Authors
Mengchen Dong, Song Wu, Yijie Zhu, Shenghua Jin, Yanjun Zhang
Publication date
2017/1/4
Journal
Archive for the Psychology of Religion
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
61-81
Publisher
Brill
Description
Religious beliefs in Chinese cultural background, especially in Chinese secular society, have rarely been systematically investigated. The nonreligious-based population in China endorses certain supernatural beliefs or has related transcendent experience, even though they usually claim themselves as non-believers. Therefore, the current research examined the spirituality-prosociality association in Chinese secular background, demonstrating how spiritual connection with the transcendence related to individual secular social life. A total of 440 Chinese participants completed our questionnaires in three survey studies. The results showed that: 1) for the nonreligious-based population in China, spirituality was positively connected with personal prosocial trait, prosocial attitude, and prosocial behavior; 2) the prosocial trait of compassionate love partially mediated the association between spirituality and daily …
Scholar articles
M Dong, S Wu, Y Zhu, S Jin, Y Zhang - Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 2017