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Are clergy serving yoked congregations more vulnerable to burnout? : a study among clergy serving in the Presbyterian church (USA) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Pressures generated by increasing secularization and decreasing vocations to ordained ministry are resulting across denominations in a growing number of clergy serving more than one congregation.
Leslie J. Francis   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Ministry and stress : listening to Anglican clergy in Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study set out to examine the experiences of stress in ministry among a sample of Anglican clergy serving in Wales. Building on recent quantitative studies of work-related psychological health among Anglican clergy in England, the study employed ...
Paul Rolph   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Clergy work-related satisfactions in parochial ministry: the influence of personality and churchmanship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The aim of this study was to test several hypotheses that clergy work-related satisfaction could be better explained by a multidimensional rather than a unidimensional model.
Hills, P. R.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale: reliability, factor structure and preliminary application among Australian clergy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study assesses the Oswald Clergy Burnout Scale (OCBI), the psychometric properties of which have not been previously described. Analysis of responses from a large number (N  = 3,012) of ministers in charge of Australian congregations showed that the
Kaldor, Peter   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing the effectiveness of support strategies in reducing professional burnout among clergy serving in the Presbyterian Church (USA) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The pastoral care and support of the clergy is an issue of growing concern to denominational leaders in the light of reported levels of stress in ministry, sickness, and early retirement.
Robbins, Mandy   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Mass sources on the personnel of the orthodox and Roman-Catholic clergy of the end of the 18th – the beginning of the 20th century

open access: yesЖурнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2020
In the archival funds of the Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Consistories at the National Historical Archive of Belarus mass sources on the personnel are stored – clergy lists and service records of clergy.
Zinaida V. Antanovich
doaj   +1 more source

Image of the Christian Clergy in the Ghanaian Media: A Study of the Daily Guide Newspaper [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This article examined how the Daily Guide newspaper, through its publication of certain stories, framed the Christian clergy in Ghana. The study, which utilized the mixed-method approach, also employed the gatekeeping and framing theories in its quest to
Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Russian Foreign Clergy in the 19th Century in Western Europe: General Tendencies and Peculiarities [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2016
The article is devoted to general tendencies and peculiarities of а special group of Russian clergy, located at the embassies in the countries of Western Europe. Formed in the Synodal period, this category of clergy was under a double jurisdiction.
Gogorian Kristina
doaj   +1 more source

The psychological type profile of readers in the Church of England : clones of the clergy or distinctive voices? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The present study employs Jungian psychological type theory to examine the profile of 236 Readers serving in the Church of England (108 males and 128 females) alongside previously published data providing the psychological type profile of clergy serving ...
Robbins, M   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The relationship between recalled self-esteem as a child and current levels of professional burnout among Anglican clergy in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This study links and tests three strands of theory concerned with explaining individual differences in levels of professional burnout in general and among religious professionals in particular. These three strands concern the significance of current self-
Paul Rolph   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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