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

Abstract

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.

Enhancing Employees’ Motivation to Learn and Motivation to Transfer: Does Religiosity Play Any Role?

“…In addition, previous studies reveal that when employees show commitment to the empirical and theoretical fundamentals of the religion (religiosity), they demonstrated positive feeling and attitude such as life satisfaction (Sholihin, Hardivizon, Wanto, & Saputra, 2022), job satisfaction (Achour et al, 2015;Tiliouine & Belgoumidi, 2009), higher well-being (Hoogeveen et al, 2022, less anxiety (Abdel-Khalek, 2010) and stress (Kandaswamy, 2007). Moreover, researchers have continuously argue that employee characteristic to have an influence on motivation to transfer (Cheng & Hampson, 2008;Gegenfurtner et al, 2009b) and motivation to learn (Ayres, 2005;Mathieu & Martineau, 1997).…”

“…To date, no study has been identified to address such relationships, particularly on the effect of religiosity on motivation to transfer and motivation to learn. Most of previous studies have focused on examining the impact of religiosity on another aspect of human resources such as job performance (Osman-Gani, Hashim, & Ismail, 2013), work values (Yeganeh, 2015), employees' well being (Achour & Boerhannoeddin, 2011), commitment (Imran, Abdul Hamid, & Aziz, 2017), organizational citizenship behavior (Darto, Setyadi, Riadi, & Hariyadi, 2015) and life satisfaction (Sholihin, Hardivizon, Wanto, & Saputra, 2022).…”

Athletes’ religiosity: How it plays a role in athletes’ anxiety and life satisfaction

“…This is not surprising because religiosity is a difficult term to be defined (Gill, Minton & Myers 2010). Sholihin et al (2022) stated that this happens because the definition given will tend to depend on the assumptions that it is according to the religious perspective adopted. That is the reason why there are several different views commonly known.…”

“…Individuals who are considered satisfied with life feel happiness and a sense of well-being. Correspondingly, Sholihin et al (2022) stated that individual life satisfaction can be described as the feeling of happiness possessed by individuals when they achieve the desired level of well-being. Maksum and Indahwati (2021) mentioned that the variable 'life satisfaction' refers to the extent to which individuals feel happy and free from the pressures of life that cannot be controlled.…”

“…Studies conducted in Indonesia showed that individuals who regularly did physical activity had a better ability to manage stress and had higher life happiness compared with the inactive group (Maksum 2021;Maksum & Indahwati 2021). Meta-analysis studies regarding religiosity and life satisfaction found that religiosity variables have a positive correlation with life satisfaction (Sholihin et al 2022). However, there is no study that explores the correction of religiosity, anxiety and life satisfaction in the context of the sport.…”