Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries

Stavrova, Olga; Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Schlösser, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.07.002

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“…Consequently, their SWB will be promoted. Our findings indicate that altruistic behaviour can improve SWB not only in face-to-face situations but also in cyberspace, which expands upon previous studies on the association between altruism and SWB (James, 2011;Oarga el al., 2015;Stavrova, Fetchenhauer, & Schlösser, 2013). Furthermore, the results of bivariate correlations suggest that self-concordance is positively correlated with SWB, which is in line with the results from previous research on the relation between self-concordance and SWB (Chirkov, Ryan, Kim, & Kaplan, 2003;Kelly et al, 2015;Koletzko, Herrmann, & Brandstätter, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Mediating Role of Self-Concordance on the Relationship Between Internet Altruistic Behaviour and Subjective Wellbeing

Zheng

Xie

Ding

2018

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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T he aim of the present study was to examine the mediating effect of self-concordance on the relationship between internet altruistic behaviour (IAB) and subjective wellbeing (SWB). A total of 356 Chinese university students (159 males and 197 females) participated, using the questionnaires in the Internet Altruistic Behavior Scale (IABS), the Self-Concordance Scale (SCS) and the General Well-Being Schedule (GWBS). Correlation results indicated that IAB was positively correlated with self-concordance and SWB. The hierarchical regression analyses indicated that both IAB and self-concordance positively affect SWB. Moreover, IAB affected SWB indirectly via self-concordance, which confirmed selfconcordance partially mediated the relationship between IAB and SWB. These findings extend the previous research on the association between altruism and SWB.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Mediating Role of Self-Concordance on the Relationship Between Internet Altruistic Behaviour and Subjective Wellbeing

Zheng

Xie

Ding

2018

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…Macro forces influence religious beliefs and practices, gender beliefs and practices, and other attitudes and behaviors in important ways (Adamczyk and Hayes 2012;Adamczyk and Pitt 2009;Charles 2011;Gerhards et al 2009;Rizzo et al 2007;Stavrova et al 2013). State-level research in the United States has shown that the more religious fundamentalism in a state, the more conservative the individual gender attitudes of people who live in that state, even apart from the individual's own religiosity (Moore and Vanneman 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

Schnabel

2015

Soc Indic Res

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Does religion help or hinder gender equality worldwide? Are some major world religions more conducive to equality than others? This study answers these questions using country-level data assembled from multiple sources. Much of the research on religion and gender has focused on the relationship between individual religious belief and practice and gender attitudes. This study, alternatively, compares the macro effects of the proportion of religious adherents in a country on two indicators of material gender equality: the United Nations Gender Inequality Index and the Social Watch Gender Equity Index. Comparing the world's four largest religious groups reveals that the largest distinction is not between any of the three largest faiths-Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism-but between the religious and the non-religious. The more non-religious people in a country, the more gender equal that country tends to be. This finding holds when accounting for human development and other country-level factors, as well as in instrumental variable analysis.

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“…In this category, empirical research deal with effects impacting students during college life (Mayrl-Uecker 2011) and citizen participation (Kim-Wilcox 2013), while theoretical works examine other topics, like publicity (Köhrsen 2013), existential meaningmaking (la Cour-Hvidt 2010), religious reflexivity and cosmopolitan ethics (Speck 2013), moreover social sciences and knowledge creation (Seth 2013). Seth's topic can be placed in a dewesternizing-decolonizing narrative within the philosophy of sciences, the narrative being present there at least since Edward Said's critique on orientalism.…”

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Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles

Tóth¹

2017

KOME

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Abstract:In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization, Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence, and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.

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Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries

Cited by 240 publications

References 78 publications

Mediating Role of Self-Concordance on the Relationship Between Internet Altruistic Behaviour and Subjective Wellbeing

Mediating Role of Self-Concordance on the Relationship Between Internet Altruistic Behaviour and Subjective Wellbeing

Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis

Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles

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