Attachment to God: A Qualitative Exploration of Emerging Adults' Spiritual Relationship with God

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia N. Kimball ◽  
Chris J. Boyatzis ◽  
Kaye V. Cook ◽  
Kathleen C. Leonard ◽  
Kelly S. Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Attachment To God ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Spiritual Relationship

Qualitative Exploration of Goal Importance Among Emerging Adults

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Cohen ◽  
Meghan B. Owenz ◽  
Blaine Fowers
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Goal Importance ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

scholarly journals PERAN PEDIDIKAN KRISTEN BAGI PERTUMBUHAN KARAKTER ANAK DAN REMAJA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salwan Karaeng
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Important Character ◽  
Spiritual Relationship ◽  
Character Growth

This paper discusses the role of Christian education in the character development of children and adolescents. The purpose of this paper is to find out how important character growth is for children and adolescents.This paper shows how to make children and adolescents with Christian characters reflect Christian values, which are based on their spiritual relationship with God who is the center of Love, Peace and Forgiveness. Children and adolescents with Christian character will build good relationships with others and other creatures so that communication will build mutual respect, tolerance, and live in harmony even in differences and diversity.

Walking as a Sacred Duty: Theological Transformation of Social Reality in Early Hasidism

1996 ◽  
pp. 180-207
Author(s):  
Elliot R. Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Attachment To God ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Demonic

This chapter presents some crucial aspects of the itinerant motif as it is developed in early hasidism. At the outset, two distinct typologies can be distinguished, although only the latter is rooted in teachings ascribed to the Besht. The first involves the use of the walking motif as a symbol for the spiritual progression through various grades, culminating ultimately in a state of devekut, cleaving or attachment to God. This usage is found in a wide range of authors including two of the most prominent followers of the Besht. One can distinguish between at least two models of cleaving to God in hasidic sources: (a) a vertical one, which entails the metaphor of ascent and descent, and (b) a horizontal one, which entails the metaphor of traversing from place to place. Hasidic writers used both models to delineate the individual's intimate relationship with God. The second typology, which is traceable to the Besht himself, or so one may gather from the hasidic sources, is decidedly soteriological in its orientation: it emphasizes two acts whose redemptive nature, from the kabbalistic perspective, is beyond question, namely the liberation of the sparks of light trapped in the demonic shells and the unification of the masculine and feminine aspects of the divine.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of Emerging Adults’ and Parents’ Perspectives on Communicating Adulthood Status

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Jablonski ◽  
Sara Martino
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Communication ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Parent Child

In this study the authors examine parent - child communication in Emerging Adulthood. Thirty - seven college students and one or both of their parents completed written questionnaires assessing whether the parent had verbally communicated or did some action to acknowledge the Emerging Adult’s maturity. Communication about changes in the parent - child relationship, as well as the Emerging Adult’s decision - making abilities, obligations to the family, and financial responsibilities were also assessed. The responses to the open ended questions were qualitatively analyzed using grounded theory. The findings indicated that the Emerging Adults’ and parents’ responses were very similar, and the overwhelming majority reported that there had indeed been an acknowledgment from the parents to indicate Emerging Adulthood status, although this was not always verbally communicated; sometimes it was indicated through the parents’ behavior. K

A Qualitative Exploration of South Korean Emerging Adults’ Perspectives on Death and Suicide Through Short Stories

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281988724
Author(s):  
Christiaan Prinsloo ◽  
Adri Prinsloo
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Individual Choices ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Selection Of

Despite the alarming suicide rate among South Korean emerging adults, relatively little is known about their unfettered perspectives on death and suicide. Therefore, an innovative data collection technique was developed to apprehend the meanings that emerging adults attribute to death and suicide in their explorations of the phenomena through a selection of short stories. A convenience sample ( N = 114) responded to a survey in which participants transferred their feelings toward death and suicide to characters or events in the short stories. A qualitative content analysis revealed relatively permissive perspectives toward death and suicide. Negative perspectives on death are associated with societal victimization and positive perspectives with naturalistic fatalism. Positive perspectives on suicide are overwhelmingly rooted in existential, individual choices while negative perspectives focus on societal pressures. These perspectives contribute to illuminating tensions between traditionalist collectivism and contemporary individualism in Korean society that could inform suicide prevention initiatives for emerging adults.

