The Spiritual Orientation Inventory (SOI): A Multidimensional Measure of Humanistic Spirituality

We developed a multidimensional measure of lottery playing health, simultaneously considering the positive and negative perspectives of playing the lottery. Participants were 4,521 sports lottery players. The final version of the Lottery Playing Health Scale (LPHS) comprised 17 items divided across 5 factors: enjoyable experience, favorable socialization, rational control, negative mood, and social harm. The LPHS showed good psychometric properties, including level of fit to the data, discriminant validity, and reliability. Several lottery player characteristics (i.e., age, perceived risk, and urge to play) were found to be significant predictors of players' LPHS scores. This study represents an initial effort to understand the multidimensional effects of lottery playing on health.

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Saving Abstraction

10.1093/oso/9780190948573.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Dohoney

Keyword(s):

Altered States ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Spiritual Orientation ◽

Late Modernity ◽

Religious Feeling ◽

Religious Sensibility ◽

History Of ◽

Spiritual Intervention ◽

Musical Modernism

Saving Abstraction takes up the conflicted history of Morton Feldman’s most important collaboration—his work with Dominique and John de Menil on music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston. These collaborators struggled over fundamental questions about the emotional efficacy of artistic practice and its potential translation into religious feeling. At the center of this study is the question of ecumenism—that is, in what terms can religious encounters be staged for fruitful dialog to take place? And how might abstraction (both visual and musical) be useful to achieving it? This was a dilemma for Feldman, whose music sought to produce sublime “abstract experience,” as well as for the de Menils, who envisioned the Rothko Chapel as a space for spiritual intervention into late modernity. Saving Abstraction develops two central concepts: “abstract ecumenism” and “agonistic universalism.” The former characterizes a broad spiritual orientation within postwar musical modernism and experimentalism that aspired to altered states of ego-loss. This emerged as a renewed religious sensibility in late modernist experimentalism. The latter concept describes the particular religious form that Feldman’s music achieves within Rothko Chapel—an ascetic mode of existence that endures hopefully the aporia of postwar modernization’s destructiveness and modernism’s failure to effectively counter it.

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Development of a Multidimensional Measure to Examine Fear of Dementia

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development ◽

10.1177/0091415018784737 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 89 (2) ◽

pp. 187-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kyle S. Page ◽

Bert Hayslip ◽

Dee Wadsworth ◽

Philip A. Allen

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Family History ◽

Health Behaviors ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Multidimensional Measure ◽

Valid Instrument ◽

History Of ◽

Areas Of Concern

Persons with and without a family history of dementia report concerns for developing this syndrome; yet, less is known about the specific aspects of dementia that are feared. The Fear of Dementia (FOD) scale was created to assess these concerns. This study examined the psychometric properties of the FOD scale using a sample of middle-aged and older adults ( N = 734). We then explored the factor structure of the scale 2 years later using a smaller sample from the first study ( N = 226). Three factors emerged, highlighting several main areas of concern: Burden and Loss, Quality of Life, and Perceived Social and Cognitive Loss. Preliminary data suggest that the FOD scale is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the multidimensional nature of the concern about developing dementia. Attention to what specifically is feared may help further our understanding of health behaviors, coping, and targeted supports.

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