Abstract The Pakistani Religious Coping Practices Scale was created to specifically record Muslim religious approaches coping. A sample of 129 university students responded Urdu versions this new instrument along with the Brief (RCOPE) Scale, single-item assessments orientation and interest, scales recording anxious, depressed, hostile reactions stress. two RCOPE Scales correlated positively. Negative scale predicted higher levels all three symptoms stress but unrelated motivation interest....

Pakistani university students responded to the Muslim Attitudes towards Religion Scale (MARS) along with Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Quest Religious Orientation Scales measures of adaptive maladaptive empathy. The MARS most importantly predicted higher Intrinsic scores, linkages empathy were at least partially explained by an intrinsic religious orientation. Extrinsic–Social motivation was lower than orientation, which in turn that Extrinsic–Personal form commitment. reflected a more Extrinsic...

One approach to promoting a Muslim psychology of religion involves dialogical model research. This would bring Western social scientific understandings and mental health into dialogue with perspectives. Concerns about bias in applying assumptions methods religiousness could be addressed through an empirical sensitivity ideological factors. Support for this may appear the effort psychologists describe intrinsic, extrinsic, quest religious motivations. These orientations roughly parallel,...

Measures of religious orientation were used to predict the experience Pakistani Muslims during Eid‐ul‐Azha, a celebration that marks end Haj. Participants displayed varying degrees correlation intrinsic, extrinsic‐personal, and extrinsic‐social orientations with interest, affect, work‐related responsibility variables Eid holiday. Gender differences appeared in more predictive male Eid‐ul‐Azha experience, but these measures usefully clarified commitments women as well. As expected, intrinsic...

Abstract Pakistanis suffering from major medical problems and non-patient controls responded to two factors the Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness that operationalised religious coping. Punishing Allah Reappraisal correlated positively with Poorer Functioning External Control negatively Self-Adjustment. Factor analytic procedures demonstrated Positive Religious Coping Identification subscale (IPRCIS) contained three dimensions. These Coping, Identification, Extra-Prayer...

This study examined relationships of Muslim spirituality with positive psychology in Pakistan. In a sample 200 university students and community members, the Experiential Religiousness displayed direct linkages Meaning Life General Well-Being subscales. also correlated positively single-item assessments Intrinsic, Extrinsic Personal, Social Religious Orientations explained these religious motivations Satisfaction. Women scored higher than men on Religiousness, but at least some were more...

English‐speaking Pakistani university students responded to the Sahin–Francis Attitude toward Islam Scale, along with other religious measures and a social desirability scale. This scale was multidimensional. Correlations confirmed its validity were not explained by response set. These data identified Scale as useful measure for studying Muslim attitudes within an Islamic society.

Research suggests that religious beliefs may both help and hinder how Muslims cope. In a Pakistani sample, the Positive Islamic Coping, Identity, Extra-Prayer Commitment factors from Psychological Measure of Religiousness correlated negatively with Perceived Stress positively Mental Well-Being, Intrinsic Religious Orientation, Extrinsic Personal Orientation. Identity also partially mediated negative relationship Well-Being. A Punishing Allah Reappraisal factor failed to display any evidence...

Previous efforts to demonstrate the coping benefits of Muslim beliefs have yielded ambiguous outcomes. With a sample 200 Pakistani adults, this project used Islamic Positive Religious Coping and Identification (IPRCI) subscale within Psychological Measure Religiousness (PMIR) examine relationships with experience behaviour Ramadan. Preliminary confirmatory factor analyses revealed need focus on IPRCI. correlated directly Ramadan Experience Behaviour inversely Negative Experience. Along other...

Recent years have seen growing interest in empirical religious research within the Islamic context. This paper contributes to that growth by exploring reliability of Sahin-Francis Scale Attitude toward Islam. The scale is a 23-item instrument which measures attitudes Islam on 5-point Likert scale. A total 729 English speaking Pakistani young people (45% male and 55% female) completed fscai . data demonstrated reliable measure achieving Cronbach Alpha .91 accounting for 37.4% variance....