scholarly journals The Theocentric Worldview: Sustainability Education for Religion and Spiritual

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Mohd Mokhtar Muhamad ◽  
Sharifah Intan Sharina Syed Abdullah ◽  
Nurazidawati Mohamad Arsad
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
University Students ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Sustainable Behavior ◽  
High Possibility ◽  
Spiritual Relationship

Several recent studies started to relate religious beliefs and sustainable behavior. For this reason, there is a high possibility that students’ religious beliefs can be a strong impetus for practicing sustainability knowledge. The education for sustainable development (ESD) in universities should not be separated from the meaningful religious belief of university students. Therefore, we proposed the theocentric worldview which centered on a religion-spiritual relationship with God to be included as a part of ESD. This worldview is important in making ESD content meaningful for religious university students. In this paper, we used a religion-spiritual concept from Islamic teachings as an example of how a religious belief can be embedded within ESD for university students.

Duchowe rozmowy z Ojcem. Wartości kulturowe i literackie w poezji Wojciecha Kudyby

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Rafał Brasse
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Spiritual Relationship

The subject of my research interests in this article is a poem by Wojciech Kudyba titled “Dzie-sięć słów Ojca” (Ten words of the Father), whose philosophical and religious dimension directs our attention to the personalism which was close to John Paul II’s convictions. Kudyba is a poet of reflection, philosophical and religious pondering on the meaning of existence. This is evidenced by clear allusions and references to the Bible, as well as the relational character of the work, focused on building a spiritual relationship. In the analyzed poem, there is a strong desire to establish a spiritual relationship, a deep, intimate relationship with God. The world of spiritual experiences presented in this way finds its peculiar expression in the language of poetic images. The desire to meet the Father somehow anchors faith in a dream. While interpreting Kudyba’s poem, I will not be dealing with the problem of sacrum in literature. I will rather refer to the way in which the well-known archetypes and symbols function in poetry. I will be interested in the acts of creative consciousness, heading for sublimation, or creation of substitute reality. Since sublimation is the dominant and constitutive feature of poetry in the dimension of a peculiar experience of emotionally designed reality, I will try to enrich the leading structural analysis in this work with a few threads (or perhaps insights) derived from Gaston Bachelard’s epistemology.

scholarly journals A psychological perspective on god-belief as a source of well-being and meaning

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Karen Van der Merwe ◽  
Chrizanne Van Eeden ◽  
Hans J.M. Van Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
God Image ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
God Concept ◽  
African Context ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

This article reports on a qualitative exploration of the well-being and meaning that second- and third-generation Christians from an African context experience because of their integration of religion in their life and being. A textured, integrated tapestry is created of the participants’ understanding of God (God-concept), experience of their relationship with God (God-image) and understanding of life as coloured by their belief systems. The contribution of their God-belief to their sense of meaning and psychological well-being frames the tapestry of this article.

A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health in Emerging Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica S. Bachmann ◽  
Hansjörg Znoj ◽  
Katja Haemmerli
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Consistency Model ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Health Model

Emerging adulthood is a time of instability. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between mental health and need satisfaction among emerging adults over a period of five years and focused on gender-specific differences. Two possible causal models were examined: (1) the mental health model, which predicts that incongruence is due to the presence of impaired mental health at an earlier point in time; (2) the consistency model, which predicts that impaired mental health is due to a higher level of incongruence reported at an earlier point in time. Emerging adults (N = 1,017) aged 18–24 completed computer-assisted telephone interviews in 2003 (T1), 2005 (T2), and 2008 (T3). The results indicate that better mental health at T1 predicts a lower level of incongruence two years later (T2), when prior level of incongruence is controlled for. The same cross-lagged effect is shown for T3. However, the cross-lagged paths from incongruence to mental health are marginally associated when prior mental health is controlled for. No gender differences were found in the cross-lagged model. The results support the mental health model and show that incongruence does not have a long-lasting negative effect on mental health. The results highlight the importance of identifying emerging adults with poor mental health early to provide support regarding need satisfaction.

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