Jeff Bjorck's Recommendations--Updated

Bjorck, J. P. (2007). Faith, coping, and illusory control: Psychological constructs with theological ramifications. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 26, 195-206.

Bjorck, J. P., & Thurman, J. W. (2007). Negative life events, patterns of positive and negative religious coping, and psychological functioning. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 46, 159-167.

Fiala, W. E., Bjorck, J. P., & Gorsuch, R. L. (2002). The Religious Support Scale: Construction, validation, and cross-validation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 761-786.
Pargament, K. I., Koenig, H. G., & Perez, L. M. (2000). The many methods of religious coping: Development and initial validation of the RCOPE. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56, 519-543.
Radcliffe, N. M., & Klein, W. M. P. (2002). Dispositional, unrealistic, and comparative optimism: Differential relations with the knowledge and processing of risk information and beliefs about personal risk. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 836-846.


and coming soon...

Lazar, A., & Bjorck, J. P. (in press). Religious support and psychosocial well-being among a religious Jewish population. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture.