Happiness, health, and religiosity: Significant relations

By A. Abdel-Khalek. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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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).”
The association between religiosity, generalized self-efficacy, mental health, and happiness in Arab college students (2017, methodology): “This result is in conflict with previous findings from another Kuwaiti sample (Abdel-Khalek, 2006a), as well as from other studies (Spilka et al., 2003, p. 154; Sullins, 2006), in which women obtained significantly higher mean scores than did theirmale counterparts.”
Religion and happiness: Consensus, contradictions, comments and concerns (2006, background): “Abdel-Khalek, A. M., & Nacuer, F. (2006) Religiosity and its association with positive and negative”
The relationships between subjective well-being, health, and religiosity among young adults from Qatar (2013, background): “Criterion-related validity of these scales have been adequately demonstrated (Abdel-Khalek, 2003, 2006b, 2007a, 2011a).”
Religiosity, happiness, health, and psychopathology in a probability sample of Muslim adolescents (2007, methodology): “Recently, Abdel-Khalek (2006a), using a sample of 2,210 Kuwaiti Muslim college students, found significant positive correlations between the self-rating-scales of happiness, physical health, mental health, and religiosity.”
Islamic religiosity, subjective well-being, and health (2009, background): “For example, Ardelt (2003) found that purpose in life, rather than extrinsic or intrinsic religious orientation, was positively related to elders’ SWB. Others have suggested that religiosity is a protective factor against loss of SWB (e.g., Ellison & Levin, 1998) in that it provides an interpretive ”
Religiosity and its association with positive and negative emotions among college students from Algeria (2007, result): “Meanwhile, the current results are compatible with both a study conducted on Pakistani Muslims (Suhail & Chaudhry, 2004) and a recent study carried out on a large sample of Kuwaiti college students (Abdel-Khalek, 2006), in which women had a significantly higher religiosity mean score than their men ”
Empirically based psychology of Islam: summary and critique of the literature (2011, background): “‘‘How important is religion for you?’’) to measure religiousness among Muslims (Abdel-Khalek, 2002; Abdel-Khalek, 2006; Abdel-Khalek, 2007a; Abdel-Khalek, 2007b; Abdel-Khalek, 2008; Abdel-Khalek, 2009; Abdel-Khalek & Lester, 2007; Abdel-Khalek & Naceur, 2007; Abdel-Khalek & Thorson, 2006;…”
Religious coping, stress, and quality of life of Muslim university students in New Zealand (2014, background): “…students in Algeria (Abdel-Khalek & Naceur, 2007), Egypt (Abdel-Khalek, 2012), Iran (Sahraian, Gholami, Javadpour, & Omidvar, 2013), Kuwait (Abdel-Khalek, 2006, 2010a, 2010b) and Qatar (Abdel-Khalek, 2013), for example, religiosity is positively correlated with a variety of indices of…”
Religion, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality (2015, background): “…from research conducted in the United States, whereas studies based on samples outside of the United States are considerably less numerous (see Abdel-Khalek, 2006, 2013, 2014 for Arab countries; Thege, Pilling, Székely, & Kopp, 2013 for Hungary; and Maltby et al., 2010 for the United…”
Associations between religiosity, mental health, and subjective well-being among Arabic samples from Egypt and Kuwait (2012, background): “A specific number of researches published in English recruited participants from Algeria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia (Abdel-Khalek, 2006a, 2007c, 2008, 2009a, 2010a; 2010b; Abdel-Khalek & Lester, 2007; Abdel-Khalek & Naceur, 2007; Al-Kandari, 2003; Baroun, 2006; Tiliouine, Cummins, & Davern, 2009).”