Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
Department
Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology
First Advisor
Michael Vogel, Psy.D.
Second Advisor
Kathleen Gathercoal, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Julie Oyemaja, Psy.D.
Abstract
The lack of communal warmth and increased polarization across the globe add urgency to the call for renewed efforts to develop relationally-focused persons and communities. Solidarity, understood as a virtue, is conceptualized to cultivate group-minded individuals able to embody values, motivations, and behaviors inherent to developing social harmony and equity. After conceptualizing solidarity as a virtue, this study implemented an intervention to increase the solidarity virtue trait. The intervention was a 5-day educational and reflective exercise. Analysis of results assessed the relationship between individuals pursuing community flourishing and the intervention via multiple regression. Results were consistent with the theory of neo- Aristotelianism and the virtue as solidarity, specifically. Notably, the number of reflective diary entries completed negatively predicted individuals engaging in community flourishing, suggesting the intervention increased participant awareness and produced more honest selfappraisal of relational abilities. Solidarity virtue invention is a potential way to develop altruistic values, motivations, and behaviors.
Recommended Citation
George, Marshal P., "The Virtue of Solidarity: A Profile and Intervention" (2022). Doctor of Psychology (PsyD). 554.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/psyd/554