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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Researchers (including IR/IE) Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Researchers (including IR/IE) Tidy Studios

Assessing Student Formation: A New Set of Core Assessment Tools

The definitive introduction to the Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA)—a 50-item suite of assessments measuring spiritual dwelling, seeking, struggle, and emotion regulation in seminarians.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; assessment instrument; Colloquy article; emotion regulation; psychometrics; Relational Spirituality Model (RSM); Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA); seminary students; sense of community; spiritual dwelling; spiritual formation; spiritual seeking; theological education; training resources; virtues

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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Researchers (including IR/IE) Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors, Researchers (including IR/IE) Tidy Studios

Spiritual Formation among Students at Christian Seminaries: Mature Alterity, Symptoms, and Well-Being

Person-centered analysis using the Relational Spirituality Model (RSM) identifies four seminary student subgroups, with "regulated seekers" showing mature alterity, flourishing, and stable balanced spirituality over time.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; flourishing; mature alterity; mixture modeling; relational spirituality; spiritual formation

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios

Latent Profiles of Seminary Students' Perceptions of Sense of Community amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mixture modeling of 867 seminary students during COVID-19 identifies three sense-of-community subgroups (strongly connected, moderately connected, disaffected) with distinct well-being and spirituality profiles.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; flourishing; mixture modeling; relational spirituality; sense of community; well-being

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Other Institutional Administration, Students/Seminarians Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Other Institutional Administration, Students/Seminarians Tidy Studios

The Biobehavioral Family Model with a Seminarian Population: A Systems Perspective of Clinical Care

Structural equation modeling applies the Biobehavioral Family Model to seminarians, finding higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population and supporting systemic clinical care.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; anxiety; Biobehavioral Family Model; depression; family; health; relationships; seminarians; seminary students

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