The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach

By R. Bassett. 2011

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• Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence: Toward a Field of Inquiry (2003, background): “…moved beyond stage theory (e.g., Overton, 1998), spiritual development must also move beyond an overreliance on stage theory, which “implies a certain amount of discontinuity in religious [and spiritual] development,whereas itmayactuallybeareasonablycontinuous process” (Hood et al., 1996, p. 55).”
• The Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe): Relations to demographics and well-being (2009, unknown): “The effect is small but in line with the (generally dismissed; cf. Hood et al., 2003) thesis of secularization, positing that the more we know about the world, the less credible is the idea of a super-natural power.”
• Meaning-Making in an Atheist World (2011, background): “In their psychological study, Hunsberger and Altemeyer (2006) explicitly focused on atheists—more specifically, members of atheist clubs in the San Francisco Bay area, Alabama, and Idaho.”
• The Relationship between Religious Identity and Preferred Coping Strategies: An Examination of the Relative Importance of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Coping in Muslim and Christian Faiths (2010, methodology): “Most research, however, has focused on Judeo-Christian faiths in Western societies (Hood, Spilka, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 1996; Khan, Watson, & Habib, 2005), while little is known about the coping processes of people with different religious affiliations and cultures, particularly Muslims (Table 1<an”
• Mental well-being in the religious and the non-religious: evidence for a curvilinear relationship (2011, background): “Hood, Hill, & Spilka, 2009 ), these curvilinear functions or methodological problems are not mentioned.”
• Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing A New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship (2013, background): “The evidence from correlational studies is almost as equivocal (Donovan, 1994; Hood et al., 2009).”
• Frameworks of Caring and Helping in Adolescence: Are Empathy, Religiosity, and Spirituality Related Constructs? (2010, background): “Of course, caring and helping are also activities of nonreligious persons (Spilka et al., 2003), and certainly personal spirituality may encompass feelings of caring about others.”
• Religiosity and consumer behavior: a summarizing review (2019, background): “It is one of the most widely performed religious rituals (Steger and Frazier 2005) and is related to many markers of well-being (Spilka et al. 2003).”
• Socioeconomic Status and Beliefs about God's Influence in Everyday Life (2010, background): “24 SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION by on M arch 10, 2010 http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org D ow nloaded from those that seem incomprehensible (Lupfer et al. 1992; Spilka et al. 2003).”