The Psychology of Worldviews

By Mark E. Koltko-Rivera. 2004

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Unethical and Unwell: Decrements in Well-Being and Unethical Activity at Work (2010, background): “First, ethical infractions challenge one’s pivotal values and beliefs that are tied to assumptions one holds about the world and how it operates (Koltko-Rivera, 2004).”
Stressors, anxiety, acculturation and adjustment among international and North American students (2008, background): “Previous studies have suggested the need for further research in the area of international students in order to help with their assimilation and acculturation issues (Ladd & Ruby, 1999; Selvadurai, 1992).”
The Effects of Social Influence and Cognitive Dissonance on Travel Purchase Decisions (2015, methodology): “The NEP scale was chosen because it represents a worldview, which is “a set of assumptions about physical and social reality that may have powerful effects on cognition and behavior” (Koltko-Rivera 2004).”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “For example, Koltko-Rivera (2004) described 42 worldview dimensions, including those of the WAS as well as many others (e.g., time orientation, relations to authority).”
Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, background): “The types of core beliefs that are crucial to the experience of a sense of meaning require further exploration (for a review of other core beliefs, see Koltko-Rivera, 2004).”
Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion (2018, background): “Within psychology, Koltko-Rivera (2004) proposed a definition of worldviews and a research agenda for a social psychology of worldviews.”
Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “Conceptions of well-being and other worldview beliefs have been suggested to be relatively stable over time (e.g., Koltko-Rivera 2004), and consistent with this assertion, each of the subscales of the BWBS showed acceptable test-retest reliability.”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “People’s meaning frameworks—their mental representations of how things are— outline for them what ends and states are desirable and worth striving for (Heine et al., 2006; Koltko-Rivera, 2004).”
Exploring inner and outer worlds: A quantitative study of worldviews, environmental attitudes, and sustainable lifestyles (2014, background): “1 Other disciplinary approaches have suggested comparable aspects (e.g. Johnson et al., 2011; Koltko-Rivera, 2004), with the first three aspects of ontology, epistemology, and axiology being the most common ones, thus suggesting a fair degree of interdisciplinary agreement and overlap.”
Testing the Meaning Making Model of Coping With Loss (2008, background): “Global beliefs are the core schemas through which people interpret their experiences of the world (Janoff-Bulman, 1989; Koltko-Rivera, 2004).”
Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches (2013, background): “Global beliefs form the core schemas through which people interpret their experiences (Koltko-Rivera, 2004) and consist of many beliefs regarding aspects such as justice, controllability, predictability, and the self (Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Leary & Tagney, 2012).”
Ecological Identity: The Development and Assessment of a Measurement Scale (2018, background): “As they are conceptualized in the literature, values and worldviews represent general (or distal) sets of beliefs about reality and goals about the future, which lead to more specific (or proximal) beliefs and attitudes about the self, others, and behavior (Dunlap et al., 2000; Koltko-Rivera, 2004; ”
Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Unification (2006, background): “Worldviews are sets of assumptions held by individuals and cultures about the physical and social universe (Koltko-Rivera, 2004).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, background): “It has been noted that cultural worldviews and values overlap conceptually (Corner, Markowitz, & Pidgeon, 2014; Koltko-Rivera, 2004), because cultures are essentially comprised of and characterized by their underlying values structures (Hofstede, 2001; Schwartz, 1992).”