Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta–Analysis of Recent Studies

By C. Hackney, G. S. Sanders. 2003

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Attachment to God, Stressful Life Events, and Changes in Psychological Distress (2012, background): “Considerable research suggests that religious involvement is associated with desirable mental health outcomes (Ellison and Levin 1998; Hackney and Sanders 2003; Smith et al. 2003).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “A meta-analysis has estimated an average effect of r = .10 between religiosity and general psychological well-being (Hackney and Sanders 2003).”
Religiosity and its association with positive and negative emotions among college students from Algeria (2007, background): “As for the association between religiosity and mental health, Hackney and Sanders ( 2003 ) carried out a meta-analysis of recent studies.”
Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, background): “A meta-analysis (Hackney and Sanders 2003) reported an overall correlation (r = .”
Religiosity, happiness, health, and psychopathology in a probability sample of Muslim adolescents (2007, background): “Moreover, numerous results of studies carried out on Western subjects, mainly Christian and Jewish, have reached the same conclusion (see, eg, Francis et al, 2000 ; Hackney & Sanders, 2003 ; Hill & Pargament, 2003 ; Kennedy, 1998 ; Koenig et al, 2001 ; Levin & Chatters, 1998 ).”
Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being (2008, background): “Religious involvement has also been found to be positively related to more objective measures of well-being such as mental and physical health (e.g., Hackney & Sanders, 2003; Larson et al., 1992; Seybold & Hill, 2001).”
Associations between religiosity, mental health, and subjective well-being among Arabic samples from Egypt and Kuwait (2012, neutral): “…and both health and SWB in its broad sense (Chatters, 2000; Ellison, 1991; Francis, Jones, & Wilcox, 2000; Ferriss, 2002; Greene & Yoon, 2004, Hackney & Sanders, 2003; Koenig, 1997, 2004; Koenig, McCullough, & Larson, 2001; Larson et al., 1992; Larson & Larson, 1994; Levin & Chatters, 1998;…”
Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments (2011, background): “, [38]), the intensity or centrality of religiosity [39,40] is prominently integrated into our model.”
RESEARCH: "Measuring Private Prayer: Development, Validation, and Clinical Application of the Multidimensional Prayer Inventory" (2004, result): “Such correlations between prayer and health factors are consistent with other research showing that people with faith tend to be more optimistic (Sethi & Seligman, 1993), happy (Ellison, 1991), and have an overall better sense of well-being (Hackney & Sanders, 2003; Pollner, 1989).”
Mental well-being in the religious and the non-religious: evidence for a curvilinear relationship (2011, background): “In one meta-analysis, Hackney and Sanders (2003) found a significant overall correlation of r¼þ0.”
Religious Orientation, Mature Faith, and Psychological Distress: Elements of Positive and Negative Associations (2005, background): “Indeed, Hackney and Sanders (2003) found that "institutional religion" was associated with increased distress.”
The relationships between subjective well-being, health, and religiosity among young adults from Qatar (2013, neutral): “…SWB as both a meta construct and its subcomponents (see, e.g., Ball, Armstead, & Austin, 2003; Chatters, 2000; Ferriss, 2002; Greene & Yoon, 2004; Hackney & Sanders, 2003; Harris, 2002; Hill & Pargament, 2003; Maselko & Kubansky, 2006; Okulicz-Kozaryn, 2010; Soydemir, Bastida, & Gonzalez, 2004;…”