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Measuring attitude toward theistic faith : assessing the Astley-Francis Scale among Christian, Muslim and secular youth in England
Empirical research within the social scientific study of religion in general and within the psychology of religion in particular remains very conscious of the complex nature of its subject matter. Empirical research in this field needs to take cognisance of the many forms in which religion is expressed (say, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism) and the many facets within the forms (say, beliefs, behaviours and affiliation). Working in the 1970s, Francis (1978a; 1978b) advanced the view that the attitudinal dimension of religion offered a particularly fruitful basis for coordinating empirical enquiry into the correlates, antecedents and consequences of religiosity across the life span
Psychological type preferences of male British Assemblies of God Theological College students: tough-minded or tender-hearted?
Psychological type theory proposes that people make decisions through using one of two dichotomous judging functions (thinking and feeling). People who prefer thinking make judgements based on impersonal logic and tend to be objective and tough-minded, while people who prefer feeling make judgements based on personal values and tend to be compassionate and tender-hearted. This study explores the notion that the judging functions are key predictors of individual differences in terms of religiosity. The psychological type preferences of a sample of 190 male Assemblies of God bible college students were assessed using Form G (Anglicised) of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The data revealed preferences for thinking over feeling, and the implications of this finding are explored
Work-related psychological health and psychological type among lead elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom
Building on a series of recent studies concerned with assessing work-related psychological health and psychological type among various groups of church leaders, this study reports new data provided by 134 Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom who completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) together with the two scales of the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) concerned with emotional exhaustion and satisfaction in ministry. Compared with other groups of church leaders, Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches reported lower levels of emotional exhaustion and higher levels of satisfaction in ministry. Compared with other groups of church leaders, there was a higher proportion of extraverts among Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches. There was only a weak association between psychological type and burnout
A computationally efficient method for obtaining model forecast winds in the vicinity of complex coastal orography
Advances in computers have provided the means
for generating fine resolution mesoscale numerical
weather predictions (NWPs). Each computer
advance brings demands for forecasts on ever
smaller scales, especially by such disciplines as air
pollution modeling and fire weather forecasting.
Weather forecasts and observations on very small
scales are essential for driving the models used in
these important decision-making processes. Even
with the improvements in mesoscale NWPs, the
horizontal scales desired by these communities are
still too small to be treated by current computer
technology in a timely and practical fashion. Even
if the computer resources were adequate,
mesoscale model parameterizations are not
necessarily appropriate for these small scales,
thereby potentially introducing significant model
error in mesoscale NWPs.The use of supercomputers supported by the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program was necessary to generate the results presented in this study
Prospects for identifying the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays with IceCube
We quantitatively address whether IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino
detector under construction at the South Pole, can observe neutrinos pointing
back at the accelerators of the Galactic cosmic rays. The photon flux from
candidate sources identified by the Milagro detector in a survey of the TeV sky
is consistent with the flux expected from a typical cosmic-ray generating
supernova remnant interacting with the interstellar medium. We show here that
IceCube can provide incontrovertible evidence of cosmic-ray acceleration in
these sources by detecting neutrinos. We find that the signal is optimally
identified by specializing to events with energies above 30 TeV where the
atmospheric neutrino background is low. We conclude that evidence for a
correlation between the Milagro and IceCube sky maps should be conclusive after
several years.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures; part of the text and some figures have changed,
conclusions remain the same; equals journal versio
Large magnetoresistance at room-temperature in semiconducting polymer sandwich devices
We report on the discovery of a large, room temperature magnetoresistance
(MR) effect in polyfluorene sandwich devices in weak magnetic fields. We
characterize this effect and discuss its dependence on voltage, temperature,
film thickness, electrode materials, and (unintentional) impurity
concentration. We usually observed negative MR, but positive MR can also be
achieved under high applied electric fields. The MR effect reaches up to 10% at
fields of 10mT at room temperature. The effect shows only a weak temperature
dependence and is independent of the sign and direction of the magnetic field.
We find that the effect is related to the hole current in the devices.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
The internal consistency reliability of the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism among students in India
The Santosh–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism was originally developed and tested among Hindus in the UK as part of a programme designed to assess religious affect across faith traditions. The present study tests the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the instrument among 149 students in Karnatak University Dharwad (74 males and 75 females), India. The data demonstrated an alpha coefficient of .90, suggesting a high level of internal consistency reliability and commending the instrument for further application within Hindu communities
Unravelling Active Galactic Nuclei
A complete flat-spectrum radio-loud sample of AGN includes a significant
fraction of Seyfert-like AGN including a NLS1. Analysis of their optical
spectra suggests that the reddest continuum colours are either associated with
AGN in nearby resolved galaxies, or distant quasars showing relatively narrow
permitted emission lines.Comment: Poster contribution presented at the Joint MPE,AIP,ESO workshop on
NLS1s, Bad Honnef, Dec. 1999, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews; also
available at http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/nls1-worksho
Defining and assessing spiritual health : a comparative study among 13- to 15-year-old pupils attending secular schools, Anglican schools, and private Christian schools in England and Wales
This article argues that the nation's commitment to young people involves proper concern for their physical health, their psychological health, and their spiritual health. In this context the notion of spiritual health is clarified by a critique of John Fisher's model of spiritual health. Fisher developed a relational model of spiritual health, which defines good spiritual health in terms of an individual's relationship to four domains: the personal, the communal, the environmental, and the transcendental. In the present analysis, we make comparisons between pupils educated in three types of schools: publicly funded schools without religious foundation, publicly funded schools with an Anglican foundation, and new independent Christian schools (not publicly funded). Our findings draw attention to significant differences in the levels of spiritual health experienced by pupils within these three types of schools
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