Gary K. Leak, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone # (402) 280-3120
Email:GARYLEAK@creighton.edu
Teaches Courses in:
Social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and research methods and statistics for majors and non-majors.
Research interests:
My primary areas of research are: (1) the connection between personal religiousness, especially faith development, and psychological well-being and distress, (2) understanding the religious and personality origins of sexual orientation prejudice, and (3) the use of structural equation modeling to scale development and validation.
Representative Publications:
Harris, J. I. & Leak, G. K. (2013). The Revised Faith Development Scale: An Option for a More Reliable Self-Report Measurement of Postconventional Religious Reasoning. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 24. Brill, The Netherlands (pp. 1-14).
Leak, G. K., & Finken, L. L. (2011). The Relationship Between the Constructs of Religiousness and Prejudice: A Structural Equation Model Analysis. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21, 43-62.
Leak, G. K. (2009). An Assessment of the Relationship Between Identity Development, Faith Development, and Religious Commitment. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 9, 201-218.
Leak, G. K. (2008). Factorial Validity of the Faith Development Scale. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 18, 123-131.
