Stephen Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 98895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7171-3356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 108 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 104 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Perspectives and opportunities for the intensive use of biochar in Brazil
The use of biochar technology in Brazil holds significant promise for advancing the principles of a circular economy, addressing pressing environmental challenges, and fostering sustainable development. Despite its great potential, biochar production and scale use remain strikingly limited in Brazil. Here, we explored the multifaceted potential of biochar in Brazil, focusing on its capacity to promote circularity, create novel inputs for agricult…
Training Motivational Interviewing for Practitioner Proficiency: An exploratory study in Estonia
Investigating the Associations Between Minority Stressors and Sexual Orientation Disclosure in Primary Care in a Sample of Sexual Orientation Minorities in Canada
Wellbeing and the importance of going “out of the realm of the classroom: Secondary School Teachers’ Perspectives
Schools play a central role in supporting young people affected by mental health issues. This article reports a reflexive thematic analysis of focus group and interview data with English secondary teachers about their perspectives on mental health and wellbeing in schools. Data were collected during the pandemic year 2020-2021, with a research focus on evolving school practice for wellbeing. Our results show that although teachers recognised a sh…
Dispositional authenticity, facilitativeness, femininity ideology, and dyadic relationship functioning in opposite‐gender couples: Actor‐partner interdependence analysis
This prospective study examined (a) the mediating roles of Carl Rogers' facilitative interpersonal conditions (i.e., genuineness, empathic understanding, and unconditional positive regard) and (b) the moderating roles of femininity ideology in the association between dispositional authenticity and dyadic relationship functioning using a dyadic approach. Participants, 239 opposite‐gender couples, completed the Authenticity Scale, Barrett‐Lennard R…
The confluence of authenticity and mindfulness: Principal component analysis of the Authenticity Scale and the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
The concepts of authenticity and mindfulness have recently attracted much empirical research. Although these concepts appear to represent different phenomena and are regarded as independent research foci with their own theoretical heritage and research trajectory, they also share considerable empirical convergence. This led us to speculate that measures of these two aspects of human experience, although using different language, are in fact measu…
Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI: (Mini) using item response theory
The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI; Barrett-Lennard, (2015). The Relationship Inventory A Complete Resource and Guide. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-201602103917 ) is the most widely used measure of the facilitative conditions described by Carl Rogers as important for constructive personality development in his person-centered theory. At with 64 items it is however time consuming for participants to complete, and even i…
Dispositional authenticity, internalised homonegativity, and relationship quality in same-gender couples: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model
The authors received no funding for this study
Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives
The mental health and wellbeing of young people is increasingly a concern in schools. This study explores how English secondary school teachers perceive and engage with the concept of wellbeing. By asking teachers to reflect on their practice, we can draw out their relational experience and knowledge about wellbeing in the classroom. Twenty teachers were interviewed about their practice in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and during the acade…
Being yourself for the ‘greater good’: An empirical investigation of the moderation effect of authenticity between self-compassion and compassion for others
Self-compassion offers profound benefits to well-being and healthy psychological functioning. Surprisingly however, the relationship assumed between compassion for self and others has been questioned by recent research findings and is at best inconsistently correlated. The aim of this study is to throw further light on this debate by testing whether the association between self-compassion and compassion for others is moderated by authenticity amo…
Benefit finding moderates the relationship between young carer experiences and mental well-being
Objective: Research has shown that some young carers face many negative consequences because of their caring experiences, whereas others seem to be unaffected or even report greater well-being. To understand how caring for a family member or close friend can have these different effects, this study compared benefit finding between young carers and their peers and examined its association with mental well-being. Design: We recruited 2,525 adolesce…
Examining the structure of authenticity: A factor analytic study of the Authenticity Scale and Authenticity Inventory Subscales
Authenticity has received much empirical research attention in recent years. It is currently often measured using one of two psychometric tools - The Authenticity Scale (AS) and The Authenticity Inventory (AI). Although the development of both was influenced by similar theoretical ideas, their operational definitions are different. The AS consists of three subscales of authentic living, self-alienation, and accepting external influence, whereas t…
