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The Effect Of Deliberate Faking Good And Faking Bad On Spiritual Well-Being Scale Scores In A Church Sample, Alice V. Moody

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

This study investigated the effect of faking (good and bad) on Spiritual Well-being (SWB) Scale scores. It is a true experiment with three levels of the independent variable: fake good, honest responding, and fake bad instructions. The sample consisted of 172 adults from a community church Sunday School class and a group for those overcoming some addiction and/or abuse. A demographic questionnaire was given along with the SWB Scale. An analysis of variance was run for each of the dependent measures: SWB and its two subscales, Religious Well-being (RWB) and Existential Well·being (EWB) . ANOVA and Scheffe post hoc test …

Tips, Volume 08, No. 2, 1988, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• The Deathmaking Scene

• Societal Deathmaking as the Backdrop to More Specific Types of Killing

• Privatization of Deathmaking

• Deathmaking via Surrogate Decision-Making

• Pre-Birth Deathmaking

• More Utilitarianism

• Perinatal Deathmaking

• Making Dead the Children

• Disdain for Child Health & Safety

• Sexual Exploitation of Children

• "Euthanasia"

• The Slippery Slope is Alive, "Well," & Slippery

• Official/Legitimized Medical "Euthanasia"

• Free-Lance "Euthanasia" by Medical Care Personnel

• Private "Euthanasia"

• Suicide, & Its Promotion

• Deathmaking via Low Quality Practices or Abuse in Human Services

• Iron Stomach?

• The Deceptions Surrounding Deathmaking …