Rodger K Bufford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5837748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodger K Bufford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodger K |
| FAMILY NAME | Bufford |
| SIGNATURE | BUFFORD R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Fox University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7494-2234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale in the Polish Catholic Setting
The population of Poland could be of particular interest to researchers studying religion and spirituality. Catholicism has played a significant role in shaping the country’s culture, history, and tradition and is considered a national religion. More recently, however, the processes of moving away from regular participation in religious services and loosening ties with the institution of the Catholic Church are marked (Polish Public Opinion Resea…
Psychological and spiritual factors affecting well-being among military personnel engaged in remote combat
The strongest predictors of distress were lack of meaning and feeling overextended at work. Emotional exhaustion and low existential well-being identified distressed crewmembers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Assessing adult attachment
Assessing attachment is essential yet challenging. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) provides the best appraisal of adult attachment but is time-intensive and costly. Likewise, concerns have been raised regarding the Berkeley-AAI coding and classification method. Meanwhile, self-report measures of adult attachment are time-efficient and low-cost, but their validity is questionable. The Dynamic-Maturational Model approach to the AAI (DMM-AAI) a…
Dimensions of grace
Measuring grace is challenging. Prior research found the Grace Scale (GS), Richmont Grace Scale (RGS), and The Amazing Grace Scale (TAGS) to be reliable, have promising convergent and divergent validity, and to inter-correlate strongly. However, they may tap different constructs, or grace may be multidimensional (Bufford, Blackburn, Sisemore, & Bassett, 2015). Here two exploratory factor analyses of the combined items showed five factors: experie…
A Gratitude Intervention in a Christian Church Community
This field experiment examined the effects of a gratefulness intervention in the context of a Christian church congregation. Two Christian congregations with comparable demographic and socio-economic characteristics were enrolled and assigned to the experimental and comparison conditions. The gratitude intervention was developed collaboratively with church leaders. Though within-subject effects were found for psychological well-being, spiritual w…
Preliminary Analyses of Three Measures of Grace
Grace is an interesting and potentially significant domain within positive psychology, but remains largely neglected. The present study examined the relationships among three known grace scales to evaluate the potential for creating a stronger single measure. It also explored their relationships to several other religious/spiritual measures to examine whether the three scales are measuring the same construct, to explore the implications for our u…
Resolving Anger toward God
Psychologists have mostly overlooked the topic of anger toward God. The current study tested an intervention based on the biblical psalms of lament, consisting of 20 devotional readings and weekly experiential assignments, delivered electronically over a four-week period. A total of 192 college students at Christian institutions across the United States completed the study, and were randomly assigned to the experimental condition, an attention co…
Special Reviewers
Consecrated Counseling
Authors seeking to clarify the distinctives of Christian counseling have chiefly emphasized (a) the context of counseling—church and parachurch settings, (b) the context or intervention techniques and the topics addressed in counseling, (c) the motivations or goals of counseling—conversion, discipleship, and service, and (d) counselor characteristics—assumptions/world view, personal relationship with God, and ecclesiastical role (e.g., pastoral).…
Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Enrichment among Church and Non-Church Groups
The effects of a cognitive-behavioral marital workshop given to couples from diverse church and non-church groups were examined to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach to marital enrichment in a quasi-experimental outcome study. With pretest scores on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) held constant, all groups showed significant treatment effects, with effect size ranging from .97 to 1.20. There were no differences among groups, no gender …
Norms for the Spiritual Weil-Being Scale
As part of the growing interest in quality of life and subjective well-being, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale was constructed to measure the spiritual dimension. Research has shown good reliability for the scale and has provided encouraging support for its validity. It indicates well-being in a variety of spheres, including physical and mental health, psychological adjustment, and assertiveness. However, no norms have been published and little des…
The Church and Community Mental Health; Unrealized Potential
During the past two decades the community mental health approach has enjoyed rapid growth and broad acceptance. Widespread human need, limited professional resources, and the high cost of professional services are major factors which contributed to these developments. Economic considerations, however, have proven to be a major factor limiting implementation of the community mental health approach. The church has great potential to promote communi…
On the Possibility of Integration
In his article “Myth and its Denial in a Secular Age” McKeown (1981) presents what appears on the surface to be a critique of Skinner's behavioral approach. Careful analysis, however, suggests that his arguments could be applied to a variety of other theories and that his attack is really on the integration approach as such. Three aspects of McKeown's comments are examined: his objections to integration, problem areas in his critique of Skinner's…
God and Behavior Mod Ii
The major point of Bufford (1977) was to affirm the value of behavioral psychology as a body of knowledge and as a technology. The central thrust of Vos’ response is to reject behavioral psychology as a world view or metaphysic. Vos goes on to assert that behavior modification, as an application of this world view, is in conflict with the biblical view of man. Whether such conflict in fact exists depends fundamentally in the definition of behavio…
God and Behavior Mod
Similarities and contrasts between various biblical principles and behavioral approaches related to establishing positive behavior and eliminating negative behavior are discussed. Examination of the Bible reveals that it is to a substantial degree a behavior-oriented book. Similarities between biblical principle and behavior technology are shown. Although precautions must be taken in adopting a particular behavioral approach to ascertain whether …
