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Spirituality Children's Temperment
Research Synthesis
A Synthesis of the Research on Spirituality in Young Children's Temperament and Self-Control
Years ago, when school systems actually permitted religious instruction, children were able to tap into their own spiritual sides, and were able to process their feelings about their emotions and their concerns about the world against a more nuanced and detailed spiritual backdrop. This allowed them to have a clearer sense about moral values, feeling obedient vs. disobedient, engaging in respect, honesty, truth and communicating their feelings with compassion. By allowing students to have some sort of spiritual education, educators were ensuring that they would be able to more confidently shape these children into good people who were well-rounded and who had a clearer understanding of how to behave in the world, along with stronger values of what matters most to them. However, in a secular...
Included in these contacts are religious education, service projects, youth groups and in contacts that also "extend to include the congregations engagement with families, intergenerational engagement and broader community involvement through the congregation public leadership, service, and action on behalf of children, adolescents and others in society." (Roehikepartain, 2006, p. 329). Although much of these speculation is theoretical, there have also been evidence based approaches that have reached many of the same conclusions.
One study examined the relationship between spirituality and happiness was assessed in 320 children aged 8 -- 12 from public and private (i.e.,…
Works Cited
Holder, M., Coleman, B., & Wallace, J. (2010). Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8 -- 12 Years. Journal of Happiness Studies, 131-150.
Roehikepartain, E. (2006). The Handbook of Spirtual Development in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Sage.
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