Why religion? Meaning as motivation.

By Crystal L. Park, Donald Edmondson, Amy Hale-Smith. 2013

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7b7eb06da1d91f6739c2559556cd3bbf9df5a0a5

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In Health

1. Crystal L. Park
2. Login S. George
3. B. Larner
4. A. Blow

In Social Psychology

1. Login S. George
2. Crystal L. Park
3. T. Schnell
4. M. Steger
5. J. Prooijen
6. Frank Martela

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Login S. George
2. Crystal L. Park

Citations in the corpus

• Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, background): “As this is a more salient function of religiousness and spirituality than the provision of a sense of goals and enthusiasm and excitement regarding the future, it is to be expected that religion and spirituality would be more closely associated with meaning than with purpose (Park, 2013; Park et al.”