Search Results - "Gorsuch, Richard L."

Religious Support and Emotional Functioning in India across Three Major Religions by Torrecillas, Jessica, Bjorck, Jeffrey P., Kamble, Shanmukh V., Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…We examined religious support and emotional functioning among 511 Indian university students who reported being either Christian, Muslim, or Hindu. The…”
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The Relevance of Religiousness and Reasoned Action for Adolescent Moral and Immoral Behavioral Intentions by Lehmann, Curtis S., Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…The theory of reasoned action has been found to be predictive of behavioral intentions (BI) in ethical situations, particularly when a moral component is…”
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Exploratory Factor Analysis: Its Role in Item Analysis by Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…The special characteristics of items-low reliability, confounds by minor, unwanted covariance, and the likelihood of a general factor-and better understanding…”
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Spilka's Impact on the Psychological Study of the Concepts of God by Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…Spilka, Amatas, and Nussbaum published "The Concept of God: A Factor-Analytic Approach" in 1964. As each decade has passed it has been cited more frequently…”
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Intrinsic Religiousness as a Mediator Between Fatalism and Cancer-Specific Fear: Clarifying the Role of Fear in Prostate Cancer Screening by Christman, Lisa K., Abernethy, Alexis D., Gorsuch, Richard L., Brown, Allan

“…Understanding factors that influence screening receptivity may enhance African-American men's receptivity to prostate cancer screening. Men of African descent…”
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Effects of Under- and Overextraction on Principal Axis Factor Analysis With Varimax Rotation by Wood, James M, Tataryn, Douglas J, Gorsuch, Richard L

“…The effects of under- and overextraction on principal axis factor analysis with varimax rotation were examined in 2 Monte Carlo studies involving 6,420 factor…”
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Religious Commitment and Expectations About Psychotherapy Among Christian Clients by Walker, Donald F, Worthington, Everett L, Gartner, Aubrey L, Gorsuch, Richard L, Hanshew, Evalin Rhodes

“…To assist psychotherapists in understanding client religiousness, Richards and Bergin (2005) have suggested assessing clients' religiousness at a broad level…”
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Therapists' Integration of Religion and Spirituality in Counseling: A Meta-Analysis by Walker, Donald F, Gorsuch, Richard L, Tan, Siang-Yang

“…Religion and spirituality are important aspects of multicultural competency for therapists to consider given the religious culture in America. Researchers have…”
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A Multivariate Theory of God Concept, Religious Motivation, Locus of Control, Coping, and Spiritual Well-Being by Wong-McDonald, Ana, Gorsuch, Richard L

“…A previous factor analytic study of the same data set was published as an incremental validity study of a new scale (Wong-McDonald & Gorsuch, 2000). The…”
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Cognitive Differences for Ages 16 to 89 Years (Canadian WAIS-III): Curvilinear With Flynn and Processing Speed Corrections by Lee, Hoyee Flora, Gorsuch, Richard L., Saklofske, Donald H., Patterson, Colleen A.

“…Adult cognitive age differences in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—III Canadian normative data were curvilinear for most scales and for the Verbal…”
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Surrender to God: An Additional Coping Style? by Wong-Mcdonald, Ana, Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…In addition to the religious coping styles proposed by K. I. Pargament et al. (1988), a surrender style of coping is proposed. Surrender is not a passive…”
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Recruiting African American Men for Cancer Screening Studies: Applying a Culturally Based Model by Abernethy, Alexis D., Magat, Maricar M., Houston, Tina R., Arnold, Harold L., Bjorck, Jeffrey P., Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…In a study of psychosocial factors related to prostate cancer screening (PCS) of African American men, researchers achieved significant success in recruitment…”
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Giving Psychology Away Is Expensive by Gorsuch, Richard L, Wallace, William L

“…This article presents comments on "Does Psychology make a significant difference in our lives?" by P. Zimbardo. We deeply appreciate the documentation and…”
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Religious Orientation, Antihomosexual Sentiment, and Fundamentalism among Christians by Fulton, Aubyn S., Gorsuch, Richard L., Maynard, Elizabeth A.

“…Christian antihomosexual sentiment was hypothesized to be a function of respondents' Fundamentalist (F) beliefs, low Intrinsic (I) and high Extrinsic Social…”
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The Pyramids of Sciences and of Humanities: Implications for the Search for Religious "Truth" by Gorsuch, Richard L

“…The 1900s' truth criteria were easily met in science but not easily met in the humanities & religions. This approach was founded in the classical view of…”
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Religiousness and Prostate Cancer Screening in African American Men by Abernethy, Alexis D., Houston, Tina R., Bjorck, Jeffrey P., Gorsuch, Richard L., Arnold, Harold L.

“…This study was designed to examine the relationship between religiousness (organized, nonorganized, and intrinsic) and religious problem solving…”
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Intrinsic/Extrinsic Measurement: I/E-Revised and Single-Item Scales by Gorsuch, Richard L., McPherson, Susan E.

“…Factor analyses of traditional and age-universal measures of intrinsic and extrinsic religion have identified two subcategories of extrinsicness, suggesting…”
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Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations by Maynard, Elizabeth, Gorsuch, Richard, Bjorck, Jeff

“…This study explored the important mediating role of personal religious variables and God concept in the use of religious coping in threat, loss, and challenge…”
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Component Analysis Versus Common Factor Analysis: A Monte Carlo Study by Snook, Steven C, Gorsuch, Richard L

“…Compares component and common factor analysis using 3 levels of population factor pattern loadings (.40,.60,.80) for each of the 3 levels of variables (9, 18,…”
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Setting the Value of K in Promax: A Monte Carlo Study by Tataryn, Douglas J., Wood, James M., Gorsuch, Richard L.

“…A Monte Carlo study involving 10,080 factor analyses examined the optimal value of k for promax factor rotations. The value of k was varied from 2 to 10 using…”
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