Reliance on God as a Core Construct of Islamic Psychology

Bonab, Bagher Ghobari; Koohsar, Ali Akbar Haddadi

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.043

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“…For Muslims, aqidah or believing in God also means believing in all the teachings contained in the Qur'an, including the nature or attributes of Allah, such as loving, caring, protecting, helping, giving, and forgiving. Ibadah or ritual practices are worship that allow people to establish and maintain a close relationship with God (Bonab & Koohsar, 2011;Nasution, 2013). Likewise, good or moral behavior (akhlak) is also seen as a form of worship (Abu-Raiya, 2013;Nasution, 2013).…”

Section: Indonesian Muslims and Christiansmentioning

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Factorial structure of the four basic dimensions of religiousness (4-BDRS) among Muslim and Christian college students in Indonesia

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Indonesia is a highly religious country, and is therefore a fertile ground for studies on religiousness. There are six religions that are endorsed by the government. Therefore, a well validated scale that can be used on those six religions are a necessity. Unfortunately, only a few studies have verified the factorial structure of such scale. The Four Basic Dimensions of Religiousness (4-BDRS), a new multidimensional scale, shows a factorial structure that has been confirmed in several countries across different religions. The current study aimed to confirm the factorial structure of 4-BDRS and its measurement invariance across genders among Muslim and Christian college students in Indonesia (two major religions in Indonesia). Data were collected from 949 college students from nine universities in the Jakarta Metropolitan area. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the four factors model of the 4-BDRS in the Indonesian context. The result of measurement invariance shows that there are configural, metric, and scalar invariances. Gender comparison showed that Muslim males had higher scores on all four dimensions of religiousness compared with females, while for Christians, there were no gender differences. The 4BDRS appears to be a valid scale to measure religiousness among Muslims and Christians in Indonesia.

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“…Christian scholarship has looked at how disputants who share the same faith can resolve their conflict not in a passive fashion but in a way that will honor their faith (Ennis 2008). Similarly, Islam promotes harmonious coexistence and advocates a reliance on God (Tawakkul) as a stress-coping strategy (Bonab and Koohsar 2011;Brion-Meisels and Brion-Meisels 2012). Research has suggested that even priming Christians with Buddhist values can also inspire prosocial behaviors such as generosity and tolerance (Clobert and Saroglou 2013).…”

Section: First Element (Pre-negotiation): What Are My Values?mentioning

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Advancing a Distributive-Bargaining and Integrative-Negotiation Integral System: A Values-Based Negotiation Model (VBM)

Gan

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:The proposed values-based negotiation model (VBM) agrees with and extends principled negotiation's recognition of personal values and emotions as important negotiation elements. First, building upon Martin Buber's existentialist treatment of religion and secularism, VBM centers on religion as one of many possible sources of personal values that informs respectful and mutually beneficial interactions without needing one to necessarily be religious. Just as one need not be a Buddhist or a Hindu to practice yoga, negotiators of any theological outlook can profit from a model grounded in broad, common tenets drawn from a range of organized religions. Second, VBM distinguishes feelings from emotions because the long-lasting and intrinsically stimulated effects of feelings have greater implications on the perception of negotiated outcomes. VBM negotiators view negotiations as a constitutive prosocial process whereby parties consider the outcome important enough to invest time and energy. Negotiators who use VBM appeal to the goodness of their counterparts by doing good first so that both parties avoid a win-lose outcome. This counterintuitive move contradicts the self-centered but understandably normal human behavior of prioritizing one's own interests before others' interests. However, when one appeals to the goodness of one's Buberian Thou counterparts, he or she stimulates positive emotions that promote understanding. Third, VBM provides a framework that draws upon an individual's personal values (religious or otherwise) and reconfigures the distributive-bargaining-and-integrative-negotiation distinction so that negotiators can freely apply distributive tactics to claim maximum intangible and tangible outcomes without compromising on their personal values or valuable relationships.

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“…The Islamic significance of tawakkulis found in narrations by the Prophet Muhammad encouraging believers to place their trust in Allah, as well as in the Qur'an (8:2, 33:3). Psychologically speaking, Bonab and Koohsar (2011) suggest that tawakkul possesses cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and relational factors, defining these components as the cognitive conception, [in which] individuals perceive God as the first order cause of everyday events….In the emotional level, individuals attain readiness and inclination to put their trust in God, and find Him sufficient to take care of them.…”

Section: Implications Of Islamic Spiritualitymentioning

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Hijab in the Western Workplace: Exploring Islamic Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Discrimination

Koura¹

2016

JPBS

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Reliance on God as a Core Construct of Islamic Psychology

Cited by 33 publications

References 10 publications

Factorial structure of the four basic dimensions of religiousness (4-BDRS) among Muslim and Christian college students in Indonesia

Factorial structure of the four basic dimensions of religiousness (4-BDRS) among Muslim and Christian college students in Indonesia

Advancing a Distributive-Bargaining and Integrative-Negotiation Integral System: A Values-Based Negotiation Model (VBM)

Hijab in the Western Workplace: Exploring Islamic Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Discrimination

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