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Taylor Danielle Akason; Cindy Miller-Perrin – Journal of College and Character, 2024
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
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Pfund, Gabrielle Nicole; Miller-Perrin, Cindy – Journal of College and Character, 2019
This study seeks to understand how faith community involvement, specifically faith community harmony (sense of belonging and lack of conflict within one's faith community), and faith community interaction (participation in one's faith community) relates to life purpose, loneliness, and well-being among college students. Participants (n = 1253)…
Descriptors: Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Religious Factors, Religion
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Karlin-Neumann, Patricia; Sanders, Joanne – Journal of College and Character, 2013
This essay examines how Stanford University, secular in its origins, yet with a church at its center, addresses the religious and spiritual concerns of current students, whether from traditional or innovative religious backgrounds. Identified religious and spiritual needs prompt questions about the balance between the spiritual health and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Spiritual Development, Religious Cultural Groups, Traditionalism