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    The document summarizes and critiques two research articles on social courage and the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, and well-being. The first article examined potential antecedents of social courage from different categories and found that both fixed and malleable factors can influence employees' social courage. The second article investigated how compassion, spirituality, appreciation, and self-sacrifice mediate the link between religiosity and well-being, finding that religiosity indirectly improves welfare through altruism and forgiveness. Both studies had limitations such as an inability to prove causality and narrow samples. Future research could employ longitudinal methods over longer periods and consider more demographic variables. The research procedures, such

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    The document summarizes and critiques two research articles on social courage and the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, and well-being. The first article examined potential antecedents of social courage from different categories and found that both fixed and malleable factors can influence employees' social courage. The second article investigated how compassion, spirituality, appreciation, and self-sacrifice mediate the link between religiosity and well-being, finding that religiosity indirectly improves welfare through altruism and forgiveness. Both studies had limitations such as an inability to prove causality and narrow samples. Future research could employ longitudinal methods over longer periods and consider more demographic variables. The research procedures, such

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    Articles’ Summary and Critique

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    Articles’ Summary and Critique

    This paper summarizes and critiques the content of the research articles provided. In their

    current research, Howard & Cogswell (2019) examined social courage's potential antecedents

    from five diverse categories: personality, demographic, leadership, job, and cultural

    characteristics. In attaining their findings, the researchers examine courage and undertake three

    empirical studies to classify the bond of potential antecedents with potential intermediaries and

    behavioral and social courage. Additionally, the results are incorporated with the previous

    exploration besides the fact that the researchers provide recommendations for the sustained

    research of the courage’s left side. According to the text, the main findings or results of the study

    indicated that specific variables from all antecedent categories had a substantial connection with

    social courage, indicating that malleable as well as fixed antecedents might trigger staff

    members' social courage. For that reason, businesses deserve to consider varying aspects of the

    workers and work setting to encourage social courage, while scholars must consider numerous

    imminent research avenues to comprehend better social courage antecedents (Howard &

    Cogswell, 2019).

    There are several limitations of the research. For example, causality can never be firmly

    reinforced with the methodology of the existing studies. Besides, although these studies might

    provide backup for potential antecedents, they can never authoritatively classify the behavioral

    and social courage antecedents. Moreover, the researchers took most of the practical scales from

    previous studies. The initial scholars of these scales generated backing for their psychometric

    legitimacy and properties. Therefore, the recurrent use of these measures and increasing proof

    offer further backing for their rationality. However, some of these scales were modified from

    past research, meaning that these scales' psychometric legitimacy and properties can never be
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    assured. Some of these measures explored alleged social courage dangers and advantages that,

    although used by the WSCS, requested participants to account for the scope of alleged

    advantages and profits related to each behavior.

    According to the authors, future research must reflect the time needed to change

    behavioral and social courage practically, which might take months or years. They should even

    utilize longitudinal study methods spanning this duration to examine impacts.

    The research design is the part of the researchers' work that could be improved. The

    researchers are referencing old articles from as late as 1993 to support the findings of their study.

    A lot has happened from the 1990s to the twenty-first century, and there is the possibility that

    their findings are not up-to-date. Thus, this part could be improved by consulting current peer-

    reviewed articles to make the results of the research reliable. The researchers could have at least

    referenced sources published ten years ago to date to guarantee that they do not miss anything

    that happened lately.

    On the other hand, Sharma & Singh (2019) directed their research to investigate the

    mediating role of compassion, spirituality, appreciation, and self-sacrifice in the causal affiliation

    between religiosity as well as fitness. The study's main findings showed that religiosity indirectly

    fosters welfare via altruism and forgiveness causal pathways. Besides, Sharma & Singh (2019)

    found spirituality to arbitrate the association between welfare and religiosity because religions

    aim to nurture spirituality in their followers.

    The researchers comprehensively interpret their research findings, helping the general

    audience understand. This research establishes spirituality and religiosity's role in influencing

    constructive welfare and virtues amongst people in Indian settings. It even generates experts and

    impending scientists’ perceptions into examining spirituality, religious conviction, and optimistic
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    virtues for encouraging people's psychological health, more so within Asian and the Indian

    setting.

    According to Sharma & Singh (2019), spirituality and religious conviction provide a

    solid base for the optimistic welfare and virtuous experience. Participation in spiritual practices

    steadily strengthens constructive virtues. Knowing the mechanisms by which spirituality

    influences well-being is vital because it can stimulate imminent interventions whose goal is to

    advance welfare within or outside of a spiritual setting. Within spiritual settings, these results

    highlight that the spiritual practices and lessons which persuade and increase virtues can advance

    followers’ well-being.

    There are different limitations of this study. For instance, the research sample was narrow

    since the researchers were predominantly young adults living in Delhi NCR. According to the

    article, the authors should have even studied the socioeconomic status role as well as inter-

    religion assessment. The other limitation of the research is that Sharma & Singh (2019)

    references old articles, which could be useless because their content needs to be first updated

    before being borrowed to donate to the findings of this research. As Sharma & Singh (2019)

    note, future scholars can study the results’ generalizability across various demographic variables

    comprising age, religious conviction, and socioeconomic status.

    This research procedure could be improved whereby, the researchers sent e-mails to the

    participants that contained the link for the research questionnaire. They even had to fill in the

    research questionnaire via the provided URL. Then, researchers gathered the data filled and

    saved it on an internet portal. This procedure could be improved by incorporating it with the one-

    on-one interview because some participants could have ignored the e-mail sent to them since it
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    was in link form. This was a risky procedure because the participants could have clicked a

    phishing e-mail, where they would have become cyberattack victims.


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    References

    Howard, M. C., & Cogswell, J. E. (2019). The left side of courage: Three exploratory studies on the

    antecedents of social courage. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(3), 324-340.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2018.1426780

    Sharma, S., & Singh, K. (2019). Religion and well-being: The mediating role of positive virtues. Journal

    of religion and health, 58(1), 119-131.

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0559-5

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