Religion, Health, and Psychological Well-Being

Green, Morgan; Elliott, Marta

doi:10.1007/s10943-009-9242-1

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“…The link between faith and resilience was demonstrated in our participants' narratives on numerous occasions while speaking about experiences of loss, illness, and separation from the family-for a long or short time and various reasons. This link has also been shown by several other studies [53][54][55] which underline the positive role of faith in coping with life events and stressors. It was clear from the participants' accounts that faith provided them with a framework of meaning and helped them to make sense of their situation regardless of the size, scale, or level of difficulty they faced in their everyday lives:…”

Section: Dealing With Separation and Partingsupporting

confidence: 80%

Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Ögtem-Young

2018

Societies

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Abstract:The concept of resilience continues to be popular within various discourses and disciplines across the social and natural sciences, and has also been adopted politically and in policy. The concept's extended and widening usage in ever-increasing contexts creates further complexities and contestation on what construes resilience. Generally, in these conceptualisations, resilience is a positive outcome following significant crisis and disaster at an extreme scale. However, such definitions and constructs ignore that resilience manifests itself in subtler and more mundane ways in people's daily life and daily activities. This article explores how resilience is built into everyday life and how faith is used as a tool of resilience by individuals from diverse communities in their daily experiences in the city of Birmingham. This article contributes to the resilience literature by exposing examples of resilience as narrated during our in-depth interviews with participants (comprised of members from various new and established migrant ethnic communities), with particular attention given to faith as a form of resilience. This article argues that resilience manifests itself in the day-to-day experiences and practices of individuals and that faith can play an important role in individuals' lives in overcoming and coping with the challenges of their daily stressors.

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Section: Dealing With Separation and Partingsupporting

confidence: 80%

Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Ögtem-Young

2018

Societies

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“…Similar findings were reported by Meraviglia (2004), he showed that higher meaning in life scores was associated with higher psychological well-being and lower symptom distress scores and also higher prayer scores were associated with higher psychological well-being scores. Green and Elliott (2009) believed that religious identity has positive association with physical health and well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Koenig et al (2000) have found out a significant positive relationship between religious orientation and well-being. Green and Elliott (2009) indicated that religious identity is positively associated with physical health and well-being whereas liberal religious beliefs are positively associated with physical health and negatively associated with happiness, and they also suggested that religious activities only improve health or well-being among people who identify as religious persons. In a study, Ardelt (2003) showed that purpose in life rather than extrinsic or intrinsic religious orientation was positively related to elders' subjective well-being and negatively associated with fear of death and death avoidance.…”

Section: Religiosity and Psychological Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relationship Between Islamic Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being

Tamini¹,

Fadaei²

2011

JPR

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The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between Islamic beliefs and psychological well-being among students from University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. The sample size of this research consists of 300 undergraduate students (148 males and 152 females) that were selected at random and asked to complete the psychological well-being and Islamic beliefs questionnaires. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between Islamic beliefs and satisfaction with life, spirituality, happiness and optimism, personal growth, and total scores of well-being. But Islamic beliefs had a significant negative correlation with positive relationship with others. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient did not illustrate any significant correlation between Islamic beliefs and autonomy. The results of stepwise regression revealed that positive relationship with others accounted for 10.6% and made the largest unique contribution, satisfaction with life accounted for 10.3%, total scores of well-being accounted for 8.3%, spirituality accounted for 7.6%, happiness and optimism accounted for 6.3%, and eventually personal growth accounted for 3.3% of variance in Islamic beliefs of students. There was a significant difference between males and females on scores of satisfaction with life spirituality, happiness and optimism and total scores of well-being, male students obtained higher mean scores than female students, but female students showed higher mean scores than their male counterparts on positive relationship with the above-mentioned issues, and eventually the results did not indicate any significant differences between the two groups on personal growth and autonomy. The results showed that male students had higher mean scores than female students on Islamic believes.

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“…Some of these variables included social competence (Holopainen, Lappalainen, Junttila, & Savolainen, 2012), self-respect, self-confidence (Sandhu, Singh, Tung, & Kundra, 2012), personality traits such as neuroticism, extroversion and openness (Kokko, Tolvanen & Pulkkinen, 2013), emotional intelligence (James, Bore, & Zito, 2012), social network (Park, Song, & Lee, 2014), optimism (Souri & Hasanirad, 2011), religion and religiousness (Green & Elliott, 2010;Unterrainer, Ladenhauf, Moazedi, Wallner-Liebmann, & Fink, 2010), employment, level of education, marriage, age and gender (Khumalo, Temane, & Wissing, 2012), and physical health (Shields & Price, 2005). In addition to these variables, the social support perceived from different sources was noticed to be efficient upon psychological well-being of individuals (Brough & Pears, 2004;Daniels & Guppy, 1997;Du, Li, Chi, Zhao, & Zhao, 2015;Silverstein, Chen, & Heller, 1996).…”

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Perceived Social Support and Assertiveness as a Predictor of Candidates Psychological Counselors’ Psychological Well-Being

Ateş¹

2016

IES

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In this research, to what extent the variables of perceived social support (family, friends and special people) and assertiveness predicted the psychological well-being levels of candidate psychological counselors. The research group of this study included totally randomly selected 308 candidate psychological counselors including 174 females (56.5%) and 134 males (43.5%) studying at Erzincan University, Faculty of Education, Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department in 2015-2016 academic year. The age average of the research group was 20.84. Psychological Well-Being Scale, Voltan-Acar Assertiveness Scale, Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, and Personal Information Form were used as the data collection tools in the research. The data obtained in the research were analyzed with stepwise regression analysis method as one of the multiple linear regression analyses methods. According to the research findings, the variables of assertiveness and social support perceived from family, friends and special people significantly predicted psychological well-being.

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Religion, Health, and Psychological Well-Being

Cited by 198 publications

References 48 publications

Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Relationship Between Islamic Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being

Perceived Social Support and Assertiveness as a Predictor of Candidates Psychological Counselors’ Psychological Well-Being

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