A Social-Psychological Study of Religious Nonbelievers

The paper describes results of a social psychological study on religious identity in Buddhist schoolchil- dren. The study involved 184 students of 9—10 classes of a school in the Aginskoye settlement (Aginsky Buryatsky Okrug, Zabaykalsky Krai). According to G. Allport’s concept and R. Gorsuch & S. McPherson measurements, religious identity is considered not only as practicing Buddhism, but as a complex social psychological formation with a four-factor structure base on the following scales: personal/social and in- trinsic/extrinsic. Different components of religious identity are explored in the context of their relation- ship with value orientations (as described by S. Schwartz and G. Hofstede). The following techniques were employed: the adapted version of D. Van Camp’s Individual/Social Religious Identity Measure, Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-R2), and Hofstede’s Values Survey Module. As it was revealed, al- most all values related to various components of religious identity of the Buddhist adolescents refer to the social focus. The paper concludes that religious identity in modern Buddhist young people has a distinctive social character.

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Book Reviews : Automation and Behaviour a Social Psychological Study

Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/002218567101300315 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 318-319

Author(s):

Maxine Bucklow

Keyword(s):

Social Psychological ◽

Psychological Study

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Thought Speed and Health Communication

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.262 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kaite Yang ◽

Emily Pronin

Keyword(s):

Health Communication ◽

Negative Mood ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Psychological Study ◽

Psychological Correlates ◽

Acceleration And Deceleration ◽

Social Psychological Research ◽

Thought Speed ◽

Shed Light

Social psychological research on thinking has generally focused on the attitudes, emotions, motivations, and biases that affect thinking and consequent behavior. What has received less attention is the speed of thinking: how quickly thinking occurs and whether thoughts accelerate or slow down. Communication design and processing may take for granted that the structure and reception of messages occur at a certain speed. Recent findings from the psychological study of thought speed shed light on ways that this research may be applied to health communication. Fast and slow rates of thinking are correlated with distinct patterns of affective, cognitive, physiological, and behavioral events. Fast thinking is associated with positive mood, energy, approach motivation, arousal, creativity, and risk-taking. Slow thinking is associated with negative mood and depression, low energy, and cognitive impairment. Potential theories exist for why psychological and physiological experiences are associated with thought speed. Recent experimental research demonstrates that thought speed can be successfully manipulated to elicit psychological effects, and it can be manipulated independent of thought content. Researchers, healthcare practitioners, and communicators should be aware of the psychological correlates and consequences of thought speed and consider harnessing the effects of thought speed to augment communication. Thought acceleration and deceleration can be integrated into the design and processing of health communication.

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