EJOP Archives: No. 2 May
Taking the Pulse of Global Psychology
One of the first assumptions any reader might have when first visiting the EJOP web-page is that of finding a journal focused on European psychological research. Since our first numbers we took pride in promoting European authors and in launching a special column, “Europe’s ImPulse”, dedicated to studies concerning the European Union or articles presenting mainly European psychological events. At the same time Europe’s Journal of Psychology has presented itself as a journal that is opened for both psychologists and psychology students worldwide, a journal that has an international Scientific Committee and Editorial Board formed by renowned professionals and researchers.
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Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
To cover an extensive topic such as research methods in organizational psychology is most definitely an ambitious goal. Nowadays more than ever researchers and practitioners are dealing with an overwhelming variety of methods and designs. With these new concerns arise, among them the problem of choosing the most adequate methodology, of increasing the validity of our instruments, of collecting and reporting data while respecting research ethics.
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Organizational Science: The New Frontier
In a constantly changing environment organizations face complex challenges and therefore an interdisciplinary level of analysis would be more appropriate in dealing with all these demands. Organizational Science is an emerging field which attempts to address the shortcomings of other disciplines that work in isolation by studying organizations and how they deal with theoretical and practical problems from a multiple perspective.
In this issue’s interview, we talked to Dr. Steven Rogelberg, Professor in the first Organizational Science doctoral program at UNCC.
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RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT AS PERIPHERAL: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING
The relation between intrinsic and extrinsic orientations was studied in four samples of believing affiliates (Bosnian Muslims, Serbian Orthodox, Slovenian Catholics and US Protestants). By exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and by multidimensional scaling (MDS), differences in patterns of religious orientations were discerned in the various cultures. By EFA, in the two European settings a closeness between intrinsic (I) and extrinsic personal (EP) orientation was noted. Beside that extrinsic other (EO) items, indicating peripheral nature of the religious sentiment, appeared as a separate dimension. The CFA produced slight differences in this direction, still allowing for a four component finding. The two dimensional presentation in MDS also indicated a similarity in pattern of the dimensions of religious orientation. In all four cases a pattern in the distribution of items appears allowing for naming the vertical axis as indicating the variation between centrality and periphery, and the horizontal one as indicating the variation between social and personal dimensions in religious sentiment.
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Religion Psychology – A Perspective on Human Beliefs and Emotions
First, we define the notion “Creator” as it is used in this article. From there, we discuss two important and contrary human beliefs.
Next, we present the situation of people who deal with troubles. From analyzing the change in their feeling, we withdraw a psychological mechanism describing the struggle between two contrary beliefs and the role of this struggle in dealing with troubles. In fact, this struggle is separated by two basic notions of time in our mind: The Past and The Future. In addition, we discuss the mutual relationship between the troubles relating to the Past and the troubles relating to the Future.
At last, we conclude about the importance of acknowledging and controlling these two contrary beliefs.
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Clinical inclusion of dissociative episodes-a case study
We described a clinical case presenting with dissociative and PTSD-like symptoms and we attempted a diagnosis and some symptom explanations in the light of existing theories about trauma and dissociation.
KEYWORDS: dissociation, posttraumatic stress syndrome, trauma theory
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An Alternative Support Model to the Medical Model of Medication for Long Term Schizophrenia
Some historical background to schizophrenia is also outlined. The theory is that alternative support like long term clinical hypnotherapy and long term CBT plus psychotherapy and counselling is effective in helping some schizophrenics to reduce their medications to improve their quality of life.
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THE ARCHETYPAL FEMALE IN MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION:
For decades, Carl Gustav Jung treated many thousands of patients and explored many of the world’s mythologies and religions. His empirical and scholarly research led him to conclude that all humanity shares an instinct to produce images and concepts based on universal themes. These themes he termed archetypes, and the commonly shared instinct he called the Collective Unconscious. Of these many themes, two female archetypes, the anima and the mother, are explored in this two-part discussion.
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