This paper provides a concise but comprehensive review of research on religion/spirituality
(R/S) and both mental health and physical health. It is based on a systematic review of …

Research in the field of “Spirituality and Health” has been growing, with spirituality/
religiousness (S/R) being consistently related to both physical and mental health. The …

The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the longitudinal positive effect of
religion or spirituality (R/S) on mental health. We summarized 48 longitudinal studies (59 …

Positive religious co** has frequently been associated with better mental health outcomes
when dealing with stressful life events (eg, natural disasters, domestic abuse, divorce). The …

Religion and spirituality (R/S) are important aspects of human diversity that should be
explicitly addressed in the field of psychology. The field has already included R/S in its …

In contrast to traditional perspectives of resilience as a stable, trait-like characteristic,
resilience is now recognized as a multidimentional, dynamic capacity influenced by life-long …

This chapter was prepared when all authors were at Columbia University's Teachers
College; Luthar and Small are currently at Arizona State University. The authors gratefully …

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

Depressive symptoms and religious/spiritual (R/S) practices are widespread around the
world, but their intersection has received relatively little attention from mainstream mental …

Background In the last three decades, there has been increased interest in studying the
association between religion/spirituality (R/S), and mental health and functional outcomes …