James A Beshai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5378511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Beshai |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Beshai |
| SIGNATURE | BESHAI J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanon VA Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Belief in a Day of Judgment and locus of control in university students from three nations
The aim of the study was to explore the association between Belief in Day of Judgment (BDJ) and belief in locus of control (LCS) in samples from three nations: Iran, Turkey and the USA. A scale devised by Beshai and Lester to measure Belief in a Day of Judgment (BDJS) and Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale (MLCS) for internal, powerful others, or chance loci of control were administered to 386 students. Age was not associated with BDJ in the…
Religious spiritual well-being
The aim of the present study was to compare religious spiritual well-being between three Muslim Iranian samples: old and middle-aged adults, university students and psychiatric outpatients. The sample was a convenience sample of 561 individuals in Tehran, Iran, who completed the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB 48). The psychiatric outpatients had lower General Religiosity (GR), Hope Transcendent (HT), Transc…
Validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-being with Iranian samples
This study was designed to investigate the validation of a Farsi version of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-being (MI RSWB 48) in a convenience sample of 442 Iranian people. Respondents completed a series of demographic questions and the MI RSWB 48. The Cronbach's α coefficient was .82. The MI RSWB 48 items identified two factors, but these factors did not match the two dimensions for which the scale was devised. The H…
Martin Luther King Jr.—On love and justice
The relationship between NEO personality factors and Hoge’s Intrinsic Religious Motivation
Personality traits have shown variable relationships to measures of religious motivation. For example, Costa and McCrae (1985) and McCrae and Costa (1999) suggested that individuals who are high in agreeableness and conscientious gravitate toward religion once they ‘meet’ with religion as a cultural identity Openness to experience involves varied expressions including sensitivity to aesthetics, and egalitarian values (e.g. McCrae and Costa 1996).…
Erwin Straus on the way to neurophenomenology
Belief in a Day of Judgment and Death Anxiety
The reliability of a scale to measure belief in a day of judgment was assessed using a sample of 162 undergraduate students. The scale had good reliability, and 12 of the 20 items constituted a homogenous subset of items. Scores on the scale were moderately associated with scores on a traditional religiosity scale, but were not associated with fears of death and dying
Islamic Ontology of Death Anxiety in the Work of Abdel-Khalek
This is a book review of Abdel-Khalek's (2005) Arabic Handbook on “Death and Dying.” This review extrapolates the Islamic ontology presented in 492 pages covering 56 empirical and 304 empirical studies published by a host of Arab, American and European psychologists and psychiatrists. The Handbook presents an Islamic ontology on death anxiety for the first time to English readers. Freud's Judeo-Christian view of death anxiety is already familiar …
Dialogue with Donald Templer
Dr. Donald Templer is retired Professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University and a consultant on Death Anxiety and thanatology. He was recognized by APA for leading the movement for research on death anxiety which extends to many countries all over the world. His Templer Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS) received acclaim since its publication in 1970. He authored five books and eleven assessment instruments. Dr. Templer's (1967) do…
Sanctity of Human Life in War
This reflective paper focuses on the moral and ethical difficulties medical care providers meet in applying DSM-IV criteria of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in therapy and in Compensation and Pension Examinations. Providers may be less interested in articulating a philosophy of life or their own ontology than about documenting care for the patient or providing effective management of symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The veteran comes …
Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Hypnosis
Existential Perspectives on Death Anxiety
Construct validity is the hallmark of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970), which has generated a healthy stream of research of paramount importance in the USA and all over the world. This paper contends that scores on this scale provide valuable scientific knowledge on group norms. To expand the concept of death anxiety it is necessary to supplement empirical with qualitative research. Persons with the same scores may show qualitatively differen…
Toward a Phenomenology of Trance Logic in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Some induction procedures result in trance logic as an essential feature of hypnosis. Trance logic is a voluntary state of acceptance of suggestions without the critical evaluation that would destroy the validity of the meaningfulness of the suggestion. Induction procedures in real and simulated conditions induce a conflict between two contradictory messages in experimental hypnosis. In military induction the conflict is much more subtle involvin…
Constructions of Religiosity and Death Anxiety in Two Cultures
Religiosity seems to moderate death anxiety, but not in all groups. The two constructs apparently are related mostly among those who are high in intrinsic religiosity or low in death anxiety, or both. Age seems to be an important factor in the development of this relationship. Samples from Kuwait (N = 294) and the United States (N = 279) completed instruments to assess death anxiety and intrinsic religious motivation. The Kuwaitis scored much hig…
The Structure of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale among Egyptian Students
Using a standardized Arabic version of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale with Egyptian students (214 males and 214 females), five factors were extracted which corresponded to those reported for several cultures in Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Means for the Egyptian students of both sexes were significantly higher than those reported in Arab and western cultures. Egyptian female students scored significantly higher than males. The first two fa…