Research and Innovation for and with Adolescent Young Carers to Influence Policy and Practice—The European Union Funded “ME-WE” Project
Young carers are children and adolescents who provide care to other family members or friends, taking over responsibilities that are usually associated with adulthood. There is emerging but still scarce knowledge worldwide about the phenomenon of young carers and the impact of a caring role on their health, social and personal development spheres. This paper provides an overview of the main results from the ME-WE project, which is the first Europ…
The first cross-national study of adolescent young carers aged 15–17 in six European countries
For the first time, this article will provide a cross-national profile of adolescents who provide unpaid care to their ill or disabled family members in six European countries with varied levels of awareness, policy and service provision regarding adolescent young carers. Utilising an online survey, 2,099 adolescent young carers were identified in Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. This article focuses on the impact…
From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools
Psychological Formulation, a Critical Viewpoint: Illness Ideology in Disguise
Recent years have seen a surge of interest by clinical psychologists in the idea of psychological formulation. Interest in this idea has also been shown by humanistic psychologists as evidenced by a recent issue of this journal, in which formulation is offered as a possible antidote to diagnosis. In this article, I examine the idea of formulation from the viewpoint of client-centered therapy, offering a critical perspective and concluding that as…
Sucking Results Out of Children’ Reflective Lifeworld Case Study of a Primary School Teacher Striving for Authenticity
This qualitative study presents an analysis of the experiences of a teacher who had recently left working in an England state funded primary school. Using reflective lifeworld methodology, this study explored the teacher’s struggle to be authentic in the context of state funded education. Three prominent themes were identified as: 1) enhancement of every learner; 2) systemic oppression; and 3) tensions in being a teacher. The study concludes that…
Isolation, self-blame and perceived invalidation in aid personnel: Identifying humanitarian-specific distress using the PostAID/Q
Client-centred therapeutic relationship conditions and authenticity: A prospective study
The aim was to investigate the association between experiencing a therapeutic relationship and subsequent authenticity. Forty-six clients completed the Barrett–Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-LRI), Relational Depth Inventory (RDI), a measure of the therapeutic alliance (ARM-5) and the Authenticity Scale (AS) at intervals over 10 therapy sessions. Higher scores on the B-LRI at sessions 3, 5 and 10 were associated with an increase in authenticity…
A systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative research into teachers’ authenticity
Posttraumatic growth as a process and an outcome: Vexing problems and paradoxes seen from the perspective of humanistic psychology
The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) from the perspective of humanistic psychology. Research findings in PTG have posed what seem to be challenging theoretical questions. Questions that seem perplexing or paradoxical to mainstream research are: whether PTG is a normative process, if it is better described as personality change, what its relationship is with PTSD, if PTG is the same as resilience, if PTG …
Measurement Invariance of the English, Chinese, and Spanish Versions of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory
The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory was designed to assess the extent to which a person experiences unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and genuineness in a relationship. This study (N = 1,286) investigated measurement invariance between English, Chinese, and Spanish language versions of the inventory and partial scalar invariance was established
Exploring mindfulness in/as education from a Heideggerian perspective
Over the past decade or so within this journal, there have been critical debates concerning the role of mindfulness within education, the influence of neoliberalism on education in general and well-being interventions specifically, and the relevance of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger for critiquing modernity including the nature and purpose afforded education. In this article, we propose that these debates are sufficiently interrelated to deve…
Pathways to Mental Well-Being in Young Carers: The Role of Benefit Finding, Coping, Helplessness, and Caring Tasks
Although prior research has shown that young carers may perceive benefits from their challenging situation, it is unclear how and when benefit finding leads to better mental health. This study examines pathways through which benefit finding may influence mental well-being. Self-reported data were obtained from 601 adolescents aged 15–21 ( M age = 17.87, 71.9% female) who provided care for a close person with physical or mental health problems. Be…
A Quiet Revolution? Reflecting on the Potentiality and Ethics of Mindfulness in a Junior School
This article examines the potentiality, acceptability and ethical considerations of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) for supporting pupils’ mental well-being in a junior school. To date, research has predominantly focused on the psychological or behavioural benefits of MBIs rather than broader and more philosophical issues of implementation. The findings reported in this article are positioned alongside recent debates critiquing the neolibe…
