Religious and non-religious predictors of life satisfaction in a sample of American college students

Chesser, Svetlana; Swanson, Sally B.; Garey, Evans; Hood, Ralph W.

doi:10.1080/13674676.2018.1504905

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“…Although most studies identified a linear relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction, one viewpoint that can be proposed here is that religiosity does not affect human life satisfaction as a single factor (this must be in conjunction with other factors). However, in some cases, religiosity, in conjunction with other factors, affects the life satisfaction of religious adherents (Chesser et al 2018), including Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists. 2018).…”

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The effect of religiosity on life satisfaction: A meta-analysis

Sholihin

Hardivizon

Wanto

et al. 2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This article intends to synthesise the results of various studies related to the influence of religiosity on life satisfaction, with the aim of mapping how religiosity variables influence people’s life satisfaction in multiple countries. Additionally, this study seeks to identify the development of research issues regarding religiosity and life satisfaction. For this reason, a meta-analysis approach was applied to synthesise 21 articles quantitatively, and the systematic literature review (SLR) approach was used to narrate the development of issues concerning religiosity and life satisfaction in 40 articles. In general, this study succeeds in demonstrating that the influence of the religiosity variable on life satisfaction in various study samples is linear and has a positive effect.Contribution: The dimensions of religiosity and life satisfaction are still very limited to the characteristics of disciplines attached to researchers. This resulted in the dimension being repeatedly used (redundancy) in various studies, resulting in the second dimension of the issue (i.e., religiosity and life satisfaction) being less developed. Therefore, it contributes to the issues as a foundation of new directions, i.e., emic perspectives, in understanding the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction.

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The effect of religiosity on life satisfaction: A meta-analysis

Sholihin

Hardivizon

Wanto

et al. 2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…In contrast, other studies among students have found no such associations (Thao, 2020) or a positive impact of religiosity on mental health but negative on physical health (Kioulos et al, 2015). Similarly, studies of medical students have suggested positive associations between religiosity, life satisfaction and positive affect (Chesser et al, 2018;Machado et al, 2018), as well as psychological well-being (Abdel-Khalek & Tekke, 2019;Saleem & Saleem, 2017), but others have found these associations not to be significant (Dlugosz et al, 2022;Oteri, 2018).…”

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Health Professions Students' Mental Well-Being and Perceived Health - Тhe Impact of Optimism, Resilience, Religiosity and Stress

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2023

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The study explored the impact of optimism, resilience and religiosity on the mental well-being and perceived health as well as their role in the perceived stress and mental well-being relation in health professions’ students. The study was carried out online with a total of 123 students in medicine, nursing, assistant-pharmacists and social workers. Analyses suggest that optimism and resilience were associated with the stress appraisal as less intensive, less threatening and more controllable. Religiosity was not associated with perceived stress. The mental well-being was predicted positively by optimism, resilience and religiosity and negatively by stress, but perceived health – only by stress. Resilience enhanced mental well-being both directly and indirectly through the perceived stress (partial mediator). Optimism acted as a moderator of stress and mental well-being relationship. Optimism, resilience and religiosity contribute to high levels of students' positive functioning in the mental health domain, but not in physical health domain as far as the subjective general physical health is concerned. Positive impact of optimism and resilience on psychological functioning is related to their associations with favorable stress appraisals and the buffering effect of optimism on stress. The positive influence of subjective level of religiosity on mental well-being is unrelated to how stress is perceived. Stress management programs as well as appropriate interventions and educational approaches to enhance resilience could be offered to health professions’ students.

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A Meta-Analysis of Life Satisfaction’s Association with Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression: The Influences of Age, Gender, and Cultural Values

Wu,

et al. 2024

J Happiness Stud

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Religious and non-religious predictors of life satisfaction in a sample of American college students

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

The effect of religiosity on life satisfaction: A meta-analysis

The effect of religiosity on life satisfaction: A meta-analysis

Health Professions Students' Mental Well-Being and Perceived Health - Тhe Impact of Optimism, Resilience, Religiosity and Stress

A Meta-Analysis of Life Satisfaction’s Association with Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression: The Influences of Age, Gender, and Cultural Values

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