TY - JOUR
T1 - Social workers' personal spiritual characteristics and their conceptualizations of spirituality and religion
T2 - A mixed method study
AU - Hodge, David
AU - Boddie, Stephanie C.
N1 - Funding Information:
To operationalize respondents’ faith tradition, an item was taken from the General Social Surveys (Davis, Smith, & Marsden, 1998). Individuals were specifically asked: “Thinking about your religious faith, would you describe yourself as Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other type of faith, or no faith at all?” The GSS is the largest sociological project funded by the National Science Foundation and, after the U.S. Census, is the most extensively used dataset in the nation (National Opinion Research Center, 2005). It is widely considered to represent the state of the art in social science research.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Do social workers' personal spiritual characteristics affect their conceptualizations of spirituality and religion? In light of growing professional interest in spirituality and religion, we attempt to answer this question using amixed methods approach in conjunction with a nationally representative sample of NASW-affiliated graduate students (N = 303). The results suggest that respondents' faith tradition, orthodoxy, and degree of spiritual motivation have a relatively minor effect upon how they defined (1) spirituality, (2) religion, and (3) their understanding of the relationship between spirituality and religion. We conclude by discussing the implications of the findings and suggesting avenues for further research.
AB - Do social workers' personal spiritual characteristics affect their conceptualizations of spirituality and religion? In light of growing professional interest in spirituality and religion, we attempt to answer this question using amixed methods approach in conjunction with a nationally representative sample of NASW-affiliated graduate students (N = 303). The results suggest that respondents' faith tradition, orthodoxy, and degree of spiritual motivation have a relatively minor effect upon how they defined (1) spirituality, (2) religion, and (3) their understanding of the relationship between spirituality and religion. We conclude by discussing the implications of the findings and suggesting avenues for further research.
KW - Faith
KW - Orthodoxy
KW - Religion
KW - Spiritual motivation
KW - Spirituality
KW - Tradition
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U2 - 10.1300/J377v26n01_04
DO - 10.1300/J377v26n01_04
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34147125989
VL - 26
SP - 53
EP - 70
JO - Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work
JF - Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work
SN - 1542-6432
IS - 1
ER -
