在宗教背景下使用日常祷告来测试感恩的功能
Patty Van Cappellen1, Amanda M Bernal1, Sara B Algoe2
1Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|November 30, 2025
概括
在祷告中向上帝表达感激之情 (GTG) 会加强一个人与神的关系,并增加对祷告的积极想法. 这项研究探讨了GTG对基督徒宗教实践的影响.
科学领域:
- 宗教心理学的宗教心理学
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 感恩是一种常见的宗教表达,在祈祷中向上帝表达.
- 了解维持宗教实践的因素对于宗教团体至关重要.
- 关于感恩和动机的理论框架被用来指导这项研究.
研究的目的:
- 研究对上帝的感恩 (GTG) 对与神的关系的影响.
- 检查GTG对重复祈祷的激励显著性的影响.
- 开发和应用自动化文本分析方法来研究祷告内容.
主要方法:
- 收集了93个基督徒在2周内 (1118个祈祷) 的口头祈祷和日记数据.
- 开发并使用了两种自动化文本分析方法:基于字典和GPT-4,以量化转录的祈祷中的GTG.
- GTG表达水平与自我报告的与神的关系以及对祈祷的激励突出程度相关联.
主要成果:
- 感谢上帝 (GTG) 经常在基督徒的祷告中得到表达.
- 个人祷告中更高的GTG表达与与神改善的关系有关.
- 增加的GTG也与更大的激励突出 (积极的自发思想) 与祈祷相关.
- 该研究发现GTG对祈祷行为重复的影响的证据有限.
结论:
- 对神的感恩显著增强了与神的关系和祷告的动机方面.
- 自动化文本分析提供了一种可行的方法来研究像祈祷这样的私人宗教行为.
- 这些发现有助于在宗教背景下对感恩的理论理解,并提供了方法学的见解.
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