Dimensions of religious/spiritual well-being in relation to personality and stress coping: Initial results from Bosnian young adults
- Authors: Malinovic, Alen , Fink, Andreas , Lewis, Andrew , Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
- Date: 2016
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- Relation: Journal of spirituality in mental health Vol. 18, no. 1 (2016), p. 43-54
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- Description: The aim of this study was to examine possible relationships between religious/spiritual well-being (RSWB), the Big Five personality factors, and stress coping strategies among Bosnian young adults. Therefore, a first Bosnian translation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Religious/Spiritual Well-being was applied on a sample of 290 (181 females) Bosnian undergraduate students. RSWB dimensions such as hope, forgiveness, or general religiosity were found to be substantially related with more favorable personality dimensions as well as with more adequate stress coping. As a conclusion RSWB dimensions were confirmed as being an important resource for mental health for this sample of Bosnian adolescents.
The Validation of a Spanish version of the multidimensional inventory of religious/spiritual well-being in mexican college students
- Authors: Berger, Daniela , Fink, Andreas , Perez Gomez, Maria , Lewis, Andrew , Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Spanish journal of psychology Vol. 19, no. (2016), p. E3-E3
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- Description: After the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB) was validated as a reliable instrument for the Western European context it is primarily intended in this study to translate the measure into Spanish and adapt it for the Mexican culture. Furthermore we investigate whether spirituality/religiosity has a similar impact on indicators of personality and subjective well-being in Mexico as it does in samples drawn from Western European cultures. 190 students (99 females) from public and private universities in Guadalajara, all Mexican citizens, were involved in this study. We found strong evidential support for the six factor solution of the Original MI-RSWB in this Mexican population. By mirroring previous research the measure showed a highly satisfying internal consistency (α = .91 for the total score and .75 or higher for all six sub dimensions). Furthermore the total RSWB score was observed to be related with Eysenck’s personality dimensions Extraversion (r = .24, p < .01), and Psychoticism (r = –.28, p < .001), although not with Neuroticism. There was also a positive correlation with Sense of Coherence (r = .31, p < .001). In conclusion, the dimensionality of RSWB and its associations with personality and subjective well-being was well supported in this first application within a Mexican cultural context.
Vulnerable dark triad personality facets are associated with religious fundamentalist tendencies
- Authors: Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich , Ruttinger, Johanna , Lewis, Andrew , Anglim, Jeromy , Fink, Andreas , Kapfhammer, Hans-Peter
- Date: 2016
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- Relation: Psychopathology Vol. 49, no. 1 (2016), p. 47-52
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- Description: Background: This study explores the possibility that religious fundamentalism (RF) may be linked to deficits in personality structure, which is in contrast to the general assumption that religiosity and spirituality are positively related to mature personality development. Sampling andMethods: To test this hypothesis, 327 (232 female) college students completed the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being together with the Innsbrucker Religious Fundamentalism Scale. In addition, the ‘vulnerable dark triad' of personality (‘vulnerable narcissism', subscale of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory ‘secondary psychopathy', subscale of Levenson's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale ‘borderline personality', of the Borderline Personality Inventory) was assessed. Results: In general, the relation between spirituality and healthy personality functioning was confirmed. In addition to greatly overlapping with ‘general religiosity' (p < 0.001), RF was also relevantly predicted by narcissistic (‘hiding the self') and borderline (‘primitive defenses') personality facets (p < 0.05 for both). Conclusions: Based on these preliminary data, we conclude that specific structural deficits in personality might lead to more rigorous variants of religious/spiritual beliefs such as RF. Further research in clinical surroundings as well as in religious extremist groups is recommended.