Religious involvement, spirituality and personal meaning for life: Existential predictors of psychological wellbeing in community-residing and institutional care elders

By P. Fry. 2000

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Locus of control as a mediator of the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction: Age, race, and gender differences (2006, background): “Many of the losses that accompany the aging process (such as loss of relationships, work productivity, and financial strain) are brought on by factors 242 Katherine L. Fiori et al. external to most older adults and over which they may feel they have little or no control (Fry, 2000).”
Outlining a Psychotherapy Model for Enhancing Muslim Mental Health Within an Islamic Context (2013, background): “…with stressful conditions to a larger extent than variables such as health status, social support, cognitive behavioral therapy–cognitive restructuring, perceived control and chance control (Fry, 2000; McCullough, Hoyt, Larson, Koenig, & Thoresen, 2000; Pargament et al., 2000; Tix & Frazier, 1998).”
Religiousness/Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Elderly Whites, African Americans, and Native Americans (2004, background): “There is also mounting evidence linking spirituality with positive well-being among older adults (Levin & Chatters, 1998; Fry, 2000; Fabricatore, Handal, & Fenzel, 2000).”
Meaning in Life as a Subjective Judgment and a Lived Experience (2009, background): “…note, religion has long been recognized as a central source of meaning in life, providing individuals with core beliefs, expectations, and goals, and placing the individual’s life into a larger, more ultimate context (Batson & Stocks, 2004; Emmons, 2005; Fletcher, 2004; Fry, 2000; Silberman, 2005).”
Three Ways to Be Happy: Pleasure, Engagement, and Meaning—Findings from Australian and US Samples (2009, background): “While the value of life meaning for well-being has been espoused for some time (e.g., Frankl 1963), scholars have only recently focused on its potential as a predictor of subjective well-being (e.g., Fry 2000 ) with some claiming it is a critical component of psychological well-being (Ryff and Sing”
Religion and Spirituality as Predictors of Well-Being Among Chinese American and Korean American Older Adults (2007, background): “As Fry (2000) asserted, findings of this study imply that existential measures of personal meaning, religiosity, and spirituality may contribute more significantly to well-being than do demographic variables or other traditional measures of social resources, physical health, or negative life events.”
Experiencing meaning in life: Optimal functioning at the nexus of well-being, psychopathology, and spirituality. (2012, background): “Zika & Chamberlain, 1987; Zika & Chamberlain, 1992), as well as among Chinese adults (Shek, 1995), Korean adolescents (Shin, Lee, & Lee, 2005), community and institutional-dwelling older adults (Fry, 2000; Reker, 2002), and bereaved older adults (Fry, 2001).”
Spiritual and religious competencies for psychologists. (2013, background): “Aging & Mental Health, 4, 375– 387. doi:10.1080/713649965 Fukuyama, M. A., & Sevig, T. D. (2002). Spirituality in counseling across cultures.”
Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life (2008, neutral): “Religion has long been recognized as a central source of meaning in life, providing individuals with core beliefs, expectations, and goals, and placing the individual’s life into a larger, more ultimate context (Batson & Stocks, 2004; Emmons, 2005; Fletcher, 2004; Fry, 2000).”
Psychological Health and Meaning in Life (2009, background): “There is evidence that existential factors like religion, spirituality, and meaning in life are important in coping with adversity in certain populations like Latinas/os (Ruiz, 2002) and older adults (Fry, 2000).”
Personal Meaning Orientations and Psychosocial Adaptation in Older Adults (2011, background): “, Reker & Chamberlain, 2000; Wong & Fry, 1998). Personal meaning is defined as the cognizance of order, coherence, and purpose in one’s existence, the pursuit and attainment of worthwhile goals, and the accompanying sense of fulfillment (Reker & Wong, 1988). A person high on personal meaning has a c”
The influence of religious coping on the mental health of disabled Iranian war veterans (2009, methodology): “…to the mental health of people with stressful conditions to a greater extent than other variables such as health status, social support, cognitive restructuring, perceived control, and chance control (e.g., Fry, 2000; McCullough et al., 2000; Pargament, Koenig, & Perez, 2000; Tix & Frazier, 1998).”
Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction in young Catholics and Protestants (2005, neutral): “…belief could promote well-being is by reducing fear of death (Aday, 1984–1985; Alvarado, Templer, Bresler, & Thomas-Dobson, 1995; Cicirelli, 1999, 2001, 2002; Fry, 2000; Ochsmann, 1984; Richardson, Berman, & Piwowarski, 1983; Swanson & Byrd, 1998; Thorson, 2000; Thorson & Powell, 1989, 2000).”