Religious involvement and mortality: a meta-analytic review.

By M. McCullough, William T. Hoyt, D. Larson, H. Koenig, C. Thoresen. Health Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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Religiosity, stress and psychological distress: no evidence for an association among undergraduate students (2003, neutral): “Furthermore in a recent meta-analysis, McCullough et al. (2000) examined the association between a measure of religious involvement and all-cause mortality.”
Conscientiousness and Health across the Life Course (2005, background): “Conscientiousness is also positively related to religiosity (MacDonald, 2000; Taylor & MacDonald, 1999), which, in turn, is associated with diminished substance abuse (Miller, Davis, & Greenwald, 2000) and increased longevity ( McCullough, Hoyt, Larson, Koenig, & Thoresen, 2000 ).”
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, background): “…self-control help to explain religion's well-established associations with measures of health, well-being, and social behavior, such as longevity (McCullough et al., 2000), depressive symptoms (Smith et al., 2003), marital functioning (Mahoney et al., 1999), crime and delinquency (Baier &…”
The relationships between subjective well-being, health, and religiosity among young adults from Qatar (2013, background): “A meta-analysis of over 40 independent samples has reported that religious involvement is significantly and positively associated with longevity (McCullough, Hoyt, Larson, Koenig, & Thoresen, 2000 ).”
TARGET ARTICLE: Stumbling Blocks on the Religious Road: Fractured Relationships, Nagging Vices, and the Inner Struggle to Believe (2002, positive): “Drawing on research on interpersonal forgiveness (for reviews, see McCullough et al., 2000; Worthington, 1998), we might suggest that people will feel less angry toward God if they do not believe that God caused the event, if theyviewGod’s intentionsaspositive,or if they can see some good outcome…”
A DECADE OF RESEARCH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND COPING: Things we assumed and lessons we learned (2007, positive): “Moreover, McCullough et al. (2000) examined whether potential mediating and confounding variables (demographics, health behaviors, social support) could explain the relationship between religiousness and mortality.”
Islamic religiosity, subjective well-being, and health (2009, background): “A strong inverse relationship with mortality is “well documented,” according to Williams and Sternthal ( 2007 ), although variations due to several moderators have been noticed (McCullough, Hoyt, Larson, Koenig, & Thoresen, 1990 ).”
Religiosity, Sense of Meaning, and Health Behavior in Older Adults (2010, background): “A wide range of positive health outcomes have been linked to religious involvement, including lower rates of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, certain types of cancer ( Miller & Thoresen, 2003 ), healthier immune systems ( Lutgendorf, Russell, Ullrich, Harris, & Wallace, 2004 ), shorter hospital”