Religion and happiness: Consensus, contradictions, comments and concerns

By C. Lewis, S. Cruise. 2006

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77549cbf39c71f3693bdb7d88748ac768dbe4c6b

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In Health

1. V. Saroglou
2. K. Pargament
3. A. Mahoney
4. E. Diener
5. D. Rosmarin
6. Abbes Belgoumidi
7. Chu Kim-prieto
8. Coralie Buxant

In Social Psychology

1. V. Saroglou
2. Chu Kim-prieto
3. E. Diener
4. Habib Tiliouine
5. Abbes Belgoumidi
6. S. Cathcart
7. Warren J. Sillick
8. Coralie Buxant

In Sociology and Political Science

1. K. Pargament
2. V. Saroglou
3. E. Diener
4. A. Mahoney
5. D. Rosmarin
6. Coralie Buxant
7. Chu Kim-prieto
8. Abbes Belgoumidi

Citations in the corpus

• The role of religiousness in anxiety, depression, and happiness in a Jewish community sample: A preliminary investigation (2009, background): “Most studies in this area have found positive associations between these constructs (Ellison, 1991 ; Lewis & Cruise, 2006 ).”
• Religion as a source of variation in the experience of positive and negative emotions (2009, background): “In order to better understand this apparent contradiction, researchers have called for greater clarity in the operationalization of the constructs under investigation (Pargament, 2002 ; see also Lewis & Cruise, 2006 ), as well as better understanding of the role of various mediators and moderators”
• The relationship between religious orientation and happiness: the mediating role of purpose in life (2014, background): “These results indicate that the relationship between religiosity and happiness is more complex than previously suggested (Lewis & Cruise, 2006).”
• Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidences for a New Domain in the Personal Well-Being Index (2009, unknown): “A second wave of economist such as Clark and Oswald (2002) as well as Layard (2005) and Easterlin (2001, 2003) have recently conducted empirical work in this field.”
• Life Satisfaction and Happiness in Turkey (2008, background): “Rojas (2001), Chen (2001) for age, Myers and Diener (1995), Lewis and Cruise (2006) for religion, Diener et al. (1999), Kousha and Mohseni (1997) for marriage.”
• Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “seem to play a protective role in managing terror of death (Friedman & Rholes, 2007, 2008; Jonas & Fischer, 2006 ).”
• An Exploratory Study of Religiosity, Meaning in Life and Subjective Wellbeing in Muslim Students from Algeria (2009, background): “Methodological issues, such as how best to measure religiosity, are also omnipresent in this search, and have created difficulties in integrating research (Lewis and Cruise 2006; Abdel-Khalek 2006).”