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Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture

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Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus: the impact of culture, language, and religious participation on responses to the Dreaming Mysticism Scale

Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture September 13, 2016 R. E. Sears, R. Hood

ABSTRACT This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies...

Meditative insight: validation of a French version of Ireland’s Insight Scale (2012) and exploration of relationships between meditative insight and perceived stress

Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture September 13, 2016 Liudmila Gamaiunova, P. Brandt, Matthias Kliegel

ABSTRACT Meditative insight has been defined in previous research as a process of cognitive change based on the understanding through personal experience of the fundamental Buddhist concepts of impermanence, suffering, not-self, and emptiness. It has been proposed that the construct of insight represents an important mechanism in meditative practices, and an instrument for its assessment has...