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| Spirituality: Spirituality in psychology involves exploring the human experience of meaning, connection, and transcendence beyond the self. It encompasses personal beliefs and practices related to a sense of purpose, inner peace, and understanding of one's place in the universe. Spirituality can influence mental health and well-being. See also Transcendence._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Psychological Theories on Spirituality - Dictionary of Arguments
Corr I 154 Spirituality/personality traits/psychological theories/Five-Factor Model/McCrae: Spirituality has (…) been proposed as a sixth factor [to the FFM] ((s)>Five-Factor Model of personality traits) (Piedmont 1999)(1). The Spiritual Transcendence Scale includes facets assessing Prayer Fulfilment, Universality and Connectedness, and these three defined a separate factor in a joint analysis with the facets of the NEO-PI-R (see below). Problem 1: One might question whether spirituality is in the domain of personality at all, or whether it is better regarded as an attitude or practice. Problem 2: All the items in this version of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale are positively keyed, so their intercorrelation may be inflated by acquiescent responding, the tendency to agree with items regardless of content. (NEO-PI-R facet scales are balanced, with roughly equal numbers of positively- and negatively-keyed items, so acquiescence is not relevant to their structure.) VsPiedmont: Some evidence for this hypothesis comes from analyses of a different instrument, the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) (Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakic and Wetzel 1994)(2). McCrae: keyed. A joint factor analysis of the twenty-five TCI scales with the five NEO-PI-R factors yielded clear N (>Neuroticism) , A (>Agreeableness) and C (>Conscientiousness) factors, a factor defined by both E (>Extraversion) and O (>Openness), and a separate Self-Transcendence factor (McCrae, Herbst and Costa 2001)(3). However, when acquiescence was assessed and statistically controlled, the full FFM appeared, with the three Self-Transcendence scales loading on the O factor (evidently measuring something like Openness to Spiritual Experience). Cf. >Mind/Davidson. Corr I 155 NEO-PI-R: has thirty facet scales, six for each factor. They were chosen to represent the most important constructs in the personality literature, while at the same time being maximally distinct.(Costa and McCrae 1995a)(4). 1. Piedmont, R. L. 1999. Does spirituality represent the sixth factor of personality? Spiritual transcendence and the Five-Factor Model, Journal of Personality 67: 985–1013 2. Cloninger, C. R., Przybeck, T. R., Svrakic, D. M. and Wetzel, R. D. 1994. The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): a guide to its development and use. St. Louis, MO: C.R. Cloninger et al. 3. McCrae, R. R., Herbst, J. H. and Costa, P. T., Jr 2001. Effects of acquiescence on personality factor structures, in R. Riemann, F. Ostendorf and F. Spinath (eds.), Personality and temperament: genetics, evolution, and structure, pp. 217–31. Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers 4. Costa, P. T., Jr., and McCrae, R. R. 1995a. Domains and facets: hierarchical personality assessment using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, Journal of Personality Assessment 64: 21–50 Robert R. McCrae, “The Five-Factor Model of personality traits: consensus and controversy”, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Psychological Theories Corr I Philip J. Corr Gerald Matthews The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009 Corr II Philip J. Corr (Ed.) Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018 |
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