The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression: Two longitudinal studies
Assessment of bully/victim problems in 8 to 11 year-olds
The aim of the present study was to develop two six-item self-report scales (the Bullying-Behaviour Scale and the Peer-Victimisation Scale) to assess bully-victim problems at school. These scales were designed so that they could be immersed within the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC: Harter, 1985) thus reducing the saliency of the items. Internal reliability of both scales was found to be satisfactory (Cronbach's alpha = 0.83 and 0.82 …
Relationship-Based Social Work and Its Compatibility with the Person-Centred Approach: Principled versus Instrumental Perspectives
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in social work towards relationship-based practice. In this article, we discuss the conceptualisation of relationship-based practice from a person-centred point of view and its applicability to contemporary social work. It will be shown that the person-centred point of view has a meta-theoretical basis that makes it incompatible with modern statutory social work practice. First, we outline …
Bully/victim problems and their association with Eysenck's personality dimensions in 8 to 13 year-olds
Background. Previous research which has investigated the association between bully-victim problems and Eysenck's personality dimensions has shown an association between victimisation and introversion and an association between bullying and psychoticism (Slee & Rigby, 1993).Aims. The aim of the present study was to replicate these findings and to extend the investigation of the association between bully/victim problems and personality to children …
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Interpreters
An emerging evidence base indicates that posttraumatic growth might be experienced vicariously by those working alongside trauma survivors. In this study we explored the vicarious experiences of eight interpreters working in a therapeutic setting with asylum seekers and refugees. We adopted a qualitative approach, using semistructured interviews and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four interrelated themes emerged from the findings: feel…
Trauma: A Unifying Concept for Social Work
The aim is to show how traumatic stress provides a unifying concept for social work. In the last ten years, there have been significant changes in the nature of organisations that provide social care for people in the UK, with social work practice no longer confined to traditional local authority services. Increasingly, social workers are taking up posts in a variety of settings and sectors demanding new knowledge and skills. The field of traumat…
Domestic violence and the politics of trauma
Psychological growth in humanitarian aid personnel: Reintegrating With Family and Community Following Exposure to War and Genocide
There is a paucity of research into the subjective experiences of humanitarian aid personnel exposed to modern global conflicts and disasters in the course of their work. In particular, little is known about how they make sense of any dual threat: (1) witnessing catastrophic and traumatic events perpetrated on those they seek to serve and (2) experiencing personal threat to self. This phenomenological study explores the idiographic interpretation…
Person-Centered Approach, Positive Psychology, and Relational Helping: Building Bridges
It is more than 20 years since the death of one of the most influential American clinical psychologists of the 20th century, Carl Rogers, who founded the client-centered school more than 50 years ago. Client-centered psychology remains a distinctive and alternative approach because of its assertion that the organismic valuing process is the engine of therapeutic change and the attendant implications for nondirective practice. Many of its ideas ar…
Vicarious Growth in Wives of Vietnam Veterans: A Phenomenological Investigation Into Decades of “Lived” Experience
There is a paucity of research understanding the “lived experience” of psychological growth following vicarious trauma. This idiographic study explores the phenomenological experiences of wives of Vietnam veterans exposed to vicarious combat trauma over decades. Using semistructured interviews, data were collected from wives of Australian veterans and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Two main themes emerged: (a) “Living wi…
Psychological Growth in Aging Vietnam Veterans: Redefining Shame and Betrayal
This study offers alternative interpretations of war-related distress embedded within the social and political context of the Vietnam War. Subjective interpretations from aging Vietnam veterans were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. A central theme— Moral authenticity: Overcoming the betrayal and shame of war—overarched five subordinate themes. Four subordinate themes encapsulated layers of war-related betrayal associated w…
Person-Centered Personality Theory: Support from Self-Determination Theory And Positive Psychology
The present article examines the person-centered personality theory of Carl Rogers in light of recent developments in theory and research within the emergent discipline of positive psychology. In particular, the theoretical observations and research findings from selfdetermination theory are reviewed. It is argued that at the metatheoretical level, person-centered theory and self-determination theory provide similar perspectives, and thus the emp…
