First-Personal Belief and Evans’s Relation R₁

2021 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 147-171
Author(s):  
Hongwoo Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Personal Belief

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity and Religious Reflexivity in an Intercultural Chilean Parish

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Felipe Orellana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Religious Conviction ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
The Difference

This research aims to analyze cultural diversity and its relationship with the personal belief in an Immigrant Parish. The discussion is framed within the topic of intercultural churches and parishes, although in a setting that has not been researched (Santiago, Chile). The research was carried out in the Latin-American Parish placed in Providencia, Santiago, and a qualitative framework was used to obtain and analyze the data. Cultural diversity is understood concerning religious reflexivity and under the idea that pluralism leads to a weakening of religious conviction, as Peter Berger argued. The theoretical framework makes the difference between the vision of Berger on cultural pluralism (pluralism inter-religion) and the viewpoint by Charles Taylor (pluralism intra-religion). On the contrary to Berger, the findings of this research showed that cultural diversity and pluralism are elements that produce a strengthening of individual beliefs.

Acceptance, Endurance, and Meaninglessness: A Qualitative Case Study on the Mourning Tasks of Parental Death From Childhood Experience to Adolescence

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110244
Author(s):  
Niñoval Flores Pacaol
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Strong Attachment ◽  
Mourning And Melancholia ◽  
Cognitive Attitude

Bereavement and mourning are arguably one of the research interests of psychologists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists since Freud’s publication of Mourning and Melancholia. This paper is a qualitative case study that sought to examine the mourning experience of the participant from childhood until his adolescence. For theoretical foundation, the four tasks of mourning primarily developed by James Worden was utilized for the proper direction of the research inquiry; namely: a.) accepting the reality of death; b.) experiencing the feeling of grief; c.) adjusting and creating new meanings in the post-loss world; and d.) reconfiguring the bond with the lost person. The paper finds that the participant’s cognitive attitude, emotional experiences, and personal observations of the environment enable him to overcome actively (in an overlapping manner) the three tasks of mourning. However, the failure to find an enduring connection with his deceased parents is not a result of strong attachment but with the absence of personal belief about the meta-existence of God.

It Takes a Phase Transition

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ouellette
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Deficit Model ◽  
Personal Belief

The author uses the debate over vaccines, and the recent passage of legislation in California that ended exemption from vaccines for reasons of personal belief, to explore how to change opinions on controversial topics. Research on the information deficit model, the affective tipping point, and notions of personal identity are discussed.

scholarly journals Questionnaire Data from the Revision of a Chinese Version of Free Will and Determinism Plus Scale

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Lan Liu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Wenjing Yan ◽  
Kaiping Peng ◽  
Jie Sui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Control Belief ◽  
Just World ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Self Image

We reported a questionnaire dataset accumulated from the revision of a Chinese version of Free Will and Determinism Scale Plus (FAD+). In this dataset, we collected data from 1232 participants. The questionnaires used in data collection included the FAD+ and 13 other widely-used questionnaires or tests (for example, the Big Five In-ventory, the Multidimensional Locus of Control, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, the General and Personal Belief in a Just World Scale, the Chinese Disgust Sensitivity Scale, the Moral Identity Questionnaire, the Moral Self-Image Scale). The sample size for these questionnaires are different, ranging from 33 to 1100. Our preliminary analysis revealed that scores of these scales are reliable (Cronbach's alpha: .52 ~ .85, McDonald’s omega: .63 ~ .90). These data can be used for both research and educa-tional purposes, e.g., examining cultural differences and measurement invariance on belief in free will, locus of control, belief in just world. All data, together with their codebooks and manipulation code, are available at osf.io/t2nsw/

scholarly journals Posverdad y crisis de legitimidad

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Ana Galdámez Morales
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
La Red

