Alicia McLean

Biographic Data

ID5155784
NAMEAlicia McLean
GIVEN NAMESAlicia
FAMILY NAMEMcLean
SIGNATUREMCLEAN A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Central Oklahoma
ORCID0000-0003-1144-3547
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Attachment to God Across Religions

    Open AccessAlicia McLean, Sarah Amin et al.ARTICLEReligions2026

    This study examined how attachment to parents influences attachment to God across Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Grounded in attachment theory and extending prior work on parental correspondence, participants from the United States and India completed measures of attachment to mothers, fathers, and God. Consistent with the correspondence hypothesis, parental attachment patterns mirrored attachment to God. For Christian participants, both avoi…

  • Behind the Badge

    Open AccessAlicia McLean, Margaret BeardARTICLEJournal of Police and Criminal…2026

  • Clinging to the Hands of a Distant God

    Open AccessAlicia McLean, Andrew J Marra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2026

    This study introduces a newly developed scale assessing Protestant theological beliefs on a Theological Openness/Biblical Literalism dimension (Study 1) and examines its relationship with attachment to God (Study 2). To establish validity, we conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the Protestant Theology Scale (PTS) and assessed its convergent and discriminant validity against established religious measures. We hypothesized tha…

  • Rejecting, Welcoming, Accepting, or Affirming? Theological Orientation, Marginalized Identity, and Attitudes Toward Religion

    Open AccessSelbi Kurbanova, Rachel Limke et al.ARTICLEReligions2026References: 48

    This study examined how Protestant theological orientation and marginalized social identity influence attitudes toward Christian denominations and religion more broadly. We tried to test whether greater theological openness predicts more affirming attitudes and whether marginalized identity moderates this relationship. A total of 479 adults completed measures of Protestant Theological Orientation (PTS), Attitudes Toward Denominations (ATD), Attit…

  • Shiver Me Timbers! Effects of Pornography Viewing on Partner, Relationship, and Sexuality Outcomes

    Open AccessAlicia McLeanARTICLESexuality & Culture2025Cited by: 2References: 23

  • Who's Your Daddy? Family Structure Differences in Attachment to God

    Open AccessMaurice S Murunga, Alicia McLean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2017

    Recent research has demonstrated that individuals' relationships with God are attachment-based. However, research has not yet investigated differences in attachment to God by parents' marital status. Thus, the goal of the present study was to examine these links. To do so, 288 undergraduate students completed measures assessing family structure, attachment to fathers, attachment to mothers, and attachment to God. Results suggest support for the c…