This article analyzes the relationship between religiosity and vaccine hesitancy by highlighting role of a specific dimension that makes some people more prone to explaining health conditions as divine agency—the belief in immanent presence everyday life. Accordingly, these may undervalue vaccination solution cope with pandemic be skeptical vaccines. We suggest mechanism focusing on mediating b...

Religiosity is often associated with positive mental health outcomes. may also mitigate COVID-19 concerns. In a sample of 553 Persian-speaking Muslims, we investigated the extent to which specific beliefs about God (Allah) were four negative outcomes: depression, anxiety, stress, and anxiety. Consistent results English-speaking samples, found that religiosity, belief in God’s benevolence, psych...

Empirical studies of religion's role in society, especially those focused on individuals and analyzing survey data, conceptualize and measure religiosity on a single measure or a summary index of multiple measures. Other concepts, such as "lived religion," "believing without belonging," or "fuzzy fidelity," emphasize what scholars have noted for decades: humans are rarely consistently low, medi...

A growing corpus of literature has explored the influence religion on economic attitudes and behavior. The present paper investigates effect labor market performance using a novel approach to control for endogeneity religion. It proposes contingency experience, individual experiences existential insecurity, as an instrumental variable person’s religiosity. empirical analysis uses data from hous...

human was created from both the natural and spiritual dimensions and has multimodal functions (e.g., cognitive, behavioral, affective, sensation, interpersonal relationship, and etc.). having one-dimensional impression in life would provide anxiety predisposition for man, but then having an integrated and monotheistic view would result in an assimilated psychological discipline for him/her. the...

This dissertation consists of three independent but related research articles dealing with religiosity, mental health, and children. The first uses the General Social Survey to perform the first large-N, non-conveniencesample analysis of the relationship between belief in God and sense of purpose. Using logistic regression analysis I find that there is a positive association, expanding our know...

This paper with emphasising on religious context of Iranian society, has a critical interpretation which considers psychological damages as an inevitable consequence of modernity(with integrated sociological and psychological approach) attempts to address youth mental health issues. In this regard, this paper with constructing mental aspects (belief and emotional) objective (ritual and outcome)...

Background: Religiosity is a complex, multifaceted construct, comprising variety of beliefs and behaviours. Much the previous research that seeks to quantify religiosity has made use variable-centred approaches, which place individuals on continuum religiosity. However, alternative approaches provide way examine different types religiosity, represented by heterogeneous classes religious ...