Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: Implications for physical and mental health research.

By Peter C. Hill, K. Pargament. 2008

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Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. K. Pargament
2. C. Ellison
3. H. Koenig
4. J. Fisher
5. A. Mahoney
6. D. Rosmarin
7. M. Bradshaw
8. P. Handal

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Ellison
2. K. Pargament
3. H. Koenig
4. A. Mahoney
5. D. Rosmarin
6. P. Handal
7. Corine Hyman
8. M. Bradshaw

Citations in the corpus

• The Brief RCOPE: Current psychometric status of a short measure of religious coping. (2011, neutral): “Traditionally, religion has been assessed in one of two ways [9].”
• Attachment to God, Stressful Life Events, and Changes in Psychological Distress (2012, background): “Studies in this area have identified a number of relevant religious and spiritual domains, including organizational participation, congregational support systems, spiritual coping practices, religious motivations, and others (Hill and Pargament 2008; Idler et al. 2003; Krause 2008).”
• Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM (2010, background): “Although there are commonalities between these two constructs, many authors agree they are not synonymous [6-8,13-18].”
• Concerns About Measuring “Spirituality” in Research (2008, background): “Since no uniform definition of spirituality exists (Hill and Pargament, 2003), it is not surprising that many different questions and instruments are used to assess this construct.”
• The role of religiousness in anxiety, depression, and happiness in a Jewish community sample: A preliminary investigation (2009, background): “However, religious constructs have typically been measured by global indices, and so the reasons why religious constructs relate to mental health are often obscure (Hill & Pargament, 2003).”
• Examining the relation of religion and spirituality to subjective well-being across national cultures. (2013, background): “Despite their limited scope, such behavioral indices showed consistent positive associations with both psychological and physical well-being (Hill & Pargament, 2008).”
• Definitions and Evaluation of Religion and Spirituality Items by Religious Professionals: A Pilot Study (2006, positive): “Researchers have even speculated that current measures of spirituality may be old wine in new wineskins (Hill & Pargament, 2003).”
• Who Benefits from Religion? (2011, background): “Thus while we found a strong relationship between our measures of religiosity and well-being, both are multi-dimensional constructs (Diener et al. 2003; Diener et al. 1999; Hill and Pargament 2003; Kendler et al. 2003), and their relationship cannot be fully captured by a bivariate relationship (Par”