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The Structure of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale among Egyptian Students
Using a standardized Arabic version of the Templer Death Anxiety Scale with Egyptian students (214 males and 214 females), five factors were extracted which corresponded to those reported for several cultures in Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Means for the Egyptian students of both sexes were significantly higher than those reported in Arab and western cultures. Egyptian female students scored significantly higher than males. The first two fa…
Constructions of Religiosity and Death Anxiety in Two Cultures
Religiosity seems to moderate death anxiety, but not in all groups. The two constructs apparently are related mostly among those who are high in intrinsic religiosity or low in death anxiety, or both. Age seems to be an important factor in the development of this relationship. Samples from Kuwait (N = 294) and the United States (N = 279) completed instruments to assess death anxiety and intrinsic religious motivation. The Kuwaitis scored much hig…
Existential Perspectives on Death Anxiety
Construct validity is the hallmark of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (1970), which has generated a healthy stream of research of paramount importance in the USA and all over the world. This paper contends that scores on this scale provide valuable scientific knowledge on group norms. To expand the concept of death anxiety it is necessary to supplement empirical with qualitative research. Persons with the same scores may show qualitatively differen…
Toward a Phenomenology of Trance Logic in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Some induction procedures result in trance logic as an essential feature of hypnosis. Trance logic is a voluntary state of acceptance of suggestions without the critical evaluation that would destroy the validity of the meaningfulness of the suggestion. Induction procedures in real and simulated conditions induce a conflict between two contradictory messages in experimental hypnosis. In military induction the conflict is much more subtle involvin…
Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Hypnosis
Sanctity of Human Life in War
This reflective paper focuses on the moral and ethical difficulties medical care providers meet in applying DSM-IV criteria of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in therapy and in Compensation and Pension Examinations. Providers may be less interested in articulating a philosophy of life or their own ontology than about documenting care for the patient or providing effective management of symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The veteran comes …
Dialogue with Donald Templer
Dr. Donald Templer is retired Professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University and a consultant on Death Anxiety and thanatology. He was recognized by APA for leading the movement for research on death anxiety which extends to many countries all over the world. His Templer Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS) received acclaim since its publication in 1970. He authored five books and eleven assessment instruments. Dr. Templer's (1967) do…
Islamic Ontology of Death Anxiety in the Work of Abdel-Khalek
This is a book review of Abdel-Khalek's (2005) Arabic Handbook on “Death and Dying.” This review extrapolates the Islamic ontology presented in 492 pages covering 56 empirical and 304 empirical studies published by a host of Arab, American and European psychologists and psychiatrists. The Handbook presents an Islamic ontology on death anxiety for the first time to English readers. Freud's Judeo-Christian view of death anxiety is already familiar …
Belief in a Day of Judgment and Death Anxiety
The reliability of a scale to measure belief in a day of judgment was assessed using a sample of 162 undergraduate students. The scale had good reliability, and 12 of the 20 items constituted a homogenous subset of items. Scores on the scale were moderately associated with scores on a traditional religiosity scale, but were not associated with fears of death and dying
The relationship between NEO personality factors and Hoge’s Intrinsic Religious Motivation
Personality traits have shown variable relationships to measures of religious motivation. For example, Costa and McCrae (1985) and McCrae and Costa (1999) suggested that individuals who are high in agreeableness and conscientious gravitate toward religion once they ‘meet’ with religion as a cultural identity Openness to experience involves varied expressions including sensitivity to aesthetics, and egalitarian values (e.g. McCrae and Costa 1996).…
Erwin Straus on the way to neurophenomenology
Martin Luther King Jr.—On love and justice
Validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-being with Iranian samples
This study was designed to investigate the validation of a Farsi version of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-being (MI RSWB 48) in a convenience sample of 442 Iranian people. Respondents completed a series of demographic questions and the MI RSWB 48. The Cronbach's α coefficient was .82. The MI RSWB 48 items identified two factors, but these factors did not match the two dimensions for which the scale was devised. The H…
Religious spiritual well-being
The aim of the present study was to compare religious spiritual well-being between three Muslim Iranian samples: old and middle-aged adults, university students and psychiatric outpatients. The sample was a convenience sample of 561 individuals in Tehran, Iran, who completed the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB 48). The psychiatric outpatients had lower General Religiosity (GR), Hope Transcendent (HT), Transc…
Belief in a Day of Judgment and locus of control in university students from three nations
The aim of the study was to explore the association between Belief in Day of Judgment (BDJ) and belief in locus of control (LCS) in samples from three nations: Iran, Turkey and the USA. A scale devised by Beshai and Lester to measure Belief in a Day of Judgment (BDJS) and Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale (MLCS) for internal, powerful others, or chance loci of control were administered to 386 students. Age was not associated with BDJ in the…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (8 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (8 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Death anxiety (5 works)