Abstract

Presenting specialty literature background in: organic chemistry, neurology, theology and clinical psychology, in order to conceptualize and bring to the forefront the interdependency between organic chemistry, neurology, psychology and religion in describing the implications of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance is a first objective of the present paper. As such, we addressed the importance of neurotransmitters in the neurophysiology of spiritual interventions. Another specific objective was defined as measuring psychological reactions, components of the moral and religious structure of human personality, with the help of psychophysiological involved factors, in rapport with therapeutic compliance. According to the descriptive statistic of data, we found that those who do not adhere to any religious cult have greater chances of being diagnosed with a disease that necessitates daily treatment and monitoring (the percentage found was 20%), in comparison with those who are part of a religious cult (6.67 %). The estimated non-linear regression model to confirm the interdependency between the medial psychophysiological reactivity to religious stimulus and the medial score obtained in the compliance questionnaire was validated by the values of R = 0.99 and p-value=0.00≈10-10<0.05). As such, we can accept the hypothesis that “there is a statistically significant association between religious thinking and compliance”. On the other hand, the hypothesis “there is a statistically significant association between religious thinking and compliance” was validated, using the t test, only at 40%, as the results of the t test were only considered on significant components of the applied MARS questionnaire. The results given by approaching the two hypotheses through the mixture of psychophysiological and application of the MARS questionnaire consistently highlighted an image of importance of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance. The current study is useful in motivating adherents of any religion, in our study, the Christian belief, to improve their compliance. Keywords: oxcytocin, vassopressin, MARS scale, therapeutic compliance, religious experience

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  • Presenting specialty literature background in: organic chemistry, neurology, theology and clinical psychology, in order to conceptualize and bring to the forefront the interdependency between organic chemistry, neurology, psychology and religion in describing the implications of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance is a first objective of the present paper

  • The constituting elements of the design presented in table 1 are: N1 is the set of practicing religious Christians; N2 is the set of non-practicing religious Christians; X1 are religious stimulus; X2 is the self-assessment of compliance; O1 are the results of psychophysiological measurements; O2 are the scores obtained on the MARS questionnaire

  • By continuing the structural analysis to a subset level, we found that of those that do not participate in any religious cult, 60% of subjects were female and 40% of subjects were male, while in the subset of those that do participate in a religious cult, males represented 53.33%, while females the rest of 46.67%

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Introduction

Presenting specialty literature background in: organic chemistry, neurology, theology and clinical psychology, in order to conceptualize and bring to the forefront the interdependency between organic chemistry, neurology, psychology and religion in describing the implications of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance is a first objective of the present paper. In the paper “The neuroscientific study of spiritual practices”[3] Newberg mentions, regarding the neurophysiology of spiritual interventions, that the latter implies comparing psycho-spiritual measurements with neurobiological parameters, such as: activity of neurotransmitters [4], cerebral metabolism, electrical activity of the cerebral cortex and cerebral blood flow. Physiological parameters, such as: cardiac rhythm, blood pressure, galvanic skin response and body temperature are subject to a correlation analysis in rapport with neuroimaging in order to reveal the consequences of spiritual/religious practice

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