Gender Differences In Calling And Work Spirituality Among Israeli Academic Faculty

In order to examine possible gender differences in work calling and work spirituality, 68 university academic faculty members responded to self-report multidimensional measures of these constructs. No gender differences were found for the attribution of the source of a transcendent summons, with a majority of respondents indicating internal potential, society’s needs, destiny, and family tradition as sources of this summons. MANOVA indicated that women had higher scores in comparison with men for two dimensions of calling - search for a transcendent summons and prosocial motivation – and for two dimensions of work spirituality - engaging work and mystical experience at work dimensions of work spirituality.

A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported β=0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported β=0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates

A Many-analysts Approach to the Relation Between Religiosity and Well-being

The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N = 10, 535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported β = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported β = 0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates

The Moderating Function of Sexual Sanctification on the Relation between Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction among Men and Women

The proposed study focuses on the possible moderating function of sexual sanctification on the association between sexual and relationship satisfaction. Past research on sanctification has focused on the direct association between domain sanctification and domain satisfaction. The proposed study examines the purported moderation function of sanctification. At higher levels of sexual sanctification, the well-known positive association between sexual and relationship satisfaction is expected to be stronger in comparison with lower levels of sanctification. An online questionnaire including measures of sexual and relationship satisfaction, sexual sanctification, social desirability, religious behavior, and demographic items will be administered to a sample consisting of 650 men and 650 women residing in Israel, married for at least a year, and identifying as being Jewish. The sample will include individuals identifying as being Religious, Traditional-Religious, Traditional-Secular, and Secular in equal proportions. The SPSS macro PROCESS (Hayes, 2017) will be used to test for the moderation effect separately for men and for women. In these analyses, age, social desirability, and religiousness will be controlled for

The threefold nature of spirituality (TNS) model: The relationship between rational, emotional and spiritual intelligences - cross-cultural approach

This study focused on three kinds of intelligence that seem to be important in adaptive processes - rational (RI), emotional (EI), and spiritual (SI) – and their relations with personality, spirituality, religiousness as well as life purpose and satisfaction. A multinational sample (N = 690) consisting of research participants from Israel (N = 181), Turkey (N = 110), Poland (N = 275) and Germany (N = 120) responded to an internet questionnaire. (A United States sample is to be included as well). As predicted, EI and SI were significantly correlated (rs = .29 to .60). However, RI was not correlated with either EI or SI. Also, as predicted, SI was significantly correlated with Openness to Experience, cognitive and experiential aspects of spirituality as well as with spiritual and religious interests. For the Turkish and German samples, SI was also correlated with Extraversion, but the effect sizes were small (rs = .19 - .20). Finally, hierarchical regression indicated that for all samples – excepting the Polish sample – SI had a unique contribution to the prediction of purpose in life over and above that of RI and EI. However, EI had a much larger contribution in comparison to SI. In contrast, for the prediction of life satisfaction, SI had a unique contribution only among the Israeli sample, where the contribution was much smaller in comparison with EI. In all of the regression analysis, RI did not have a significant contribution to the prediction of either life satisfaction or purpose in life