The Importance of Spirituality in Well-Being for Jews and Christians

By Adam B. Cohen. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction (2012, background): “Spiritual beliefs contribute to life satisfaction because they instill meaning and direction, offer senses of beauty, uplift, and optimism, provide explanations for events, give a sense of closeness to God, and offer comfort in difficult times, and these characteristics are above and beyond the larg”
Faith versus practice: different bases for religiosity judgments by Jews and Protestants (2003, background): “A recently conducted series of studies on the relationships between religiosity and life satisfaction also supports the claim that religious behavior is about equally salient to Jews and Christians, while religious belief is more salient to Christians than to Jews (Cohen, 2002).”
Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, background): “Several studies have reported similar positive relations including that spirituality or religiousness is associated with life satisfaction (Kelley and Miller 2007), happiness (Abdel-Khalek 2006; Argyle 2001; Francis et al. 2000, 2003a; French and Joseph 1999), and well-being (Ciarrocchi and Deneke 2”
Religion as a source of variation in the experience of positive and negative emotions (2009, background): “Cohen (2002), for example, found that different aspects of religion predict SWB for Christians and Jews.”
Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidences for a New Domain in the Personal Well-Being Index (2009, unknown): “This new domain is tested because previous studies (Cohen 2002; Clark and Lelkes 2005) have proposed that religiosity and spirituality are important considerations for satisfaction with life and that the link between spirituality and life satisfaction should be furthered researched particularly amon”
Religiousness and happiness in three nations: a research note (2008, background): “Likewise Cohen (2002) reported in this journal: ‘‘In different samples and with different measures, congregational support and public practice of religion appear to correlate similarly with measures of life satisfaction for members of different religions.’’”
Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction in young Catholics and Protestants (2005, background): “…Wndings suggest surprisingly strong relationships between religious belief and wellbeing, particularly among Christians, for whom religious beliefs may be especially salient aspects of religious membership (Cohen, 2002; Cohen, Hall, Koenig, & Meador, in press; Cohen, Siegel, & Rozin, 2003).”
Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds (2011, background): “Cohen (2002) found that belief was a strong predictor of life satisfaction, and significantly more so for Christians than for Jews.”