Se dice que vivimos en la era de la posverdad; «la emoción determina la percepción de la realidad social, con mayor capacidad de influencia que los hechos y las pruebas contrastadas»[1]. Ha cambiado el paradigma comunicativo: Internet y los canales de difusión masiva hacen posible el viaje –instantáneo– de las noticias falsas a través de la red, empapando nuestro imaginario colectivo y el debate público. Y es que, la desinformación que generan las fake news puede llegar a adulterar el proceso de formación de la opinión pública y, en consecuencia, los mecanismos de legitimación de las instituciones democráticas. La magnitud del fenómeno ha despertado la preocupación de los poderes públicos a nivel mundial y comenzamos a ver las primeras propuestas de regulación para hacer frente al que se ha convertido en uno de los principales retos jurídicos de nuestro tiempo. El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de dibujar –a todo color– el mosaico de los desórdenes informativos[2] y las incipientes posibilidades de actuación.   [1] Definición de posverdad –post-truth– palabra del año 2016, según el prestigioso Diccionario de Oxford. En ingles: «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief». Disponible en: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016 [2] ‘Information disorder’ es el título del estudio elaborado por el Consejo de Europa, publicado en septiembre de 2017. Puede consultarse en: https://rm.coe.int/information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-researc/168076277c

scholarly journals The Relationships between Employee Occupational Self-efficacy, Structural Empowerment, and Work Engagement

Psichologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Žukauskaitė ◽  
Dalia Bagdžiūnienė ◽  
Rita Rekašiūtė Balsienė
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Structural Empowerment ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Formal Power

Nowadays the competitive advantage of any organization mainly relies not only on technologies or material resources but also on competitive, energetic, engaged employees, who are willing to share their knowledge, skills, and experience. Organizations must not only recruit talents but also inspire them and create the conditions in which they reveal themselves and have the prospect for professional growth. According to Bandura (1982), the personal belief of how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations may become crucial for work success. The present study integrates Bandura’s (1982; 1989) Social Cognitive, Kanter’s (1977; 1979) Structural Empowerment, and Schaufeli and Bakker’s(2004) Work Engagement theories and is aimed (1) to analyze the relationships between employee occupational self-efficacy, structural empowerment, and work engagement and (2) to determine the role of occupational self-efficacy in the relationships between the elements of structural empowerment and work engagement. A total of 1636 specialist level employees from one Lithuanian public sector organization were surveyed online. Ninety four percent of the respondents were female, six percent were male. The average age of the respondents was 45.71 (SD = 10.34) years, with the average of 8.29 (SD = 7.23) years of working experience. All respondents had higher education. Occupational self-efficacy was measured using the Schyns & von Collani (2002) OCCSEEF scale (short version), structural empowerment elements (access to opportunity, information, support, and resources, informal power and formal power) were measured using the Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire – II (CWEQ – II) (Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, & Wilk, 2001), and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) (Schaufeli, Bakker, & Salanova, 2006) was used to measure work engagement. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was applied to determine the mediating role of occupational self-efficacy in the relationships between elements of structural empowerment and work engagement. The analysis revealed that all dimensions of structural empowerment positively predicted occupational self-efficacy, and that occupational self-efficacy positively predicted work engagement. Formal power directly positively predicted work engagement, occupational self-efficacy fully mediated the relationship between informal power and work engagement and partially mediated the relationships between certain predictors (access to opportinity, information, and resources) and work engagement. Despite some limitations (e.g., this being a cross-sectional study, and that specialist level employees were surveyed from one organization), the results of the study highlighted, first, that employee occupational self-efficacy and work engagement might be strengthened by empowering organizational structures, and, second, that occupational self-efficacy is an important personal characteristic explaining the relationships between empowering organizational structures and employee work engagement. Perspectives for future research and practical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Are victims also judged more positively if they say their lives are just?

Psicologia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélder Vinagreiro Alves ◽  
Mariana Mello Breyner ◽  
Sí­lvia Fontinha Nunes ◽  
Bruno Diogo Pereira ◽  
Luí­s Filipe Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Just World ◽  
Innocent Victim ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
Low X ◽  
Study Participants

Non-victims who express high versus low personal belief in a just world (PBJW) are judged as having more social value, both social utility (i.e., market value) and social desirability (i.e., affective value). Our goal was to test whether this pattern differed when the targets were presented as innocent or non-innocent victims of enduring suffering. A hundred and eighty-six participants of both sexes took part in our 2 (degree of PBJW expressed: high/low) X 3 (Target identity: innocent victim/ non-innocent victim/ non-victim) between-subjects experimental study. Participants rated the targets on four measures: positive/negative social utility/desirability. Targets were judged more positively and less negatively if they expressed high versus low PBJW, regardless of their being non-victims or (non-)innocent victims. This pattern is taken as further evidence that the expression of high PBJW is a judgment norm, that is, a socially valued discourse irrespective of it being true or untrue.

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