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The Religious Meaning System and Subjective Well-Being
Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 2014The purpose of this article is to test hypotheses that meaning in life can be a mediator in the relations between religiousness expressed in terms of a meaning system and subjective well-being. Previous research on religion and well-being has left some questions unanswered. Associations of the religious meaning system and subjective well-being turn out
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Mental well-being in the religious and the non-religious: evidence for a curvilinear relationship
Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2010Previous studies demonstrating a positive relationship between religiosity and mental health have sampled from a highly religious general population with little differentiation between weak religiosity and non-religiosity. Church members are typically compared with non-religious unaffiliated individuals, thus confounding belief with group effects (e.g.
Luke William Galen, James D. Kloet
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Religious support and psychosocial well-being among a religious Jewish population
Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2008The three subscales of the Religious Support Scale assess perceived support from a person’s religious community, religious leaders, and God. This three-factor structure was replicated in the current study with a sample of 277 religious Jewish persons residing in Israel.
Aryeh Lazar, Jeffrey P. Bjorck
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Predictors of existential and religious well-being among cancer patients
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2010Well-being and mental health are not only direct functions of amount of stress, but also depend on how people appraise and face critical situations. Spiritual well-being seems to be a central component of psychological health in physically healthy individuals and it offers some protection against end-of-life despair in those with chronic diseases.
Eva Mazzotti +4 more
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Dimensions of Religious/Spiritual Well-Being and the Dark Triad of Personality
Psychopathology, 2014<b><i>Background:</i></b> In general, religious/spiritual dimensions are found to be negatively correlated with all kinds of psychiatric disorders such as depression, suicidal ideation and substance abuse. Contrary to these findings, the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between dimensions of religious ...
Monika, Kämmerle +4 more
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Religious Experience, Loneliness, and Subjective Well-being
1994Transition from high school to university or college is a familiar and important experience for many young people. It involves “new beginnings” in several domains and requires dealing with novel physical and academic environments, building new social relationships, learning new ways of relating to parents and family, accepting new responsibilities and ...
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Religious segregation and well-being in Northern Ireland
2009Background: Segregation is a salient characteristic of almost every aspect of life in Northern Ireland from residential environments and schooling to social activities. Research among racial minority groups in America has suggested that segregation may play a key role in the psychological well-being and positive esteem of minority individuals.
McAloney, K., Stringer, M.
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Religious Cognitions and Well-Being: A Meaning Perspective
2017The vast majority of research on the topic of religion and well-being has focused on behaviors (e.g., service attendance, prayer), motivation (e.g., intrinsic religiousness), or inner experiences (e.g., transcendence). Instead, the present chapter focuses on the important and understudied intersection of religious beliefs and well-being.
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