Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

In a constantly changing and increasingly globalized world, religion still plays a significant role in influencing social and consumer behavior. This study will analyze what influence religion and intensity of belief has on attitudes towards the advertising of particular controversial products and services. A question…

• BAYRAM ZAFER ERDOĞAN

Spiritual Change (SC) is one of 5 domains of posttraumatic growth (PTG). The current Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) assesses this area of growth with only 2 items, one focusing on religiosity and the other focusing on spiritual understanding. The addition of 4 newly developed spiritual-existential change (SEC)…

• EMRE ŞENOL DURAK

The study of secularization appears to be entering a new phase. Supply-side theories that focus exclusively on religious participation and membership seem too one-dimensional. But classical theories of secularization contain generalized and teleological premises that are at odds with the complexities of empirical real…

• ATEŞ ALİ ALTINORDU

Mental illness stigma continues to be a major barrier for individuals with mental illness.In this paper, we define constructs that comprise stigma (e.g., attitudes, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination), discuss the harmful effects (e.g., label avoidance, public stigma, self-stigma) and present factors that may infl…

The spiritual well-being scale was developed as a way of assessing how well adults' lives align with their values and their understanding of ultimate meaning in personal, social, environmental, and transcendental terms.The items on the scale were selected based on existing literature and essays addressing spirituality…

The author reviews some of the social and behavioral factors acting on the brain that influence health, illness, and death. Supported with data from several areas of research, his proposal for understanding health and illness provides both the concepts and the mechanisms for studying and explaining mind-body relations…

• SÜLEYMAN DOĞAN

AIM: To explore Turkish nurses' perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and to investigate the relationship between their perceptions and their demographic/independent variables. BACKGROUND: Nurses' perception of spirituality can directly affect how they behave, deal with their patients and communicate with the…

• ŞAFAK DAĞHAN

AIM: To explore Turkish nurses' perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and to investigate the relationship between their perceptions and their demographic/independent variables. BACKGROUND: Nurses' perception of spirituality can directly affect how they behave, deal with their patients and communicate with the…

• AYDEN ÇOBAN

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• MEHMET ESKİN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the dispositional optimism-posttraumatic growth (PTG) relationship in postoperative breast cancer patients and to examine if perceived social support moderates this relationship. The study was conducted with 104 women undergoing postoperative chemotherapy treatment or comin…

Based on theorization on the four basic dimensions of religiousness, Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging, and corresponding cognitive, emotional, moral, and social motives and functions of religion, we developed a measure and investigated cross-cultural consistency of the four dimensions as well interindividua…

• CEMŞAFAK ÇUKUR

Suffering comes in many ways for patients confronting cancer. One of these is an unspecifiable fear about death, which is an existential issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between death anxiety and its correlates in cancer patients. Seventy cancer patients were assessed using SCID-I, Temp…

• ARİF HALDUN SOYGÜR