Mindfulness within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Empirical Translation Schemes and Religious and Psychological Functioning of Islamic Seminarians in Iran
With Islamic seminarians in Iran (N = 243), use of empirical translation scheme procedures transformed the ‘non-judgmental’ psychological language of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) into a more ‘judgmental’ measure reflecting a Muslim ideological surround. Muslim mindfulness and the MAA...
| Authors: | ; ; ; |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
2018
|
| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Pages: 305-328 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Allgemein B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | With Islamic seminarians in Iran (N = 243), use of empirical translation scheme procedures transformed the ‘non-judgmental’ psychological language of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) into a more ‘judgmental’ measure reflecting a Muslim ideological surround. Muslim mindfulness and the MAAS correlated positively with each other, and both predicted stronger religious commitments and better mental health. Multiple regression procedures confirmed that the two forms of mindfulness combined to explain variance in religious and psychological functioning. Both scales also mediated associations of religious and psychological independent variables with both religious and psychological dependent variables. Muslim mindfulness tended to offer a more sensitive assessment of seminarian functioning. These data further illustrated how research that brings religious and psychological perspectives into empirically guided dialogues can enhance understandings of both. |
|---|---|
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004382640_016 |