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Single-subject research, in contrast, focuses on understanding objective behavior through experimental manipulation and control, collecting highly structured data, and analyzing those data quantitatively. It is also important to distinguish single-subject research from case studies.
First, we wanted a proposal to address the main issue of Ralph’s call—clarity about the appropriate focus for our field. Although many researchers have specific targets, it is not clear whether we as a field are studying “ religion,” “ spirituality,” “the numinous,” or something else.
Contemporary psychologists view religion and spirituality as largely interdependent terms allowing for persons to identify as both religious and spiritual, neither religious nor spiritual, more religious than spiritual, or more spiritual than religious.
more than 200 published studies have focused on people dealing with trauma. Dr. Parga-ment has delineated the variety of ways, helpful and harmful, religion expresses itself in times of stress, and his measure of religious coping, the Religious Coping Inventory (RCOPE), is the standard in the eld.
1 sty 2015 · A typology for the diverse kinds of research in the psychology of religion is proposed, and cultural psychological approaches to the study of religion are shown to be indispensable for any comprehensive psychological analysis of religious phenomena and states of affairs.
Abstract. Three of the five integrative themes in this article seem straightforward: the path of the research, the role of the psychology of religion, and the methods–theory–methods feedback loop. The other two are pivotal.
This study examined how epistemic and ontological cognition predict agreement with four science-religion perspectives: conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration. Participants ( N = 3911) were Finnish, Danish, and Dutch adults who had answered an online study.
