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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ralph L. Piedmont is affiliated with Loyola University Maryland in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on Health, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

The primary topics of Piedmont's work include Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Resilience and Mental Health, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Workplace Spirituality and Leadership, Education and Islamic Studies, and Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research.

Piedmont has authored several papers, some of which are:

  • "Religious Crisis as an Independent Causal Predictor of Psychological Distress: Understanding the Unique Role of the Numinous for Intrapsychic Functioning" (2020), published in Religions
  • "Establishing a Dignity Scale - Measuring Intrinsic Value within Social Contexts" (2023), published in Humanistic Management Journal
  • "Spiritual Crisis as a Unique Causal Predictor of Emotional and Characterological Impairment in Atheists and Agnostics: Numinous Motivations as Universal Psychological Qualities" (2020), published in Religions
  • "Putting the science back in the scientific study of religiousness and spirituality: A commentary on Paloutzian and Park (2021)" (2021), published in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
  • "Undergraduate Management Course that Promotes Existential Development for Business" (2022), published in Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion

The most frequent publication venues for Piedmont's work include Religions, Mental Health Religion & Culture, Humanistic Management Journal, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and the Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Piedmont include:

  • Jesse Fox
  • Seyedeh Razieh Tabaeian
  • Michael Pirson
  • Noémi Nagy
  • Donna Hicks

Piedmont has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Does Spirituality Represent the Sixth Factor of Personality? Spiritual Transcendence and the Five-Factor Model

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • Age differences in personality across the adult life span: Parallels in five cultures.

    R. R. McCrae;P. T. Costa;M. Pedroso de Lima;A. Simões

  • The Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Clinical and Research Applications

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • Spiritual Transcendence and the Scientific Study of Spirituality

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Burnout in the Health Care Setting: The Role of Personal Dispositions

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • On the invalidity of validity scales: evidence from self-reports and observer ratings in volunteer samples.

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Robert R. McCrae;Rainer Riemann;Alois Angleitner

  • Adjective Check List Scales and the Five-Factor Model

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Robert R. McCrae;Paul T. Costa

  • Folk concepts, natural language, and psychological constructs: The California Psychological Inventory and the five-factor model.

    Robert R. McCrae;Paul T. Costa;Ralph L. Piedmont

  • Paradigms of Personality Assessment

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Rebecca S. Behrends;Yossef S. Ben-Porath;Sidney J. Blatt

  • Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale in India: Spirituality as a Universal Aspect of Human Experience

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Mark M. Leach

  • The Revised NEO Personality Inventory

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  • Spiritual transcendence as a predictor of psychosocial outcome from an outpatient substance abuse program.

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • Predicting athletic performance using the five-factormodel of personality

    Ralph L Piedmont;David C Hill;Susana Blanco

  • The relation of religious belief and practices, depression, and hopelessness in persons with clinical depression.

    Patricia E. Murphy;Joseph W. Ciarrocchi;Ralph L. Piedmont;Sharon Cheston

  • The empirical and conceptual value of the spiritual transcendence and religious involvement scales for personality research.

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Joseph W. Ciarrochi;Gabriel S. Dy-Liacco;Joseph E. G. Williams

  • Spirituality and Burnout: An Incremental Validity Study

    Jonathan Golden;Ralph L. Piedmont;Joseph W. Ciarrocchi;Thomas Rodgerson

  • The Role of Personality in Understanding Religious and Spiritual Constructs.

    Ralph L. Piedmont

  • Predicting Supervisor Ratings of Job Performance Using the NEO Personality Inventory

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Harold P. Weinstein

  • Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Five-Factor Model of Personality: Development and Validation of the NEO PI-R for Koreans

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Joon-Ho Chae

  • Spirituality, well‐being, and quality of life in people with rheumatoid arthritis

    Susan J. Bartlett;Ralph Piedmont;Andrew Bilderback;Alan K. Matsumoto

  • Spirituality as a Universal Aspect of Human Experience Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale in India :

    Ralph L. Piedmont;Mark M. Leach

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin F. Sherman
Martin F. Sherman Loyola University Maryland
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
Alois Angleitner
Alois Angleitner Bielefeld University
Claudio Barbaranelli
Claudio Barbaranelli Sapienza University of Rome
Jerry S. Wiggins
Jerry S. Wiggins University of British Columbia
Rainer Riemann
Rainer Riemann Bielefeld University
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Fritz Ostendorf
Fritz Ostendorf Bielefeld University
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University

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