Religious factors in moral decision-making: Towards an integrated, socio-cultural, developmental, model

Abstract

For far too long, developmental approaches in the psychology of religion have paid insufficient attention to the richness and variety of social and cultural factors in human development and their relationship to religious belief, practice, belonging, identity, and world views, and often, related framing of spiritual questions, concerns, and disciplines. If scholars in the psychology of human development and psychology of religion have offered critical appraisals of the shortcomings of the neo-Piagetian, cognitive-developmental models that have dominated the scientific literature, and offered promising contributions and needed correctives to the omissions of cognitive-developmental approaches, the field is still in need of an integrated, socio-cultural developmental approach to human development and religious functioning. In this article we propose one way of moving toward a more integrated approach in these fields, with special attention to the advantages of such an effort in the study of religious elements in moral decision-making and moral development.

The relationship between Life Style and mental health among medical students in Kermanshah

“…In the present study, there was a statistically significant relationship between life style and social health. Day,[ 30 ] in his study, showed that a healthy life style was related to the social health of community members. Another study examining the relationship between life style and social health showed a significant relationship between the two.…”