The Work-Related Psychological Health of Introverts and Extraverts in Ministry: Exploring the Balanced Affect Model
A series of quantitative studies has drawn attention to poorer levels of work-related psychological health among introverted clergy compared with extraverted clergy, in terms of introverts reporting both higher emotional exhaustion (negative affect) and lower satisfaction in ministry (positive affec...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 26, Pages: 155-165 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft |
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| Summary: | A series of quantitative studies has drawn attention to poorer levels of work-related psychological health among introverted clergy compared with extraverted clergy, in terms of introverts reporting both higher emotional exhaustion (negative affect) and lower satisfaction in ministry (positive affect). The present study employs a qualitative approach among 24 Anglican clergy to explore the differences in the accounts offered by introverts and by extraverts regarding the aspects of life and ministry that they found stressful (generating negative affect) and that they found energizing (generating positive affect). The data demonstrated important differences between the accounts given by the two groups. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004299436_011 |