachment would be positively associated with psychological maladjustment and insecure God attachment, and negatively…
The role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between faith maturity, religious coping, and psychological adjustment among Christian university students
In the current study, the authors investigated the relationship between faith maturity, religious coping, experiential avoidance (EA), and psychological maladjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress) among a sample of Christian college students (N = 84). Findings revealed a strong positive correlation between faith maturity and positive religious coping, and weak negative correlations between faith maturity and negative religious coping and mala…
The relationship between problematic Internet use, God attachment, and psychological functioning among adults at a Christian university
In the present study, we utilised structural equation modelling (SEM) to investigate the relationship between God attachment and problematic Internet use, mediated by emotional distress. Findings supported the proposed hypothesis that anxious God attachment (i.e., anxiety about God's abandonment) predicts both problematic Internet use (i.e., obsessing about the Internet, neglecting tasks and relationships due to the Internet, struggling to contro…
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients balances empirical evidence with theology to give clinicians a deep understanding of not just the "why" but also the "how" of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian clients. Chapters include a detailed exploration of the overlap between ACT and the Christian faith, case studies, and techniques that are explicitly designed to be accessible to non-Christian as well as Christian (including evangelical C…
Surrendering to god’s providence: A three-part study on providence-focused therapy for recurrent worry (PFT-RW)
“Set your minds on things above”: Shifting from trauma-based ruminations to ruminating on God
In this study, the authors investigated the relationship between trauma-based “Christian rumination,” mindfulness, and focusing on God among an online sample of Christian adults (N = 234) from the United States. Participants endorsed experiencing a range of traumatic events, including natural disasters, car accidents, the death of loved ones, assault, and abuse, as well as the tendency to continue to think about the event. Using structural equati…
“Walking with God”: Developing and pilot testing a manualised four-week program combining Christian meditation and light-to-moderate physical activity for daily stress
In the current study, the authors developed and pilot tested a manualized four-week program for Christian adults with daily stress, combining Christian meditation with light-to-moderate physical activity among a community sample of churchgoers (N = 8). Although Eastern-influenced mindful walking and yoga practices are quite popular in the contemporary psychology literature as interventions for a wide variety of psychological problems, we wanted t…
The Communion With God Scale: Shifting from an etic to emic perspective to assess fellowshipping with the Triune God
The Christian Contentment Scale: An Emic Measure for Assessing Inner Satisfaction within the Christian Tradition
In the present study, the authors developed the Christian Contentment Scale (CCS), an emic measure for assessing both the experience (i.e., inner satisfaction) and source (i.e., God) of contentment among Christian adults. First, the authors reviewed key writings from secular psychology, Buddhism, and Christianity to operationalize a definition of Christian contentment and generate an initial pool of 25 items for further analysis. Second, the auth…
Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients: A Faith-Based Workbook
The Relationship between God Attachment, Transdiagnostic Processes, and Symptoms of Psychopathology among Christian Adults
In this study, we drew from the psychology of religion and clinical literatures to investigate the relationship between insecure God attachment, key transdiagnostic processes, and symptoms of psychopathology. Specifically, with an archival sample of online Christian adults ( N = 437), we explored the potential mediating influence of three popular, well-researched constructs (i.e., experiential avoidance, intolerance of uncertainty, and repetitive…
Psychology (20 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works)