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Christopher Alan Lewis
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Does positive parenting predict pro-social behavior and friendship quality among adolescents? Emotional intelligence as a mediator
Parenting has been reported to exert significant short-term and long-term impact on the offspring’s personality, behavior, and relationships during their lifespan. The present study aimed to assess the impact ...
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Shifts in denominational differences in student attitude toward Christianity in Northern Ireland 1979–2011
John Greer first introduced the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity in 1979 into his programme of research designed to chart the religious trajectory of students attending Protestant and Catholic sch...
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Religious affect and personal happiness: are there significant differences between Catholic adolescents in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland?
This study set out to explore levels of religious affect (measured by the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity) and personal affect (measured by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire) among samples of Ca...
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Addiction to Self-harm? The Case of Online Postings on Self-harm Message Boards
Presently, there is limited research investigating the addictive nature of self-harm, even though non-suicidal self-injury disorder has been included in the DSM-V (American Psychiatric Association 2013) for over ...
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Psychometric Properties of Three Measures of “Facebook Engagement and/or Addiction” Among a Sample of English-Speaking Pakistani University Students
For researchers interested in measuring the construct of “Facebook engagement and/or addiction,” there are a number of existing measures including the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, the Facebook Intensity Sc...
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Re: The Ottawa Self-injury Inventory Version 3.1: Suggestions for Revision to the Addictive Features Section
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Children’s awareness of alcohol sponsorship of sport in Ireland: Munster Rugby and the 2008 European Rugby Cup
Examined children’s awareness of sport sponsorship in Ireland, focussing on the 2008 European Rugby Cup win by Munster Rugby.
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The Association Between Church Attendance and Psychological Health in Northern Ireland: A National Representative Survey Among Adults Allowing for Sex Differences and Denominational Difference
This study extends previous research concerning the association between religion and psychological health in six ways: (1) by focusing clearly on religious attendance (church attendance); (2) by employing a ro...
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A Psychometric Evaluation of the Measure of Prayer Experience (Richards, 1991)
Recently there has been an increased interest in the use of prayer as a measure of religiosity within empirical research. Additionally, there has been a departure from the use of single-item measures of prayer...
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Leslie J. Francis and Jeff Astley, Psychological Perspectives on Prayer Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2001, 392 Pages, 0 85244 518 0
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Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity: Test-retest data over five weeks
Recently Lewis, Cruise, and Mc Guckin (2005) have reported on the test-retest reliability of the 7-item version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, their study was limited. The prese...
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The Impact of Personality and Religion on Attitudes toward Alcohol among 16–18 Year Olds in Northern Ireland
Background: Previous research demonstrates a negative relationship between attitude toward alcohol and religiosity. However, what is less apparent is if this relationship may, at least in part, be a function of i...
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Reliability and Validity of a French Translation of a Short Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity
The reliability and validity of a French translation of the 7-item short form of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity was examined among a sample of 462 female French university students. Analysis...
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Predictors of Nonpathological Dissociation in Northern Ireland: The Affects of Trauma and Exposure to Political Violence
Recent work has identified an empirical distinction between pathological and nonpathological dissociation. This study examined the correlates of nonpathological dissociation in a Northern Irish sample. The Dis...
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The Relationship Between Religion and Happiness Among German Students
A sample of 331 students completed German editions of the Oxford Happiness Inventory and the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity, together with the short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnair...
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Memories of Recent Conflict and Forgiveness in Northern Ireland
In everyday discourse forgiving and forgetting are regarded as closely linked, sometimes, synonymous concepts. In this chapter we explore the relationship between forgiveness and memory in the context of the i...
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Church Attendance and Happiness Among Northern Irish Undergraduate Students: No Association
Robbins and Francis (1996) note that the relationship between religiosity and happiness varies according to the precise measures used and the samples studied. To further explore the association between religio...
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The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Within contemporary psychology there is increasing interest in the role of religion on behaviour and psychological functioning. Such interest can be attested to by the growth in the number of pertinent books a...
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Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness: Religiosity and Obsessiveness
Within the field of psychology of religion there has been increasing interest to test established theoretical perspectives with empirical data. One such initiative is concerned with examining theories derived ...
