Although it has been hypothesized that culture and religion play an important role in sexuality, the relative roles of acculturation and religiosity on ethnic differences in sexual attitudes have not been often empirically explored. The present study assessed differences in sexual attitudes in Euro-American, Asian, and Hispanic American populations using measures of acculturation to analyze the...

This chapter explores cultural and individual religious roots of adolescents' family orientation on the basis of multilevel analyses with data from 17 cul­ tural groups. Religion and the family are seen as intertwined social insti­ tutions. The family as a source of social support has been identified as an important mediator of the effects of religiosity on adolescent developmental outcomes. Th...

his study aims at religiosity and happiness and their relation among the students of kerman islamic azad university in 2009- 2010.in this survey 200 girl students out of 5440 students of kerman islamic azad university were selected randomly. the study is based on the correlation research methodology. this survey in cludes question tools are religiosity test (sadeghi 2008) and happiness test (ox...

A well-replicated finding in the psychological literature is the negative correlation between religiosity and intelligence. However, several studies also conclude that one form of religiosity, church attendance, is protective against later-life cognitive decline. No effects of religious belief per se on cognitive decline have been found, potentially due to the restricted measures of belief used...

Religiosity is a powerful force shaping human societies, affecting domains as diverse as economic growth or the ability to cope with illness. As more religious leaders and organizations as well as believers start using social networking sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), online activities become important extensions to traditional religious rituals and practices. However, there has been lack of r...

abstract introduction: the religious belief and practices are preventing of social ‎deviation, unmoral behavior and social anomy have direct or non direct ‎impact on individuals. therefore the following research intents to ‎investigation the role of religiosity in family pathology. ‎ methods: the research method was descriptive and in this research, 882 ‎subjects of tehran were studied. the dat...

We examine empirical evidence for religious prosociality, the hypothesis that religions facilitate costly behaviors that benefit other people. Although sociological surveys reveal an association between self-reports of religiosity and prosociality, experiments measuring religiosity and actual prosocial behavior suggest that this association emerges primarily in contexts where reputational conce...

Recent research has indicated a negative relation between the propensity for analytic reasoning and religious beliefs and practices. Here, we propose conflict detection as a mechanism underlying this relation, on the basis of the hypothesis that more-analytic people are less religious, in part, because they are more sensitive to conflicts between immaterial religious beliefs and beliefs about t...

Objective The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between religiosity, depression and pain in advanced cancer patients admitted in hospice. Methods 115 patients with a life expectancy of less than 4 months were interviewed with a series of standardized instruments, including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and religious data wer...

Religiosity and spirituality have been long investigated for their positive or negative effects on mental health, with mixed results. The author examines different associations and study methodologies, and describes criticism of the findings. Then, religious coping is explored and recent research on the inclusion of religious elements within therapeutical practices are reported. Finally, psycho...