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The short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 81 male Anglican clergy in charge of rural benefices and by 72 in charge of urban benefices. The rural clergy recorded higher scores on the extraversion and lie scales. These findings are discussed in light of the changing nature of rural ministry. 相似文献
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《Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging》2013,25(3):23-33
ABSTRACT This study employs path analysis to examine the relationship between clergy age and certain quantitative indices of church life in a sample of 983 urban churches. The data indicate that clergy aged sixty or over have contact with fewer children on a typical Sunday, generate fewer adult confirmation candidates and are less actively involved in promoting adult house groups. These findings are discussed in the light of a growing body of research concerned with clergy aging. It is suggested that older clergy may perform better in suburban parishes than in either rural or urban ministry. 相似文献
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This study set out to examine the experiences of stress in ministry among a sample of Anglican clergy serving in Wales. Building
on recent quantitative studies of work-related psychological health among Anglican clergy in England, the study employed mainly
qualitative methods to illustrate eight issues: the clergy’s overall assessment of their present health, their understanding
of the characteristics of stress, their assessment of the levels of symptoms of stress within their own lives, their identification
of the causes of stress within their experience of ministry, the people on whom they call for support in times of stress,
their strategy for and styles of recreation, their assessment of the pastoral care provision available to clergy, and their
views on enhancing initial clergy training to equip clergy to cope with stress. Data provided by 73 clergy (10 female and
63 male) portray a group of professionally engaged men and women who are well aware of the stress-related dynamics of their
vocation, who are displaying classic signs of work-overload, and who are critical of and resistant to strategies that may
confuse the pastoral care of stressed clergy with the accepted management role of the Church’s hierarchy of bishops and archdeacons. 相似文献
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A sample of 565 female stipendiary Anglican clergy in the UK completed the short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with indices of satisfaction with ministry and of dissatisfaction with ministry. The data demonstrate that satisfaction with ministry is associated with stable extraversion, while dissatisfaction with ministry is associated with toughminded neuroticism. Satisfaction and dissatisfaction with ministry are not opposite ends of the same continuum.
Pastoral Theology and Mansel Jones Fellow at Trinity College 相似文献
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Cattell's 16PF questionnaire was completed by 57 male and 75 female trainee Readers of the Church of England and the profiles revealed significant differences between the personality attributes of trainee Readers and the general population. These data were compared to the profiles of clergy of the Church of England and, again, significant differences of personality were found and discussed in relation to ministry. 相似文献
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Leslie J. Francis Mandy Robbins Jenny Rolph Douglas Turton Paul Rolph 《Pastoral Psychology》2010,59(5):551-561
This study links and tests three strands of theory concerned with explaining individual differences in levels of professional
burnout in general and among religious professionals in particular. These three strands concern the significance of current
self-esteem, recalled self-esteem as a child, and personality. Data were provided by a sample of 1,278 male stipendiary parochial
clergy working in the Church of England who completed the modified Maslach Burnout Inventory (specially designed for use among
clergy), and the short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (designed to measure the personality dimensions of extraversion,
neuroticism and psychoticism), together with a semantic differential index of recalled self-esteem as a child. The bivariate
correlation coefficients demonstrated significant associations between more positive self-esteem as a child and lower levels
of professional burnout (higher personal accomplishment, lower emotional exhaustion and lower depersonalisation). The bivariate
correlation coefficients also demonstrated significant associations between personality and professional burnout. Multiple
regression analyses, however, demonstrated that the association between recalled self-esteem as a child and professional burnout
largely disappeared after controlling for the personality variables. The conclusion is drawn that knowledge about the personality
profile of clergy functions as a more secure predictor of susceptibility to professional burnout than knowledge about recalled
self-esteem as a child. 相似文献
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Leslie J. Francis Patrick Laycock Christine Brewster 《Mental health, religion & culture》2017,20(9):930-941
ABSTRACTThe Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) were designed to provide a fresh conceptualisation and operationalisation of psychological type theory suitable for application within self-report quantitative studies in the individual differences tradition. The present study tests the factor structure of this instrument among a sample of 722 Anglican clergy. The Varimax Rotated Solution with Kaiser Normalisation recovered the hypothesised location of 74 of the 80 items across four factors with factor weightings of or above .38. The FPTS are commended for use. 相似文献
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Journal of Religion and Health - Psychological well-being was assessed by affect balance (a function of negative and positive affect) during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 among 4449 clergy... 相似文献
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Leslie J. Francis Patrick Laycock Henry Ratter 《Mental health, religion & culture》2019,22(10):1057-1067
ABSTRACTDrawing on the classic model of balanced affect, the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) conceptualised good work-related psychological health among religious leaders in terms of negative affect being balanced by positive affect. In the FBI negative affect is assessed by the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry (SEEM) and positive affect is assessed by the Satisfaction in Ministry Scale (SIMS). A sample of 99 Anglican clergy serving in a rural diocese in the Church of England (75 men and 24 women) completed SEEM and SIMS together with the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) as an independent measure of wellbeing. The results confirm the hypothesis that high SIMS scores reduced the negative effects of high SEEM scores on the independent measure of wellbeing. 相似文献
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David J. Musson 《Mental health, religion & culture》2013,16(2):195-206
Cattell's latest version of the 16PF (16PF5) was completed by a random sample of 580 male Anglican clergy whose names and addresses were provided by the Church Commissioners' payroll. These data demonstrate a distinctive profile for clergy that differs significantly from that of the general male population on 12 personality factors. In addition, these data indicate agreement on seven scales, and disagreement on eight scales, between the profiles of male clergy as measured on the old study using the 16PF4 and this study using the new version. 相似文献
