Developmental Perspectives on Adolescent Religious and Spiritual Development

King, Pamela Ebstyne; Hardy, Sam A.; Noe, Sean

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“…That is, religiousness/spirituality positively affected well-being and development via four pathways: psychological (emotional, cognitive, and motivational) processes, social (relational) processes, behavioral processes, and physical (physiological) processes. Also, consistent with a developmental systems framework (King et al, 2021), there was bidirectional interaction across all systemic levels, including people's physical body (genetics and physiology), mental activity (thoughts, emotions, motivations, and identities), behaviors, relationships (with parents, peers, partners, and perceived deities), and sociocultural contexts (their school, community, faith tradition, and culture; Pargament et al, 2013). The most pertinent finding of this review was that 112 distinct theories were used to guide the conceptual frameworks of the 175 studies.…”

Section: Drawing On Existing Longitudinal Research To Develop An Integrative Theorymentioning

confidence: 74%

“…But how do people's R/S habits develop and change across the lifespan? Consistent with relational developmental systems metatheory (King et al, 2021;Overton, 2010), PRSD posits that the structural building blocks of people's religiousness/spirituality (mental/neural representations and R/S habits) develop and change through bidirectional interaction between a person and multiple levels of their dynamic social-cultural contexts. Representations and habits are specifically formed and transformed through goal-pursuing relational experiences between people and their surrounding social ecologies.…”

Section: Needs Goals and Relationships: The Why And How Of Religiousness/spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward An Integrative Theory

Davis¹,

Day²,

Lindia³

et al. 2022

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Throughout the history of psychology, scholars and practitioners have sought to understand religious/spiritual (R/S) development and its intersections with well-being. Several models of R/S development have been proposed, but they have neither been well-integrated with each other nor studied and applied broadly in the field of positive psychology. This chapter’s purpose is to draw on existing longitudinal research on R/S development to propose an integrative theory for guiding developmental science and practice on religion, spirituality, and positive psychology. This Positive Religious and Spiritual Development (PRSD) theory posits that people’s religiousness/spirituality (a) is motivated by goals designed to meet psychological needs (e.g., for acceptance, predictability, and competence); (b) consists of mental/neural representations (stored beliefs, emotions, action tendencies, and physiological responses) and R/S habits that develop and change through relational experiences at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels; (c) is influenced by numerous contextual factors (e.g., age, sex/gender, culture, and faith tradition), including personal and sociocultural assets and liabilities (risk and resilience factors); and (d) interacts bidirectionally with people’s holistic well-being via psychological, social, behavioral, and physical pathways. We offer illustrative examples of PRSD theory, highlight some of its caveats and limitations, and discuss applications for clinical practice and religious ministry.

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Section: Drawing On Existing Longitudinal Research To Develop An Integrative Theorymentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Needs Goals and Relationships: The Why And How Of Religiousness/spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward An Integrative Theory

Davis¹,

Day²,

Lindia³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…That is, religiousness/spirituality positively affected well-being and development via four main pathways: psychological (emotional, cognitive, and motivational) processes, social (relational) processes, behavioral processes, and physical (physiological) processes. Also, consistent with a developmental systems framework (King et al, 2021), there was bidirectional interaction across all systemic levels, including people's physical bodies (genetics and physiology), mental activity (thoughts, emotions, motivations, and identities), behaviors, relationships (with parents, peers, partners, and perceived deities), and sociocultural contexts (their school, community, faith tradition, and culture; Pargament et al, 2013).…”

Section: Drawing On Existing Longitudinal Research To Develop An Inte...mentioning

confidence: 74%

“…But how do people's R/S habits develop and change across the lifespan? Consistent with relational developmental systems metatheory (King et al, 2021;Overton, 2010), PRSD posits that the structural building blocks of people's religiou sness/spirituality (mental/neural representations and R/S habits) develop and change through bidirectional interaction between a person and the multiple levels of that person's dynamic social-cultural context. Representations and habits are specifically formed and transformed through goal-pursuing relational experiences between people and their surrounding sociocultural ecologies.…”

Section: Needs Goals and Relationships: The Why And How Of Religiou S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward an Integrative Theory

Davis

Day

Lindia

et al. 2022

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

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Throughout the history of psychology, scholars and practitioners have sought to understand religious/spiritual (R/S) development and its intersections with well-being. Several models of R/S development have been proposed, but they have neither been well-integrated with each other nor studied and applied broadly in the field of positive psychology. This chapter’s purpose is to draw on existing longitudinal research on R/S development to propose an integrative theory that can guide developmental science and practice on religion, spirituality, and positive psychology. This Positive Religious and Spiritual Development (PRSD) theory posits that people’s religiousness/spirituality (a) is motivated by goals designed to meet psychological needs (e.g., for acceptance, predictability, and competence); (b) consists of mental/neural representations (stored beliefs, emotions, action tendencies, and physiological responses) and R/S habits that develop and change through relational experiences at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels; (c) is influenced by numerous contextual factors (e.g., age, sex/gender, culture, and faith tradition), including personal and sociocultural assets and liabilities (risk and resilience factors); and (d) interacts bidirectionally with people’s holistic well-being via psychological, social, behavioral, and physical pathways. We offer illustrative examples of PRSD theory, highlight some of its caveats and limitations, and discuss its applications for clinical practice and religious ministry.

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“…Given the trends in the United States about issues of faith and spirituality, the psychological assumption that all people are like all other people and like some other people and that each person is like no other person (Kluckholm & Murray, 1948), R/S (Abo-Zena & King, 2021; King et al, 2021), and the lack of consensus, with the many theories focusing on specific components of R/S (e.g., beliefs, salience), we sought a broad theoretical frame and method that would allow us to identify common psychological processes involved in the various forms of R/S with minimal bias.…”

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Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.

Kim¹,

King²,

Trudeau³

2024

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Given the significant shifts in religious affiliation and spiritual seeking over the last 20 years, a rigorous and updated understanding of how spirituality functions are essential to understand the impact of these changes on individuals and society. Drawing on an integrated view of spirituality informed by relational developmental systems (RDS) and meaning-making approaches, in the present study, we sought to identify commonalities within varied expressions of spirituality described within interviews of a religiously and spiritually diverse sample of adults. Structural topic modeling (STM) was applied to infer the latent themes inherent in the indepth narratives of 16 participants from the Fetzer Institute's (2020) Study of Spirituality in the United States. Following STM procedures, 1,298 terms were analyzed, resulting in a three-topic model as the best fit. We applied an RDS and contextual lens to name the topics: Individual, Transcendent, and Social, reflecting different systems in which spirituality is experienced. We found evidence that the process of making meaning is common to how people experience, understand, and then live out their spirituality. Our findings suggest that people experience spirituality when ascribing meaning and pursuing purposeful behaviors based on their transcendent beliefs and experiences at the individual, social, and transcendent levels. Our study sheds light on the importance and viability of considering diverse beliefs about and experiences of transcendence and provides unified and contrasting expressions of spirituality as it is lived out in the United States in the early 21st century through vivid descriptions from diverse lived experiences.

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Developmental Perspectives on Adolescent Religious and Spiritual Development

Cited by 13 publications

References 60 publications

Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward An Integrative Theory

Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward An Integrative Theory

Religious/Spiritual Development and Positive Psychology: Toward an Integrative Theory

Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.

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