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Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil. Oct 2009

Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, 2009: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-16; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence Frizzell Oct 2009

Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, 2009: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-16; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


How Does One Become Spiritual? The Spiritual Modeling Inventory Of Life Environments (Smile), Doug Oman, Carl E. Thoresen, Crystal L. Park, Philip R. Shaver, Ralph W. Hood, Thomas G. Plante Jul 2009

How Does One Become Spiritual? The Spiritual Modeling Inventory Of Life Environments (Smile), Doug Oman, Carl E. Thoresen, Crystal L. Park, Philip R. Shaver, Ralph W. Hood, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

We report psychometric properties, correlates and underlying theory of the Spiritual Modeling Index of Life Environments (SMILE), a measure of perceptions of spiritual models, defined as everyday and prominent people who have functioned for respondents as exemplars of spiritual qualities, such as compassion, self-control, or faith. Demographic, spiritual, and personality correlates were examined in an ethnically diverse sample of college students from California, Connecticut, and Tennessee (N=1010). A summary measure of model influence was constructed from perceived models within family, school, religious organization, and among prominent individuals from both tradition and media. The SMILE, based on concepts from Bandura's (1986) …