Gary Shepherd  Gordon Shepherd 《Religion Compass》2007,1(1):229-244

This paper focuses on The Family International – a group that since its inception in the late 1960s (when it was known as The Children of God) has provoked intense public controversy and considerable social science attention as a result. Sociologists of religion have found it to be a particularly useful case study for contributing detailed insights as to how new religious movements (NRMs) may survive (and more rarely, flourish). NRM survival and possible success are viewed as occurring through certain adaptive changes and developments by the group in response to social environments that are often hostile to the groups’ existence. We summarize portions of our own research to show how The Family International has coped with a number of problems common to most NRMs, but often in quite unique ways that expand sociological understanding of how religious adaptation processes may occur and what forms they may assume. A particular focus of our research has been on The Family's unique expansion of both personal and corporate prophecy to facilitate its functioning.  相似文献   

  总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

John T. Cacioppo  Louise C. Hawkley  John M. Ernst  Mary Burleson  Gary G. Berntson  Bita Nouriani  David Spiegel 《Journal of research in personality》2006,40(6):1054-1085

Loneliness is characterized by feelings of social pain and isolation and has both heritable and unshared environmental underpinnings. An evolutionary theory of loneliness is outlined, and four studies replicate and extend prior research on the characteristics of lonely individuals. Studies 1 and 2 indicate that loneliness and depressed affect are related but separable constructs. Study 3 confirms that lonely, relative to nonlonely, young adults are higher in anxiety, anger, negative mood, and fear of negative evaluation, and lower in optimism, social skills, social support, positive mood, surgency, emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness, shyness, and sociability. The set of six personality factors associated with loneliness (surgency, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, shyness, and sociability) do not explain the associations between loneliness and negative mood, anxiety, anger, optimism (pessimism), self-esteem, and social support, as each association remained statistically significant even after statistically controlling for these personality factors. Study 4 used hypnosis to experimentally manipulate loneliness to determine whether there were associated changes in the participants’ personality and socioemotional characteristics. Results confirmed that loneliness can influence the participants’ personality ratings and socioemotional states.  相似文献   

    

Robin S. Codding  Jeff Skowron  Gary M. Pace 《Behavioral Interventions》2005,20(3):165-176

Historically the link between assessment data, IEP objectives, and instruction has been weak and cause for concern for educators, especially as accountability for schools and teachers has increased. In addition, IEP objectives have suffered from being too abstract or overly specific, possibly compounding the gap between objectives and instructional practices. Recently, focus has also emphasized the need for teachers to make data‐based instructional decisions. In order to increase the data‐based decision making of teachers, the first step may be to train teachers to interpret curriculum‐based measurement (CBM) data and translate these data into objective, measurable, and technically adequate objectives. A training package including modeling, practice, and performance feedback was used to instruct special education teachers to use CBM data to develop individualized, observable, and measurable educational objectives. A multiple baseline design across teachers was used to demonstrate that the treatment package resulted in teachers correctly using CBM data to formulate students' instructional goals and objectives. These results revealed that accurate use of CBM information was maintained without the treatment package and from simulated to actual student data. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

    

Gary E. Price 《New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education》1983,1983(19):49-55

Knowledge of learning style can be used by instructors, counselors, and administrators for better motivation, improved learning, and learner self-understanding.  相似文献   

    

Robert J. Hess  Gary G. Peer  Mary A. Porter 《The Journal of Humanistic Counseling》1978,17(1):15-22

  相似文献   

    

Gary W. Gathman  Wesley A. Many  Margaret A. Many 《The Journal of Humanistic Counseling》1977,16(1):33-37

  相似文献   

    

J. P. Lynch  Margaret Phillips 《The Journal of Humanistic Counseling》1976,14(3):82-87

  相似文献   

    

C W Hughes  J J Lynch 《The American psychologist》1978,33(5):419-429

  相似文献   

    

Gary Enos 《Mental Health Weekly》2016,26(7):1-7

  相似文献   

    

Gary Enos 《Mental Health Weekly》2016,26(10):1-8

  相似文献