Religious groups outside the West have displayed a positive correlation between faith and intellect-oriented reflection in contrast to negative relationship found with American Christians. This study extended analysis Pakistani Muslims. University students (N = 180) responded religious scales along measures of orientation satisfaction life. Faith- correlated positively, both direct relationships orientations In multiple regression analyses, combined predict intrinsic orientation, but...

Within the Ideological Surround Model of social sciences and religion, so-called “universal” perspectives within psychology religion can dialogically clarify be clarified by “particular” elements Muslim (and other forms religious) commitment. This study developed new scales for operationalizing experience behavior Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan. In a sample university students, one set experiential factors apparently facilitated, whereas another interfered with practices Intrinsic...

This investigation examined Pakistani Muslim understandings of the animal sacrifice that occurs during Eid-ul-Adha at end Hajj. university students ( N = 156) responded to a number items expressing possible interpretations this ritual. A Faithful Sacrifice factor operationalized sincere religious reasons for and correlated positively with an Intrinsic Religious Orientation Experiential Religiousness. Extrinsic Troublesome factors recorded nonreligious implications practice displayed direct...

Islam literally refers to a personal ‘surrender’ or submission, and may therefore promote form of self‐control that some have associated with psychosocial benefits. English‐speaking Pakistani university students (N = 160) responded the Brief Self‐Control Scale along measures religious interest, orientation psychological maladjustment. Self‐control correlated positively interest ratings an intrinsic negatively extrinsic orientation, depression anxiety. These data supported hypothesis Islamic...

Development of a Greater Jihad Scale sought to record “jihad” as Muslim spiritual struggle. Pakistani madrassa and university students responded items that described Self struggle against corruptions within the self Societal an effort bring social life into conformity with Islamic ideals. factors correlated positively Moral Values, Intrinsic Extrinsic Social Religious Orientations, Satisfaction Life. Madrassa scored higher on all these measures, but more strongly predicted religious...

ABSTRACTWe examined the degree to which an extended religious experience during Ramadan might promote interpersonal forgiveness. With six waves of data from a sample N = 215 Pakistani Muslim students, we used random-intercept cross-lagged panel modeling examine associations between decisional and emotional forgiveness before after in 2020. We observed three key findings. First, demonstrated strong cross-time measurement invariance both Decision Forgive Emotional Forgiveness scales. Second,...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) plays an important role in everyday life. As one of the necessities social beings is to interact with other on routinely basis, here it equally that has ability regulate one's emotions and understand others leading effective constructive communication. A number researchers have demonstrated adolescents face problems or academic life due their low self-esteem emotional intelligence, so they may develop frustration anger as a result failure resolve these issues...

Clinical psychology is of paramount importance in elucidating, evaluating, and boosting the two critical dimensions emotional intelligence (EI) resilience among many people who contend with various psychological distresses. This research paper tries to discuss complex issue tolerance a special focus on high stress environments. While impact individually have been supported by existing literature, interaction these factors, especially circumstances where individuals are exposed major life...

This study examined the possibility that smoking may interfere with Muslim commitments in general and experience behaviour of Ramadan particular. During Ramadan, a sample 29 46 non-smoking Pakistani men responded to measures smoking, Religious Orientation, Interest, Positive Negative Experience, Behaviour. Various indices predicted disinterest religion, less an Intrinsic lower levels higher reductions These data offered preliminary support for suggestion presents challenge beliefs practices,...

The present study aimed to compare the spiritual intelligence, resilience, and mental health of university students majoring in Islamic studies with those who are not studies. sample consisted 200 enrolled using purposive sampling (100 Major & 100 Non-majors studies) age ranging between 20 - 25 years (M = 22.59; SD 2.56). participants were selected from various departments a public Karachi, Pakistan. To collect data demographic form three standardized instruments including Spiritual...