Religion and mental health among Hindu young people in England

Religion, Human Rights and Matters of Life and Death: Exploring Attitude Toward Abortion and Euthanasia Among Adolescents in England and Wales

“…Eysenck's dimensional model of personality proposes three higher order factors defined as extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism. Empirical studies within the psychology of religion employing this model of personality have consistently shown an inverse association between psychoticism scores and religiosity, as crystalised by Francis (1992) and confirmed by more recent studies, including Francis, Robbins, ap Sion, Lewis, and Barnes (2007), Francis, Robbins, Santosh, and Bhanot (2008), and Francis and Hermans (2009).…”

Religion/spirituality and quality of life of international tertiary students in New Zealand: an exploratory study

“…The fewer studies that did regard younger age groups, however, generally replicated the positive effects of religion/spirituality. Francis, Robbins, Santosh, and Bhanot (2008), for example, found that religiosity in Hindus aged between 12 and 35 and living in the United Kingdom was associated with lower levels of psychoticism, but unrelated to neuroticism. In addition to the mental-health benefits, religious activities have also been linked to improved general physical health.…”

The relationship between psychological health and attitude toward theistic faith: An empirical enquiry among 13- to 15-year-old students

“…Four of the five studies, reported by Francis, Lewis, and Ng (2003), Francis and Burton (2007), Francis, Robbins, ap Siôn, Lewis, and Barnes (2007), and Francis and Hermans (2009), proposed adopting the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis, 1989; as providing an economical and elegant indicator of attachment to the Christian tradition. The fifth study, reported by Francis, Robbins, Santosh, and Bhanot (2008), employed a related instrument, the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism (Francis, Santosh, Robbins, & Vij, 2008). According to Francis's theory underpinning the development of these measures (Kay & Francis, 1996), the attitudinal dimension of religion (concerned with religious affect) gets closer to the heart of the individual's religion than either the cognitive dimension (concerned with religious beliefs) or the behavioral dimension (concerned with religious practices).…”

“…Exploring the association between psychological health and religiosity within the context of the Hindu-faith tradition, Francis, Robbins, Santosh, and Bhanot (2008) administered the abbreviated form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Francis, Brown, & Philipchalk, 1992) alongside the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism to 330 young people attending the Hindu Youth Festival in London. Results of this study indicated that positive attitude toward Hinduism is associated with higher levels of psychological health (in terms of low psychoticism scores), and that among young people within the Hindu community there is no evidence to suggest a connection between poorer levels of psychological health (in terms of either neuroticism scores or psychoticism scores) and higher religiosity.…”