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God and Behavior Mod
Similarities and contrasts between various biblical principles and behavioral approaches related to establishing positive behavior and eliminating negative behavior are discussed. Examination of the Bible reveals that it is to a substantial degree a behavior-oriented book. Similarities between biblical principle and behavior technology are shown. Although precautions must be taken in adopting a particular behavioral approach to ascertain whether …
God and Behavior Mod Ii
The major point of Bufford (1977) was to affirm the value of behavioral psychology as a body of knowledge and as a technology. The central thrust of Vos’ response is to reject behavioral psychology as a world view or metaphysic. Vos goes on to assert that behavior modification, as an application of this world view, is in conflict with the biblical view of man. Whether such conflict in fact exists depends fundamentally in the definition of behavio…
On the Possibility of Integration
In his article “Myth and its Denial in a Secular Age” McKeown (1981) presents what appears on the surface to be a critique of Skinner's behavioral approach. Careful analysis, however, suggests that his arguments could be applied to a variety of other theories and that his attack is really on the integration approach as such. Three aspects of McKeown's comments are examined: his objections to integration, problem areas in his critique of Skinner's…
The Church and Community Mental Health; Unrealized Potential
During the past two decades the community mental health approach has enjoyed rapid growth and broad acceptance. Widespread human need, limited professional resources, and the high cost of professional services are major factors which contributed to these developments. Economic considerations, however, have proven to be a major factor limiting implementation of the community mental health approach. The church has great potential to promote communi…
Norms for the Spiritual Weil-Being Scale
As part of the growing interest in quality of life and subjective well-being, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale was constructed to measure the spiritual dimension. Research has shown good reliability for the scale and has provided encouraging support for its validity. It indicates well-being in a variety of spheres, including physical and mental health, psychological adjustment, and assertiveness. However, no norms have been published and little des…
Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Enrichment among Church and Non-Church Groups
The effects of a cognitive-behavioral marital workshop given to couples from diverse church and non-church groups were examined to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach to marital enrichment in a quasi-experimental outcome study. With pretest scores on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) held constant, all groups showed significant treatment effects, with effect size ranging from .97 to 1.20. There were no differences among groups, no gender …
Consecrated Counseling
Authors seeking to clarify the distinctives of Christian counseling have chiefly emphasized (a) the context of counseling—church and parachurch settings, (b) the context or intervention techniques and the topics addressed in counseling, (c) the motivations or goals of counseling—conversion, discipleship, and service, and (d) counselor characteristics—assumptions/world view, personal relationship with God, and ecclesiastical role (e.g., pastoral).…
Special Reviewers
Resolving Anger toward God
Psychologists have mostly overlooked the topic of anger toward God. The current study tested an intervention based on the biblical psalms of lament, consisting of 20 devotional readings and weekly experiential assignments, delivered electronically over a four-week period. A total of 192 college students at Christian institutions across the United States completed the study, and were randomly assigned to the experimental condition, an attention co…
Preliminary Analyses of Three Measures of Grace
Grace is an interesting and potentially significant domain within positive psychology, but remains largely neglected. The present study examined the relationships among three known grace scales to evaluate the potential for creating a stronger single measure. It also explored their relationships to several other religious/spiritual measures to examine whether the three scales are measuring the same construct, to explore the implications for our u…
Dimensions of grace
Measuring grace is challenging. Prior research found the Grace Scale (GS), Richmont Grace Scale (RGS), and The Amazing Grace Scale (TAGS) to be reliable, have promising convergent and divergent validity, and to inter-correlate strongly. However, they may tap different constructs, or grace may be multidimensional (Bufford, Blackburn, Sisemore, & Bassett, 2015). Here two exploratory factor analyses of the combined items showed five factors: experie…
A Gratitude Intervention in a Christian Church Community
This field experiment examined the effects of a gratefulness intervention in the context of a Christian church congregation. Two Christian congregations with comparable demographic and socio-economic characteristics were enrolled and assigned to the experimental and comparison conditions. The gratitude intervention was developed collaboratively with church leaders. Though within-subject effects were found for psychological well-being, spiritual w…
Assessing adult attachment
Assessing attachment is essential yet challenging. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) provides the best appraisal of adult attachment but is time-intensive and costly. Likewise, concerns have been raised regarding the Berkeley-AAI coding and classification method. Meanwhile, self-report measures of adult attachment are time-efficient and low-cost, but their validity is questionable. The Dynamic-Maturational Model approach to the AAI (DMM-AAI) a…
Psychological and spiritual factors affecting well-being among military personnel engaged in remote combat
The strongest predictors of distress were lack of meaning and feeling overextended at work. Emotional exhaustion and low existential well-being identified distressed crewmembers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale in the Polish Catholic Setting
The population of Poland could be of particular interest to researchers studying religion and spirituality. Catholicism has played a significant role in shaping the country’s culture, history, and tradition and is considered a national religion. More recently, however, the processes of moving away from regular participation in religious services and loosening ties with the institution of the Catholic Church are marked (Polish Public Opinion Resea…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works)