Religiosity, Religious Doubt, and the Need for Cognition: Their Interactive Relationship with Life Satisfaction

Gauthier, Kristopher J.; Christopher, Andrew N.; Walter, Mark I.; Mourad, Ronney; Marek, Pam

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“…However, other studies (e.g., Abdel-Khalek & Naceur, 2007) found that Muslim women had higher mean score on the Self-rating Scale of religiosity than their men counterparts. This is in line with what Gauthier, Christopher, Walter, Mourad, and Marek (2006) called an axiom of religious research whereby women tend to be more religious than men. With regard to why women were found to be more religious than men, Gauthier et al (2006) suggested three possible reasons: women are raised to be passive, placing more females into religiously oriented roles, and women's lack of social and economic power in some societies.…”

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confidence: 87%

Ways of coping and religious commitment in Muslim adolescents

Ismail

2015

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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The aim of this study was to find out methods of coping used most frequently by Kurdish adolescents and to investigate the relationship of methods of coping with their level of religiosity and gender. A convenience sample of 171 secondary school students, selfidentified as Muslims, took part in answering two sets of questionnaires: methods of coping and religious commitment. Means, standard deviations, t-test and Pearson Correlation Coefficients were used to analyse the data. Results of the study suggest that the method of coping used most frequently by the sample was spiritual connection while passivity and avoidance were the least used methods of coping. Religiosity was correlated with all other methods of coping except seeking social support and passivity. Girls used avoidance and passivity for coping more than boys did. Kurdish Muslim adolescents use various methods to cope with problems they face. Counsellors in secondary schools should pay more attention to maladaptive methods of coping particularly among girl adolescents.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Ways of coping and religious commitment in Muslim adolescents

Ismail

2015

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…Previous research has used various measures of positive well‐being (Ellison, Gay, and Glass 1989; Ellison 1991; Ferriss 2002; Barkan and Greenwood 2003; Greene and Yoon 2004; Gauthier et al 2006; Maselko and Kubzansky 2006; Witter et al 1985; Willits and Crider 1988). The literature makes a distinction between life satisfaction and happiness.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The association between religious attendance and happiness may be mediated by one's relationship with God. Previous research has indicated a link between religious participation and closeness to God (Ellison 1991), and other research has demonstrated a strong correlation between relationship with God and positive well‐being (Ellison, Gay, and Glass 1989; Ellison 1991; Francis and Kaldor 2002; Gauthier et al 2006; Maselko and Kubzansky 2006). As a whole, this literature suggests that religious attendance may influence happiness by way of the mediating variable of feeling closeness with God, perhaps because of feeling comfort or existential security (Pollner 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%

Religious Attendance and Happiness: Examining Gaps in the Current Literature-A Research Note

Childs¹

2010

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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Two major gaps exist in research examining the positive association between religious attendance and happiness. First, scholars have argued that this association may be because of people's perceived relationship with God or the social cohesion one experiences with other parishioners, but scholars have not studied both pathways simultaneously. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data (General Social Survey), I first examine the influence of one's perceived relationship with God and one's perceived social cohesion within the religious community on happiness. One's perceived relationship with God is more strongly associated with happiness than is social cohesion. Second, scholars overwhelmingly use religious attendance as the independent variable, with happiness as the dependent variable. Using two waves of data from a nationally representative panel study (National Survey of Families and Households), I then examine the relationship between religious attendance and happiness over time, finding that religious attendance has a greater effect on happiness than happiness has on religious attendance.

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“…Generally, it has been established that attending church (Levin and Chatters 1998;OkuliczKozaryn 2010;Strawbridge et al 2001), praying (Levin and Chatters), and/or self-reported religiosity (Gauthier et al 2006;Horning et al 2011;Levin and Chatters) positively predict subjective well-being. While these R/S constructs (attendance, prayer, and religiosity) are well represented within the existing literature, the field as a whole is far from monolithic in its outlook.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unbelievable?! Theistic/Epistemological Viewpoint Affects Religion–Health Relationship

Speed

2016

J Relig Health

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Research suggests that Religion/Spirituality promotes a variety of positive health outcomes. However, despite reporting lower levels of Religion/Spirituality, non-believers report comparable levels of health to believers. The current study tested the hypothesis that Religion/Spirituality does not have a uniform effect on health for all persons, and tested theological/epistemological categories as moderators. Using the 2012 and 2014 General Social Survey (N = 2670), the relationship between Religion/Spirituality and happiness and self-rated health was investigated. Results indicated that Gnostic Theists experienced Religion/Spirituality more positively than their peers did; Agnostic Theists experienced Religion/Spirituality less positively than their peers did; and Negative Atheists experienced Religion/Spirituality less positively than their peers did. These findings suggested that Religion/Spirituality is not associated with salutary effects for all persons, and that whether a person believes in god(s) and how confident he/she was in god(s)' existence, influenced his/her experience with Religion/Spirituality.

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Religiosity, Religious Doubt, and the Need for Cognition: Their Interactive Relationship with Life Satisfaction

Abstract: need for cognition, life satisfaction, religion, religious doubt,

Cited by 59 publications

References 24 publications

Ways of coping and religious commitment in Muslim adolescents

Ways of coping and religious commitment in Muslim adolescents

Religious Attendance and Happiness: Examining Gaps in the Current Literature-A Research Note

Unbelievable?! Theistic/Epistemological Viewpoint Affects Religion–Health Relationship

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