From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools
Exploring mindfulness in/as education from a Heideggerian perspective
Over the past decade or so within this journal, there have been critical debates concerning the role of mindfulness within education, the influence of neoliberalism on education in general and well-being interventions specifically, and the relevance of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger for critiquing modernity including the nature and purpose afforded education. In this article, we propose that these debates are sufficiently interrelated to deve…
Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School
Mindfulness, often defined as present-moment awareness, has in recent years become a topic of multidisciplinary interest. This article addresses methodological issues for researching mindfulness and education. It is argued that there are advantages to coherence between ontological and epistemological positions when designing research studies. The limitations of positivistic methods for researching mindfulness are discussed. We then advocate the q…
Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives
The mental health and wellbeing of young people is increasingly a concern in schools. This study explores how English secondary school teachers perceive and engage with the concept of wellbeing. By asking teachers to reflect on their practice, we can draw out their relational experience and knowledge about wellbeing in the classroom. Twenty teachers were interviewed about their practice in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and during the acade…
Authenticity Is Correlated With Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence
Humanistic psychology has long been interested in authenticity. Carl Rogers proposed that authenticity leads to more fully functioning behavior. However, it is only in recent years that there has been empirical research into the correlates of authenticity. The aim was to test for association between authenticity and two individual difference factors of much contemporary interest—mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Participants were 197 adults…
Unconditional Positive Self-Regard, Intrinsic Aspirations, and Authenticity: Pathways to Psychological Well-Being
Unconditional positive self-regard (UPSR) is regarded by humanistic psychologists as an important determinant of well-being. However, until recently, it has received little empirical attention. The current study aims to examine the association between UPSR and several key constructs consistent with the ideas of well-being within contemporary humanistic and positive psychology. Study 1 is a confirmatory factor analysis of the UPSR scale. The signi…
A Theory on Reports of Constructive (Real) and Illusory Posttraumatic Growth
It has been suggested that self-reported posttraumatic growth could sometimes be considered as a way for people to protect themselves from the distress of trauma. In this case, reports of posttraumatic growth could be illusory. We suggest a theory on self-reported constructive (real) posttraumatic growth and illusory posttraumatic growth by using Rogers’s theory and the work by Vaillant. Through this theoretical framework, we attempt to explain w…
Increased substance use in survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
Cross‐sectional data are reported on 73 survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Many reported an increase in their consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and tranquillizers at six and 30 months. The level of increased use was, however, lower at 30 months than at six months, although this was less evident for alcohol and cigarettes than the other substances. In addition, self‐reports of increased substan…
Pathways to Mental Well-Being in Young Carers: The Role of Benefit Finding, Coping, Helplessness, and Caring Tasks
Although prior research has shown that young carers may perceive benefits from their challenging situation, it is unclear how and when benefit finding leads to better mental health. This study examines pathways through which benefit finding may influence mental well-being. Self-reported data were obtained from 601 adolescents aged 15–21 ( M age = 17.87, 71.9% female) who provided care for a close person with physical or mental health problems. Be…
Attitudes towards emotional expression: Factor structure, convergent validity and associations with personality
The aim of the present study was to investigate the structure of the Attitudes towards Emotional Expression scale (AEE), its convergent validity with the Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (AEQ), and its association with the Big 5 personality dimensions. The AEE was found to consist of four clearly identifiable factors, which loaded together on a higher order single factor. Higher scores on the AEE were associated with higher…
Evidence for gonococcal transmission within a correctional system
In a study to examine sexually transmissible disease occurring within a large correctional system where sexual activity is prohibited, 27 male inmates acquired culture-proven gonorrhea from in-jail sexual activity during a three-month period. These results provide evidence to encourage inmate education about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to support condom distribution programs in correctional facilities
Evidence for gonococcal transmission within a correctional system
In a study to examine sexually transmissible disease occurring within a large correctional system where sexual activity is prohibited, 27 male inmates acquired culture-proven gonorrhea from in-jail sexual activity during a three-month period. These results provide evidence to encourage inmate education about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to support condom distribution programs in correctional facilities