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Sophie Gilliat-Ray 《Journal of Contemporary Religion》2001,16(2):209-225
This paper identifies some of the most salient trends in the changing sociological profile of Church of England ordinands over the past 30 years. While the Church itself monitors age and gender, there have been few independent studies carried out since the 1960s which explore these and other variables in any depth. By measuring changes in age, gender, churchmanship, ethnicity, plans for future ministry and setting these alongside wider changes in Church life, occupational mobility in society, and Church policy on ordination training (especially towards families and women's vocations), it is possible to highlight some likely implications for the future. What appears to be predictable with some degree of certainty is the continued growth of the evangelical tradition, increasing involvement in chaplaincy (which itself signals an interesting dynamic in the 'location' of religion and religious professionals in social life), and much more willingness within the Church to experiment with different patterns of ministry and more flexible modes of theological training. 相似文献
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Reflections on the Shop Windows of the Church of England: Anglican Cathedrals and Vicarious Religion
Judith A. Muskett 《Journal of Contemporary Religion》2015,30(2):273-289
In order to shed light on the role of modern Anglican cathedrals in England, this article refines Grace Davie’s concept of vicarious religion. Building on Peter Rowe’s thesis that cathedrals are well placed to perform the ‘prior work’ of Ann Morisy’s foundational domain of mission, the article constructs a model which predicts that cathedrals, widely known as the ‘shop windows of the Church of England’, are one dimension of the mechanism by which the passive majority becomes acquainted with and approves of the vicarious religion performed by the active minority. The model may facilitate empirical research around vicarious religion, which has presented methodological challenges, and may have resonance not only for cathedrals but also for the cathedral-like ‘Greater Churches’. 相似文献
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The Price of the Calling: Exploring Clergy Compensation Using Current Population Survey Data
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Previous research shows that clergy make less money than others with similar levels of education. We use Current Population Survey data to offer five contributions to knowledge about clergy compensation. First, we document and take into account the shift in clergy compensation from the provision of free housing to the payment of housing allowances. Second, although the clergy earnings disadvantage appears to have increased over the last 40 years relative to their educational peers, the picture changes when we exclude the highest income occupations. Clergy have lost ground to doctors, lawyers, and investment bankers, but they have gained ground relative to everyone else. Third, these gains are largely because of decline in the number of hours clergy report working. Fourth, we show that clergy working in churches earn less than clergy working elsewhere. Fifth, we document immediate wage penalties for those who become clergy and, among clergy, for those who begin to work in congregations. Overall, although clergy still earn less than comparable workers, their position has improved in recent decades relative to all but the highest earning occupations. 相似文献
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Leslie J. Francis Mandy Robbins Peter Johnson 《Journal of Research on Christian Education》2013,22(1):39-51
A sample of 298 primary-school teachers working within the state-maintained sector in England completed a 150-item questionnaire to assess their understanding of the term “spirituality.” The data demonstrate that after controlling for sex, age, personality, and current religiosity, teachers trained in an Anglican or Free Church College were more likely than teachers trained in secular institutions to interpret the educational construct of spirituality in terms of traditional features of Christianity. There is some evidence for the distinctive religious contribution of Church Colleges to teacher education. 相似文献
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Rodger Charlton Jenny Rolph Leslie J. Francis Paul Rolph Mandy Robbins 《Pastoral Psychology》2009,58(2):133-149
Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect proposed by Bradburn (The structure of psychological well-being, Aldine, Chicago, IL, 1969), this study conceptualised poor work-related psychological health in terms of high levels of negative affect in the absence of acceptable levels of positive affect. In order to illuminate self-perceptions of work-related psychological health among a well-defined group of clergy, a random sample of 58 ministers of word and sacrament serving within the west midlands synod of the United Reformed Church in England completed an open-ended questionnaire concerned with the following six guiding questions. Do you enjoy your work? How would you define stress? How would you define burnout? What stresses are there in your ministry? What do you do to keep healthy? What can the church do to enhance the work-related psychological health of ministers? Content analysis highlighted the main themes recurring through these open-ended responses. The conclusion is drawn that ministers of word and sacrament within the United Reformed Church in England are exposed to a number of recurrent recognisable sources of stress. Suggestions are advanced regarding the need for future more detailed research and for the development of more effective pastoral strategies. 相似文献
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Assessing the Impact of a Paid Children,Youth, or Family Worker on Anglican Congregations in England
Leslie J. Francis David Howell Phoebe Hill Ursula McKenna 《Journal of Research on Christian Education》2019,28(1):43-50
Drawing on the survey conducted by Christian Research and commissioned by the Youthscape Centre for Research and One Hope, this study examined the impact of a paid children, youth, or family worker on the weekly attendance of 5- to 18-year-old children within 786 Church of England churches with adult attendance ranging from 20 to 250 people. Nearly one-third of these churches had a paid children, youth, or family worker (N?=?259). The data demonstrated that on average the presence of a paid children, youth, or family worker added seven young people between the ages of 5 and 18 years to the total weekly Sunday attendance, after controlling for the weekly adult attendance figures. 相似文献
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Clergy represent a salient group in Western communities, providing a variety of services aimed at supporting diverse members
of those communities. Significantly, rates of attrition among clergy are high, suggesting the need to better understand their
occupational well-being and factors relevant to it. The present study draws on the quadripolar need achievement framework
to hypothesize motivational profiles among clergy and the extent to which these profiles predict occupational well-being,
as indicated by low burnout and high engagement. K-means cluster analysis with 200 clergy confirmed a quadripolar motivational
profile (success-oriented, overstriving, self-protecting, failure accepting). Using these group profiles as predictors, structural
equation modeling identified significant effects on all burnout and engagement factors, with success-oriented, overstriving,
self-protecting, and failure accepting groups each reflecting differential occupational well-being profiles. Substantive and
applied implications of these findings are discussed. 相似文献
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