The APA's 2017 multicultural guidelines task psychologists with the aspirational goal of understanding the nuances of historical and contemporary systems of power, privilege, and oppression. Scholars such as Helms (1984) demonstrated the critical need to readjust psychology's fo…
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A review of the literature suggests that East Asians adhere to relationship norms that are based on the traditional Asian worldviews of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. For East Asian Americans who operate within multiple cultural contexts, differences in norms may contribute…
Understanding intergroup relations and the anxiety that can result has become increasingly relevant to interactions between Muslim and non-Muslim individuals due to current tensions between Islamic groups and many Western nations (e.g., acts of terrorism in Madrid and London, th…
Individuals with dementia show a progressive decline in cognitive functioning which results in an inability to complete activities of daily living (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Early diagnosis of dementia is a positive prognostic indicator (World Alzheimer Report, 20…
Locus of control (LOC) has moved from experimental and clinical psychology, where it originated, to many other subfields including health and religion. Currently, the psychometric evidence for God Health Locus of Control (God HLOC) measures’ reliability and validity is relativel…
Religiosity is an oft-studied construct with few consistent findings. There are many reported physical and psychological health benefits to religiosity (such as being at lower risk for depression), in addition to deleterious effects, such as: being positively linked to increased…