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Spiritual well-being and psychological type : a study among visitors to a medieval cathedral in Wales
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Francis, Leslie J., Fisher, John W. and Annis, Jennie (2015) Spiritual well-being and psychological type : a study among visitors to a medieval cathedral in Wales. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 18 (8). pp. 675-692. doi:10.1080/13674676.2014.964002 ISSN 1367-4676.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2014.964002
Abstract
This study explores the theoretical and empirical connections between spiritual well-being and psychological type by drawing on Fisher's model of spiritual well-being as assessed by the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure and Francis' classification of psychological type as generated by the Francis Psychological Type Scales. Data provided by 2339 visitors to St David's Cathedral in rural west Wales demonstrated that, when the four components of psychological type were considered independently, higher levels of spiritual well-being were associated with extraversion rather than introversion, with intuition rather than sensing, with feeling rather than thinking and with perceiving rather than judging. Further examination of these data suggested that the judging process (distinguishing between the feeling function and the thinking function) was of greatest importance in shaping individual differences in spiritual health.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Typology (Psychology), Spirituality, Psychology, Religious, Well-being | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1367-4676 | ||||||
Official Date: | 27 November 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 675-692 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13674676.2014.964002 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 September 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 November 2016 |
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