Research - What You Bring Matters

New Clergy Display Moderately Strong Sense of Self-Efficacy

“How strongly do you believe that you are able to achieve the goals and aims of your work?” This may seem like an odd question to ask pastors and priests. Isn’t God really the one in charge?

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Is There a “Clergy Personality”?

One powerful force that clergy bring to their ministry and leadership is personality. Qualities of personality shape how the work of ministry and leadership gets done (or doesn't get done!).

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Introverted or Extraverted? Does it Matter?

The Clergy Into Action Study found that recently ordained pastors and priests see themselves across the entire range of introversion-to-extraversion.

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How Do Clergy Engage Emotions?

Are you more emotionally controlled or more wide-ranging and variable in your emotional responses? Newer clergy vary widely in emotional control-to-responsiveness—but lean toward emotional control.

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Is Self-Reliance a Dirty Word for Clergy and the Church?

Clergy stand out markedly from workers and leaders in other fields in their gravitation toward dependency and away from self-reliance. Newer pastors and priests scored even lower.

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Exploring the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Leadership Effectiveness

Does a disposition of confidence and clarity have anything to do with leadership and balanced living? We looked for correlations in our survey data from Transition into Ministry alumni.

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