The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Mental and Physical Health

Seybold, Kevin S.; Hill, Peter C.

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“…Spirituality and religiosity have been positively associated with physical and mental health Oman and Thoresen 2005;Seybold and Hill 2001). Substantial variability exists in findings across studies, however, pointing to the importance of examining how different aspects of religious experience relate to specific health outcomes (Hackney and Sanders 2003).…”

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“…Substantial variability exists in findings across studies, however, pointing to the importance of examining how different aspects of religious experience relate to specific health outcomes (Hackney and Sanders 2003). One recurring question is whether spirituality and religiosity have distinct associations with health (Seybold and Hill 2001).…”

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The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma: a national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks

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“…It correlated significantly with "Communication", "Peers", and "Decency" before the training, but not after. This might indicate participants' problem-solving approach involved interacting with others before the training, but not after the training (Seybold & Hill, 2001). Finally, McCullough and Willoughby (2009) argued that self-regulation and -monitoring should be underlying variables that elicit positive changes, including various coping strategies.…”

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The Effect of Religion on the Human Mind: Analyses of Language Use and Personality

Kim

Jang

Park

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PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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Previous research has shown that being religious is beneficial in various ways. Though religion's benefits are well-studied, few investigations have provided quantitative and explorative perspectives on its effects. Most studies concern religion's influence on specific psychological aspects of the human mind. This study investigated whether people's language use reflects the effects of religious training. We analyzed writing samples from 12 new believers in the Catholic Church via a language analysis program and conducted relevant psychological tests. The results showed language patterns changed significantly with religious training, even though these changes did not show any correlations with the psychological scales. These results indicate that religiosity can be reflected in certain language behaviors. Moreover, the results suggest language usage can be a reliable and sensitive index for measuring religiosity. Key words: religiosity, language uses, KLIWC, KoreanThe positive effects of religiosity have been well characterized by previous studies. Typical findings have included a positive association between religiosity and subjective well-being (Chamberlain & Zika, 1988;Delbridge, Headey, & Wearing, 1994;Willits & Crider, 1988), healthy lifestyles (Cochran, 1992;Wallace Jr & Forman, 1998), and improvements in mental health (Regnerus & Smith, 2005;Smith & Faris, 2005).Researchers have proposed several possible mechanisms whereby religion might bring about these beneficial effects. Fredrickson (2002) argued that religion induces people to attribute greater value to ordinary life events and, in so doing, engenders positive emotions, such as gratitude, hope, joy, and serenity. This view emphasized the resulting positive emotions' roles in subjective well-being. On the other hand, Ardelt (2003) argued that religion provides a sense of meaning for life, on a comprehensive level, and the sense of having a purposeful life is more important than emotional stability is. Finally, Spilka and McIntosh (1997) argued that religion enables people to acquire a sense of ultimate control over life, obtainable through prayer or gratitude. Moreover, according to Stromberg (1990), a created sense of self-transformation through the conversion experience brings about such changes.

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“…According to Seybold and Hill (2001), the results of prior studies illustrated positive results such as psychological and physical health; marital satisfaction and safety and positive interpersonal performance can be the result of spiritual beliefs, practices and commitments and this also can improve the quality of life. Emmoms (2000) believes that these positive results may be due to the fact that having spiritual orientation about life saves humans against non-pleasant and non-adaptive behaviors such as behaving in socially or personally destructive ways.…”

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The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Vocabulary Learning Strategies in EFL Learners

Azizi¹,

Zamaniyan²

2013

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Abstract-Spiritual intelligent or spiritual quotient refers to people's capacity to express, manifest, and represent spiritual resources, values, and properties to improve every day performance. Vocabulary learning strategies relates to any group of procedures which language learners apply to find the meaning of a new word, to keep in mind the knowledge of newly-learned word, and to develop one's vocabulary .This paper investigates the relationship between EFL learners' spiritual intelligence (SI) and their use of vocabulary learning strategies. The aim of the study was to determine how these two constructs correlate with each other. To this end, 120 EFL students from Public University of Shiraz and Islamic Azad University of Shiraz took part in vocabulary learning strategy questionnaire (Schmitt's, 2001) and the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (King, 2008) questionnaires. The obtained results indicated a statistically significant relationship between SI and vocabulary learning strategies. The results of multiple regressions showed that there was a significant correlation between all SI subscales and metacognitive strategies and social strategies. The results also showed that males with their higher scores in vocabulary learning strategies usage and are significantly superior to females. Also females are superior to males and they have higher spiritual intelligence scores.

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The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Mental and Physical Health

Cited by 375 publications

References 9 publications

The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma: a national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks

The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma: a national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks

The Effect of Religion on the Human Mind: Analyses of Language Use and Personality

The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Vocabulary Learning Strategies in EFL Learners

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