Kevin J Flannelly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 250021 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin J Flannelly |
| PRENOMES | Kevin J |
| SOBRENOME | Flannelly |
| ASSINATURA | FLANNELLY K J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | HealthCare Chaplaincy Network |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms
Critical assessments of evolutionary threat assessment systems theory, religious beliefs, and mental health
I would like to thank Dr. Richard Sosis for arranging this symposium and the twelve commentators for taking the time to read the book and offer their criticisms of it. I was delighted to see all se
Threats to the Internal Validity of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Healthcare
The article defines, describes, and discusses the seven threats to the internal validity of experiments discussed by Donald T. Campbell in his classic 1957 article: history, maturation, testing, instrument decay, statistical regression, selection, and mortality. These concepts are said to be threats to the internal validity of experiments because they pose alternate explanations for the apparent causal relationship between the independent variabl…
The t -test
The t-test developed by William S. Gosset (also known as Student's t-test and the two-sample t-test) is commonly used to compare one sample mean on a measure with another sample mean on the same measure. The outcome of the t-test is used to draw inferences about how different the samples are from each other. It is probably one of the most frequently relied upon statistics in inferential research. It is easy to use: a researcher can calculate the …
International Study of Chaplains’ Attitudes About Research
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains' attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries responded to the survey. Over 80% thought research was definitely important and nearly 70% thought chaplains should definitely be research literate. Just over 40% said they regularly read research articles and almost 60% said they occasionally did. The responden…
Studying Associations in Health Care Research
This article discusses some of the types of relationships observed in healthcare research and depicts them in graphic form. The article begins by explaining two basic associations observed in chemistry and physics (Boyles' Law and Charles' Law), and illustrates how these associations are similar to curvilinear and linear associations, respectively, found in healthcare. Graphs of curvilinear associations include morbidity curves and survival and m…
Belief in Human Sinfulness, Belief in Experiencing Divine Forgiveness, and Psychiatric Symptoms
Many mental health and religious professionals have long argued that belief in human sinfulness is associated with poor mental health. Others argue that the deleterious mental health effects of belief in sinfulness may be buffered by a concomitant belief in divine forgiveness, which may itself have positive mental health benefits. We test these ideas using data from a national survey of US adults ( N = 1629). Our results indicate a positive assoc…
Measures of Central Tendency in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research
The three measures of central tendency are discussed in this article: the mode, the median, and the mean. These measures of central tendency describe data in different and important ways, in relation to the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) used to obtain the data. The results of published research studies, thought experiments, and graphs of frequency and percentage distributions of data are used as examples to demonstra…
Measures of Variability in Chaplaincy, Health Care, and Related Research
This article discusses statistical measures of variability in relation to measures of central tendency and levels of measurement. Three measures of variability used in healthcare research (the range, the interquartile range, and the standard deviation) are described and compared, including their uses and limitations. The article describes how each of the three measures is calculated, and it provides a step-by-step example of calculating the sums …
Religion, meaning and purpose, and mental health
The present study was specifically designed to examine the associations among religious commitment, belief in meaning and purpose in life, and psychiatric symptoms among the general public using data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey (BRS). The BRS obtained data from a nationwide sample of 1,714 U.S. adults, 1,450 of which are included in the current analyses. The central hypothesis of the study, based on identity theory, was that religious co…
Prayer, Attachment to God, and Symptoms of Anxiety-Related Disorders among U.S. Adults
Considerable research has examined the relationship between religion and mental health. This study adds to the literature in this area by addressing two main questions: (1) Is the frequency of prayer associated with symptoms of anxiety-related disorders among US adults? (2) Is this association conditional on the nature of individuals' attachment to God? We examine these questions using data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1,511). Result…
Operational Definitions in Research on Religion and Health
This article summarizes the historical development of operational definitions and discusses their application to research on religion and health, and their importance for research, in general. The diversity of religious concepts that have been operationalized is described, as well as the development of multi-dimensional self-report measures of religion specifically designed for use in health research. The operational definitions of a variety of h…
Research Designs and Making Causal Inferences From Health Care Studies
This article summarizes the major types of research designs used in healthcare research, including experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies. Observational studies are divided into survey studies (descriptive and correlational studies), case-studies and analytic studies, the last of which are commonly used in epidemiology: case-control, retrospective cohort, and prospective cohort studies. Similarities and differences among the …
Independent, Dependent, and Other Variables in Healthcare and Chaplaincy Research
This article begins by defining the term variable and the terms independent variable and dependent variable, providing examples of each. It then proceeds to describe and discuss synonyms for the terms independent variable and dependent variable, including treatment, intervention, predictor, and risk factor, and synonyms for dependent variable, such as response variables and outcomes. The article explains that the terms extraneous, nuisance, and c…
