Handbook of Religion and Health

By S. Charles. 2001

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Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments (2011, background): “A considerable number of quantitative studies have so far found religious/spiritual variables to be modestly but meaningfully associated with mental or even physical health and psychosocial adjustment [2,4,5].”
Religiosity and life satisfaction across nations (2010, background): “The most comprehensive review of the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction1 is Koenig, McCullough, and Larson (2001).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “Among other protective factors, such as education and nationality, endorsing a religion or spirituality has been modestly but consistently associated with higher well-being (Koenig 2012; Koenig et al. 2012).”
Faith versus practice: different bases for religiosity judgments by Jews and Protestants (2003, methodology): “With this type of operational definition, spirituality as being used here may be similar to measures used by other researchers of moored spirituality (Koenig et al., 2001) and intrinsic religiosity (Allport & Ross, 1967).”
Six domains of self-care: Attending to the whole person (2019, background): “Koenig, McCullough, and Larson (2001) found that engaging in what are described as forms of spiritual practice (e.g., meditation, prayer, drumming, or other practices) can reduce stress, buffer the impact of working with trauma, and enhance overall well-being.”
Religiosity, self-control, and antisocial behavior: Religiosity as a promotive and protective factor (2011, background): “Others have reported higher female religiosity (Koenig et al., 2001; Marks, 2005;Milot& Ludden, 2009), but thefinding thatmothers of boys reported lower importance of religion than mothers of girls warrants further attention and replication.”
Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Religious Identity (2013, background): “E-mail: christopher.ellison@utsa.edu 214 psychosocial outcomes, such as lower levels of depression and anxiety, and elevated levels of life satisfaction and happiness (George, Ellison, & Larson, 2002; Koenig, 2009, 2011; Smith, McCullough, & Poll, 2003).”
The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, Refinement, and Validation of a Brief Scale for Research and Counseling. (2003, background): “" Those two types of spirituality were suggested by Martin Marty (cited in Koenig et al., 2001).”
Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A Two-year Longitudinal Study (2004, background): “With some important exceptions, the research on religion and health has relied on cross-sectional designs which can address neither the longerterm implications of religious coping for health nor the issue of whether religiousness, in fact, impacts health outcomes (Koenig et al., 2001).”
Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “There is of course substantial correlational evidence that R/Sp, constructs themselves theorized as components of positive psychology (Mattis, 2004 ; Pargament & Mahoney, 2002 ), are linked with positivity in life, well-being, happiness, and specific positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2002 ; Koenig”
The relationships between subjective well-being, health, and religiosity among young adults from Qatar (2013, background): “Well-being is the positive side of mental health, and health is the strongest predictor of well-being in both younger and older populations (Koenig et al., 2001, p. 97f).”
The association between religiosity, generalized self-efficacy, mental health, and happiness in Arab college students (2017, background): “This result adds evidence to themain thesis thatmental is associated with the positive traits of self-efficacy, religiosity, and happiness, and this result is consistent with research results from other societies and cultures (see: e.g., Koenig et al., 2012).”
Senior Adults' Perceptions of Successful Aging (2006, background): “Results indicate that religious involvement is related to greater well-being, increased life satisfaction, reduced anxiety, and lower rates of substance abuse (Koenig, McCullough, & Larson, 2000 ).”
Spiritual care and psychiatric treatment: an introduction (2002, background): “In spite of acknowledged problems, the authors of the authoritative Handbook of Religion and Health (Koenig et al, 2001) have conducted a critical, systematic and comprehensive analysis of empirical research, examining the relationships between religion and a variety of mental and physical health…”
Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion? (2010, background): “…and research has highlighted the salutary implications of religiousness and spirituality for mental and physical health (Ellison and Levin 1998; Koenig et al. 2001; Smith et al. 2003), a smaller literature has reported on the potential ‘‘dark side’’ of the religion-health connection (Pargament…”