TARGET ARTICLE: The Bitter and the Sweet: An Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Religiousness

By K. Pargament. 2002

642 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. M. Steger
2. E. Diener
3. P. Frazier
4. C. Ellison
5. Louis Tay
6. D. Myers
7. Crystal L. Park
8. Mark E. Koltko-Rivera

In Health

1. K. Pargament
2. E. Diener
3. C. Ellison
4. H. Koenig
5. Crystal L. Park
6. Louis Tay
7. Hisham Abu Raiya
8. M. Steger

In Sociology and Political Science

1. H. Koenig
2. Crystal L. Park
3. C. Ellison
4. K. Pargament
5. E. Diener
6. Aaron C. Kay
7. M. Steger
8. P. Frazier

Citations in the corpus

• Meaning in Life: One Link in the Chain From Religiousness to Well-Being (2005, methodology): “Extrinsic religiousness is generally associated with poorer mental health (Pargament, 2002a; Smith, McCullough, & Poll, 2003).”
• Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Religious Identity (2013, background): “…salutary associations between religiousness and mental health, investigators have increasingly called for a more balanced approach, recognizing that some aspects of religious engagement may undermine emotional well-being (Exline, 2002; Pargament, 2002; Pargament, Murray-Swank, Magyar, & Ano, 2005).”
• A DECADE OF RESEARCH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND COPING: Things we assumed and lessons we learned (2007, background): “…coping is positively and persistently associated with desirable mental health indicators (Smith, Pargament, Brant & Oliver, 2000; Tarakeshwar & Pargament, 2001; 2002; Narin & Merluzzi, 2003; Smith, McCullough & Poll 2003; Ai, Peterson & Huang, 2003; Meisenhelder & Marcum, 2004; Pieper, 2004;…”
• Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “Reviewing the religion-adjustment literature, Pargament (2002) concluded that the question was too broad.”
• Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality. Implications for physical and mental health research. (2003, background): “Second, implicit in the evolving definitions is the sense that spirituality is good and religion is bad; this simplistic perspective overlooks the potentially helpful and harmful sides of both religion and spirituality (Pargament, 2002).”
• Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, neutral): “In terms of process models, Pargament (2002) noted that there are many potential mediators of religiosity and SWB, including the social support that comes from belonging to a religious community, the sense of meaning that may come with some religious beliefs, and potential benefits from specific…”
• Religion as a source of variation in the experience of positive and negative emotions (2009, background): “Some reviews and meta-analyses have found no relation, while others have found only weak relations (e.g., Gartner, Larson, & Allen, 1991; Hackney & Sanders, 2003; Pargament, 2002; Payne, Bergin, Bielma, & Jenkins, 1991; Smith, McCullough, & Poll, 2003).”
• Development, refinement, and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward God Scale (ATGS-9). (2010, neutral): “…(e.g., Edmondson, Park, Chaudoir, & Wortmann, 2008; McConnell, Pargament, Ellison, & Flannelly, 2006; for reviews, see Exline & Rose, 2005; Pargament, 2002; Pargament, Murray-Swank, et al., 2005; Pargament, Koenig, Tarakeshwar, & Hahn, 2004,), and may predict poorer physical health…”
• The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out? (2011, positive): “Pargament (2002) proposed that when people face problems that push them to their limits . . . religion offers a number of aids: spiritual support, ultimate explanation, a sense of larger, benevolent, forces at work in the universe, and a purpose in life that holds sacred significance.”
• Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Unification (2006, background): “We must make sense of the great deal of research literature that finds positive associations between spiritual or mystical experience and measures of psychological health (e.g., Argyle & Hills, 2000; Byrd, Lear, & Schwenka, 2000; Hunt, Dougan, Grant, & House, 2002; Koltko, 1991; Koltko-Rivera, 2006;”