Fundamentals of Measurement in Health Care Research
This article discusses levels of measurement and their application to research and practice in health care. The concept of levels of measurement was codified in a seminal article by S. S. Stevens in 1946 that defined four levels of measurement: nominal scales, which label and classify cases (objects and individuals) and assign them to categories; ordinal scales, which rank cases on some attribute; interval scales, which have equal intervals for m…
Scientific Method and Its Application to Chaplaincy
Beliefs About God and Mental Health Among American Adults
Mental Health and Chaplaincy in the U.S. Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments
The lead article in this issue of the Journal describes the implementation of a program initiated in 2010 by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to integrate chaplaincy
Patients’ Expectations of Healthcare Chaplaincy
Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health
Although many studies have explored the salutary associations between multiple dimensions of religiousness and psychological well-being, a smaller body of work has focused on the links between spiritual struggles and negative mental health outcomes. Two types of spiritual struggles have received considerable attention in this literature: divine struggles, or troubled relationships with God, and struggles with belief, or religious doubts. Using da…
Measuring Spirituality in Health Care Research
Spirituality and Chaplaincy in Palliative Care
Religion, Forgiveness, Hostility and Health
Belief in Life-After-Death, Beliefs About the World, and Psychiatric Symptoms
Pray Tell
Prayer, God Imagery, and Symptoms of Psychopathology
Researchers have shown a longstanding interest in the relationship between religion and mental health. Here, we outline a series of hypotheses linking personal prayer, images of God, and mental health. We then empirically test the hypotheses using data from an online survey of U.S. adults (N= 1,629) conducted in 2004 by Spirituality and Health magazine. We find a positive correlation between both frequency of prayer and the perception of God as r…
Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health
Although many studies have explored the salutary associations between multiple dimensions of religiousness and psychological well-being, a smaller body of work has focused on the links between spiritual struggles and negative mental health outcomes. Two types of spiritual struggles have received considerable attention in this literature: divine struggles, or troubled relationships with God, and struggles with belief, or religious doubts. Using da…
Religious Resources, Spiritual Struggles, and Mental Health in a Nationwide Sample of PCUSA Clergy
Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Social Support
A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Literature on Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental-Health Professionals—Perspectives from Secular and Religious Journals
Belief in Human Sinfulness, Belief in Experiencing Divine Forgiveness, and Psychiatric Symptoms
Many mental health and religious professionals have long argued that belief in human sinfulness is associated with poor mental health. Others argue that the deleterious mental health effects of belief in sinfulness may be buffered by a concomitant belief in divine forgiveness, which may itself have positive mental health benefits. We test these ideas using data from a national survey of US adults ( N = 1629). Our results indicate a positive assoc…
Do Spiritual Struggles Predict Poorer Physical/Mental Health Among Jews
Although spirituality and religion are generally associated with higher levels of physical and mental well-being, spiritual struggles, which involve tension in regard to spiritual issues, have been identified as a risk factor for poorer physical and mental health, especially among individuals with greater levels of personal religiousness. However, studies in this area have utilized predominantly Christian samples and the importance of spiritual s…
A Study of Pastoral Care, Referral, and Consultation Practices Among Clergy in Four Settings in the New York City Area
Social Experience and Territorial Aggression in Rats
Social Experience and Territorial Aggression in Rats: A Replication With Selected Aggressive Males." The Journal of General Psychology, 95(2), pp. 321–322
Exposure to Females as a Variable in Territorial Aggression of the Laboratory Rat
Four colonies of 4 male Long-Evans rats were tested for aggressive response to unfamiliar mature male isolates ( n = 16) before and after exposure to ovariectomized or intact females. The hypothesis that exposure to intact females would increase aggressive response to male intruders was rejected. Observations and physical indicators of attack and associated stress indicated minimal fighting before and after exposure to females
Ultrasounds produced by rats accompany decreases in intraspecific fighting
Male intruder rats were placed individually into the cage of an established resident on 2 occasions separated by a 7–8 day interval. Residents readily attacked intruders and both animals lost weight during the first encounter. In contrast, no serious fighting occurred on the second encounter, and both intruders and residents maintained their body weight during the 24-hr test. Observation of the intruder's behavior during the first 30 min of each …
Social Experience and Territorial Aggression in Rats
Social Experience and Territorial Aggression in Rats: A Replication With Selected Aggressive Males." The Journal of General Psychology, 95(2), pp. 321–322
Comparative studies of wild and domestic rats
Virtually all previous behavioral comparisons of wild and domestic rats indicate that many components of the wild variety's agonistic repertoire are either absent or much attenuated in domestic strains. A study by Barnett et al [1979] published in this journal illustrates some of the procedural difficulties associated with comparative studies of this kind. Research in this area suffers from a failure to acknowledge the fact that developmental fac…
Prolonged Suppressive Effects of Pain on Territorial Aggression in Mice
The effects of shock administered 1 hr. before aggression testing were compared to defeat, aggressive experience, or control procedures, using four groups of mice ( n = 10 per group). A single 5-min. defeat experience significantly decreased offense and increased defense while victory had little effect on subsequent territorial aggression (offense). Shock was similar to but not as potent as defeat in reducing offense