Traffic Growth: The Problems and the Solutions
Transport is fast shaping as one of the big environmental issues of the next decade. Road traffic is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases; road building is one of the biggest single causes of wildlife habitat destruction, and both traffic and new roads account for growing general intrusion and problems in the local environment. But the policies which are behind these problems are not working in their own terms either, but are producing …
Linking Causal Attributions and Inhibitory Processes
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between causal attributions and self-controlling behavior in adults following a negative event. More internal, stable, and global causal attributions were associated with greater self-controlling behavior even with concurrent depressive symptoms partialled out. The implications for a model of attribution - inhibition are discussed
Just World Beliefs, Self-Esteem, and Attitudes towards Homosexuals with Aids
The belief that AIDS is a deserved punishment on homosexuals for unnatural and unhealthy sexual behaviour was associated with stronger just world beliefs and lower self-esteem among 160 Northern Irish college students
The Depression-Happiness Scale
It is argued that there is a need for a measure which can quantify a continuum of affect and which is able to assess current frequency of mood for use in survey research with the general population. In a preliminary attempt to develop such a scale, a 40-item questionnaire containing items thought to tap feelings of depression and happiness was completed by 200 young people whose mean score on the Beck Depression Inventory was within that expected…
Memory of Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants for Violent Incidents and Their Explanations for the 1981 Hunger Strike
The aim of this study was to examine the memory of Northern Irish Catholics (n = 20) and Protestants (n = 21) for violent events which had occurred over the previous 11 years and their explanations for those events. It was predicted that Catholics would recall more events involving Catholic deaths than Protestants and that Protestants would recall more events involving Protestant deaths than Catholics. Although Catholics were as likely as Protest…
Increased substance use in survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster
Cross‐sectional data are reported on 73 survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Many reported an increase in their consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and tranquillizers at six and 30 months. The level of increased use was, however, lower at 30 months than at six months, although this was less evident for alcohol and cigarettes than the other substances. In addition, self‐reports of increased substan…
Personality Correlates of Scores on the Depression-Happiness Scale
The present aim was to estimate the internal reliability and convergent validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale. Internal reliability was .90, and higher scores on the Depression-Happiness Scale were associated with more internal control (.28), higher self-esteem (.36), and lower trait anxiety (-.69) among 45 undergraduates at the University of Ulster. The results provide some evidence for the validation of the Depression-Happiness Scale as we…
Causal Attributions for Marital Violence and Emotional Response by Women Seeking Refuge
The aim was to examine the association between causal attributions for marital violence and emotional reactions of 15 women from two refuges in Northern Ireland. The women who perceived the cause of the violence as stable and uncontrollable scored higher on the Avoidance and Intrusion subscales of the Impact of Events Scale, respectively. In addition, more global causal attributions were associated with higher scores on Intrusion and Avoidance as…
Convergent Validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with Measures of Happiness and Satisfaction with Life
The aim of the present paper was to investigate the internal reliability and convergent validity of the McGreal and Joseph (1993) Depression-Happiness Scale with measures of happiness and satisfaction with life. Subjects were 63 undergraduate students attending the University of Ulster. Internal reliability of the scale was .91, and higher scores on the scale were associated with scores on the other measures indicating greater happiness and satis…
Factor Analysis of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale
The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale is one of the most popular instruments for survey work with the general population. A 1993 study by Thorson and Powell reported a 5-factor solution. The present study was undertaken to replicate these findings; however, factor analysis with varimax rotation based on the responses of 187 students yielded 4 factors of depressed affect, somatic disturbance, positive affect, and interpersonal di…
Internal Reliability and Convergent Validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with the General Health Questionnaire in an Employed Adult Sample
The aim of this study was to investigate the internal reliability and convergent validity of the 1993 McGreal and Joseph Depression-Happiness Scale. Internal reliability was satisfactory and higher scores on the scale were associated with lower scores of 60 working adults on the General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and Williams
A dual representation theory of posttraumatic stress disorder.
