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Assessing the Power of the HEXACO to Predict Professional Burnout Among Catholic Priests in Italy
No full textThis study tests the application of the HEXACO among Catholic priests and the power of this six factor model of personality to predict scores on the Francis Burnout Inventory among priests. Data provided by 264 priests serving in Italy lead to two conclusions. In this population three of the six scales of the HEXACO failed to display adequate levels of internal consistency reliability (emotionality, agreeableness, openness to experience). High scores of extraversion and conscientiousness predicted higher scores of satisfaction in ministry. Low scores of extraversion, conscientiousness, and honesty and humility predicted higher scores of emotional exhaustion in ministry. The role of the honesty and humility factor in predicting negative affect but not positive affect supports the balanced affect model of professional burnout that views positive and negative affect as partly independent systems
Assessing the engagement of participants at a pre-Christmas son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral: A study in the individual differences tradition
No full textRecent studies have drawn attention to the variety of events, installations, and activities within Anglican cathedrals that hold the capacity to attract wider publics into these iconic buildings where common ground and sacred space collide. In order to assess the engagement of participants at a pre-Christmas installation in Liverpool Cathedral, this project designed seven measures of engagement (styled as Christmas engagement, Cathedral engagement, Spiritual/religious engagement, Personal engagement, Imaginative engagement, Positive engagement, and Negative engagement). Data provided by 562 participants explored the effect of personal, educational, psychological, and religious factors on predicting levels of engagement across these seven measures. Two core findings were that the Luxmuralis installation, The light before Christmas: The angels are coming exerted its greatest impact on younger people and on those who did not attend church services. In this way, not only was the Cathedral extending its reach, but delivering an experience that enticed them to want to return
‘The moonlight that shines from my open mouth’: communication in the English classroom, explored through I talk like a river by Jordan Scott.
No full textThe British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK
No full textThere is an ongoing debate in the UK and in other countries about whether twice-yearly changes into and out of Daylight Saving Time (DST) should be abolished. Opinions are divided about whether any abolition of DST should result in permanent Standard Time, or year-long DST. The British Sleep Society (BSS) concludes from the available scientific evidence, that circadian and sleep health are affected negatively by enforced changes of clock time (especially in a forward direction) and positively by the availability of natural daylight during the morning. Thus, our recommendation is that the UK should abolish the twice-yearly clock change and reinstate Standard Time throughout the year
Worldviews Clarification
No full textThis book provides practical activities for all teachers, enabling them to explore the worldviews of students before introducing new ideas and information. It works on the premise that to educate is to change a worldview; the process of enabling an expansion or enhancement of that worldview. The activities provide an introduction or audit of student perceptions, which can then be used as a starter activity for exploring a topic further
Evaluating the missional impact of an Advent son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral
No full textThis study tests the thesis that innovative cathedral installations and events may soften the boundaries between common ground and sacred space, perhaps especially at Christmas. Over two-fifths of the participants surveyed at the 2023 son et lumiere, The light before Christmas, in Liverpool Cathedral said that their experience made them more likely to attend a carol service in the cathedral and one fifth said they were more likely to attend a Christmas Eve/Day service. By coincidence the 4,749 attendance at the Christmas Eve Carol services was a 21% uplift on the pre-Covid 2019 attendance; the 1,232 attendance at Midnight Mass was a 73% uplift on the 2019 attendance
Using role-play to develop the confidence of primary-phase trainee teachers to manage low-level disruptive behaviour in the classroom.
No full textThis research evaluated the potential of using role-play activities to improve the confidence of primary-phase trainee teachers to manage common low-level disruptive behaviours exhibited by pupils in the classroom during initial teacher training (ITT).
The research concluded that role-play activities improved the confidence levels of trainees to manage common low-level disruptive behaviours and that trainees who participated in these activities were more confident at the end of training than those who did not. The primary benefit of the role-play activities was the opportunity for trainees to rehearse strategies and responses to low-level disruptive behaviours in a low-stakes context
Assessing the influence of the home on sustaining churchgoing among young Baptists in Canada: a replication study
No full textThis paper explores the influence of the home on sustaining churchgoing among young Baptists in Canada. Data provided by 126 young Baptists between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a week-long youth mission and service programme demonstrated that neither personal factors (age and sex) nor psychological factors (extraversion, sensing, thinking, and emotionality) were statistically significant after taking parental church attendance into account. Moreover, these data confirmed fathers’ attendance as a statistically
significant factor augmenting the effect of mothers’ attendance. The implications of these findings are discussed for pastoral practice. Within the current social context,
churches concerned with recruiting and retaining young members may need to concentrate on nurturing and resourcing Christian households (including fathers as well as mothers) in supporting the religious faith and practices of their children. The support and example of both mothers and fathers is important for boys and for girls across the teenage years
Assessing the Fragile Rural Church Hypothesis within The Episcopal Church (USA)
No full textA series of qualitative and quantitative studies among clergy and laity within the Church of England has documented five marks of fragility (including erosion of financial and human resources) that are more evident in rural churches. New data generated by the Covid-19 & Church-21 survey conducted both in the Church of England and in The Episcopal Church (USA) among clergy and laity indicate that in the USA rural Anglican churches are perceived as less fragile than in England