Personality Characteristics of Clergymen Entering a Clinical Training Program at a State Hospital

Jansen, David G.; Garvey, Frank J.; Bonk, Edward C.

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“…As I reported in an article in 1981, 15 studies have found a negative relationship between religious commitment and self-actualization (Bertoch, RELIGION AND MENTAL HEALTH 1969;Gibb, 1968;Graff & Ladd, 1971;Hjelle, 1975;Jansen, Gravey, & Bonk, 1972;Kennedy, Heckler, Kohler, & Walker, 1977;LaBach, 1969;Lee & Piercy, 1974;Lindskoog & Kirk, 1975;Pellegrin, 1970;Reglin, 1976;Reynolds, 1968;Schroeder, 1970;Stewart & Webster, 1970;Webster & Stewart, 1969).…”

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Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: A review of the empirical literature.

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Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology.

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At first glance, one cannot help but be confused by the research on the relationship between religion and mental health, where mixed and even contradictory findings appear to be the rule. In an often-cited metaanalysis of results across studies, Bergin (1983) found that studies distributed themselves much as one would predict by chance: 23% manifested a negative relationship between religion and mental health, 30% found no relationship, and 47% found a positive relationship.The results are consistent with previous literature reviews, prompting more than one reviewer (e.g., Levin & Vanderpool, 1987;Sanua, 1969) to assert that the data provide little or no basis for positing any relationship between religion and mental health. Spilka and Werme (1971), alternatively, have argued that "the inconsistency of empirical findings has led some reviewers (Argyle, 1959;Scott, 1961) to conclude that no relationship exists [between religion and mental health]. However, it seems more likely that the inconsistencies testify to methodological complexities" (p. 463).Seventeen years after Spilka and Werme made that statement, many of those "methodological complexities" have yet to be defined. In this This chapter is based in large part on a previous paper:

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Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: A review of the empirical literature.

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Implementation and evaluation of a clergy in-service training program in personal counseling

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Religious Commitment and Mental Health: A Review of the Empirical Literature

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Journal of Psychology and Theology

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Research on the relationship between religious commitment and psychopamology has produced mixed findings. In a recent meta-analysis, Bergin (1983) found mat 23% of the studies reported a negative relationship, 47% reported a positive relationship, and 30% reported no relationship at all between religion and mental health. Based on our review of more than 200 studies, we have discovered four additional trends: (a) Most studies linking religious commitment to psychopathology have employed mental health measures that we have called “soft variables,” that is, paper-and-pencil personality tests which attempt to measure theoretical constructs. In contrast, most of the research linking religion to positive mental health is on “hard variables,” that is, “real life” behavioral events which can be reliably ob-served and measured and which are unambiguous in their significance. (b) Low levels of religiosity are most often associated with disorders related to undercontrol of impulses, whereas high levels of religiosity are most often associated with disorders of overcontrol. (c) Behavioral measures of religious participation are more powerfully associated with mental health than are attitudinal measures. (d) Distinctions such as that between intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity explain some inconsistent findings.

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Personality Characteristics of Clergymen Entering a Clinical Training Program at a State Hospital

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Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: A review of the empirical literature.

Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: A review of the empirical literature.

Implementation and evaluation of a clergy in-service training program in personal counseling

Religious Commitment and Mental Health: A Review of the Empirical Literature

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