Comparison of Procedures Used to Induce Offensive Attack in Mice
Three groups of male mice ( n = 6 per group) were tested in a study of the effects of repeated exposure to an intruder, dangled opponents, and isolation on territorial aggression (offense). Daily home-cage tests with intruders produced significantly more offensive behavior than either of the other procedures commonly used to induce this type of attack in mice
Fear and aggression in the rat
The effect of fear on two types of aggression in rats was investigated by adding a cat stimulus to a colony in which the dominant male was attacking an intruder (offensive aggression), or, to a tube test situation in which defensive biting was measured before and during tail shock. The cat completely abolished offense in the colony; when the cat was presented and removed before a strange rat was placed in the colony, attack on the intruder was al…
Opponents' Size Influences Maternal Aggression
20 female Long-Evans rats were tested for aggression on the day they gave birth. Only 30% of females tested with male intruders appreciably larger than themselves bit their opponents, and none showed offensive behaviors. By contrast, 80% of females tested with smaller males bit the intruders, and all of these used male-like offensive tactics. All attacked intruders exhibited defensive behavior, and all but one emitted ultrasonic vocalizations usu…
The offensive nature of maternal aggression in mice
The phenylpiperazine fluprazine hydrochloride was used to test the hypothesis that maternal aggression in laboratory mice reflects offensive motivation. Lactating females (n = 8 per condition) tested for aggression following drug treatment (1.0 mg/kg and 5.0 mg/kg of fluprasine) were significantly less aggressive than saline controls according to all measures used. The findings support the hypothesis that maternal aggression is offensive in natur…
Assessing Consumers' Interest in Using Alternative Transportation Modes of Commuting
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Comparison of Forced-Choice and Subjective Probability Scales Measuring Behavioral Intentions
Three surveys compared the accuracy of predictions based on forced-choice and subjective probability scales. The latter produced significantly more accurate election predictions and significantly reduced the percentage of undecided, or "Don't Know" responses, compared to forced-choice scales in all three surveys. Analysis indicates subjective probability scales decrease sampling error and confirms there is an inherent source of error in tradition…
A Review of Mortality Research on Clergy and Other Religious Professionals
A systematic review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of Traumatic Stress
Factors Affecting Healthcare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Pastoral Care in the United States
A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Literature on Collaboration Between Clergy and Mental-Health Professionals—Perspectives from Secular and Religious Journals
The influence of religion on death anxiety and death acceptance
Parishioners (n = 130) of an Episcopal church in New York City participated in a survey to explore the relationship between the religiosity, death acceptance, and death anxiety. Among the four different types of religiosity measured by the Rohrbaugh and Jessor scale, theological religiosity was the only one to have a significant effect on death acceptance and death anxiety. Belief in God’s existence (r = −0.27), and belief in the afterlife (r = −…
A Study of Pastoral Care, Referral, and Consultation Practices Among Clergy in Four Settings in the New York City Area
Examining the links between spiritual struggles and symptoms of psychopathology in a national sample
The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual struggles and various types of psychopathology symptoms in individuals who had and had not suffered from a recent illness. Participants completed self-report measures of religious variables and symptoms of psychopathology. Spiritual struggles were assessed by a measure of negative religious coping. As predicted, negative religious coping was significantly linked to various forms of…
Trends in the Scientific Study of Religion, Spirituality, and Health
Rabbis and Health
Discipline and Sex Differences in Religiosity and Spirituality among Health Care Professionals
Significant discipline and sex differences were found among random samples of hospital chaplains, nurses, physicians, and social workers who were asked to rate their religiosity and spirituality. Chaplains were significantly higher and physicians were significantly lower than other disciplines in religiosity. Spirituality was higher than religiosity for all disciplines. Overall, women rated themselves higher on spirituality than men
Discipline and Sex Differences in Religiosity and Spirituality Among Health Care Professionals
Referrals to chaplains
Given the increasing importance of understanding how healthcare workers interact with the principal person designated to meet patients’ spiritual needs— the chaplain— the current study provides an inter-disciplinary perspective of the role of chaplains (and spirituality) in patients’ emotional, physical, and spiritual health. The study surveyed a randomly selected national sample of hospital directors in four disciplines: medicine (n = 278), nurs…
What Do Chaplains Really Do? I. Visitation in the New York Chaplaincy Study
The current study presents findings from the New York Chaplaincy Study about chaplain visits with patients and their families in 13 healthcare institutions in the Greater New York City area during 1994-1996. It documents the distribution of 34,279 clinical visits by religious affiliation, population served (patients, family and friends), and type of healthcare setting (acute care and non-acute care), and analyzes the number and duration of visits…
Spiritual Care, Pastoral Care, and Chaplains
This study analyzes trends in the health care literature based on electronic searches of MEDLINE between the years 1980 and 2006. The search terms used were "spiritual care," "pastoral care," and "chaplain.*" The results document an expected surge in the rate of English-language journal articles about spiritual care beginning in the mid 1990s. Although the rate of articles about pastoral care was several times higher than that for spiritual care …
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