A cognitive theory of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is proposed that assumes traumas experienced after early childhood give rise to 2 sorts of memory, 1 verbally accessible and 1 automatically accessible through appropriate situational cues. These different types of memory are used to explain the complex phenomenology of PTSD, including the experiences of reliving the traumatic event and of emotionally processing the trauma. The theory con…
Convergent Validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index
In recent years the study of subjective well-being has attracted much research interest. A 1993 operational definition is the Depression-Happiness Scale of McGreal and Joseph. The aim of the present research was to investigate the convergent validity of the Depression-Happiness Scale with the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index. Among 40 undergraduate university students, higher scores on the Depression-Happiness Scale were significantly associated wi…
Is Religiosity Associated with Life Satisfaction
150 Northern Irish University undergraduate students completed the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and a single-item measure of frequency of church attendance. No significant association was found between scores on the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity and scores on the Satisfaction with Life Scale ( r = .05) or between frequency of church attendance and scores on the Satisfaction wit…
Assessment of bully/victim problems in 8 to 11 year-olds
The aim of the present study was to develop two six-item self-report scales (the Bullying-Behaviour Scale and the Peer-Victimisation Scale) to assess bully-victim problems at school. These scales were designed so that they could be immersed within the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC: Harter, 1985) thus reducing the saliency of the items. Internal reliability of both scales was found to be satisfactory (Cronbach's alpha = 0.83 and 0.82 …
Religiosity and personality in a Moslem context
Religiosity and happiness: No evidence for an association among undergraduates
The Depression-Happiness Scale, a Measure of a State or a Trait? Test-Retest Data over Two Years
Test-retest data over two years, reported for scores on the Depression-Happiness Scale among 14 female Northern Irish university students, showed fairly high stability ( r = .55) and no change ( t = 0.56) between Time 1 ( M = 51.1) and Time 2 ( M = 49.6)
The Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity: Intrinsic or Extrinsic Religiosity
The present study tested the convergent validity of the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity with measures of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity. For 154 undergraduate students scores on Francis' scale were significantly associated .40 with scores on Intrinsic religiosity but not with scores on Personally Oriented Extrinsic religiosity ( r = .11) or Socially Oriented Extrinsic religiosity ( r = .05). These data suggest that the Francis…
Bully/victim problems and their association with Eysenck's personality dimensions in 8 to 13 year-olds
Background. Previous research which has investigated the association between bully-victim problems and Eysenck's personality dimensions has shown an association between victimisation and introversion and an association between bullying and psychoticism (Slee & Rigby, 1993).Aims. The aim of the present study was to replicate these findings and to extend the investigation of the association between bully/victim problems and personality to children …
Personality and religiosity in a Greek Christian Orthodox sample
In the present study we investigated the association between personality and religiosity in a Greek Christian Orthodox sample (n = 163). It was found that higher scores on psychoticism were associated with lower scores on religiosity in men although not in women. The strength of these associations was reduced when lie scale scores were partialled out, although a strong trend towards a statistically significant association remained for men. These …
Religiosity and its association with happiness, purpose in life, and self-actualisation
The aim of the present work was to test for an association between religiosity and happiness. One hundred and one undergraduate students completed the Francis Scale of Attitude Towards Christianity, the Depression-Happiness Scale (DHS), the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI), the Purpose in Life Test (PIL), and the Index of Self-Actualisation (ISA). It was found that higher scores on the Francis Scale were associated with higher scores on the DHS, …
The Depression—Happiness Scale: Test-Retest Data over Two Weeks
The present aim was to examine further the psychometric properties of the Depression-Happiness Scale. Test-retest data over 2 wk. are reported for this scale for a sample of 54 female Northern Irish university students. Stability was fairly high as r = .70, and there was no significant change between Time 1 and Time 2 (M = 49.7 and 50.8, respectively). The data suggest that the Depression-Happiness Scale might be considered a trait measure of hap…
Religiosity and social desirability: A response to Eysenck (1999)
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