Empirical studies have identified significant links between religion and spirituality and health. The reasons for these associations, however, are unclear. Typically, religion and spirituality have been measured by global indices (e.g., frequency of church attendance, self-rated religiousness and spirituality) that do not specify how or why religion and spirituality affect health. The authors h...

Psychiatric patients (age 59+) were assessed before study treatment for major depressive disorder, and again after 3 months. Measures taken before study treatment included facets of religiousness (subjective religiosity, private prayer, worship attendance, and religious media use), social support, and perceived stress. Clinician-rated depression severity was assessed both before and after treat...

Individuals frequently perceive positive changes in themselves following adversity; after a collective trauma, they may perceive such benefits in others or in their society as well. We examined perceived benefits of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks in a 3-year study of a national sample of adults (N = 1382). Many individuals (57.8%) perceived social benefits of 9/11, including in...

The purpose of this study was to examine the variation in stress coping strategies (adaptive and maladaptive) among Portuguese-speaking immigrant women across shortterm and long-term residency status. This study also examined the role of resilient characteristics (self-esteem, hope, optimism, spirituality, and religiousness), perceived stresses (cultural adaptation, relational, financial) and p...

This article analyzes the relationship between religiousness and attitudes to health illness, as well commitment a healthy lifestyle. The author underlines difficulty of defining concept and, accordingly, problem identifying number religious people. also deals with perception Orthodox Christianity cultural tradition rather than confession. issue dehumanization medicine separation from religion ...

attitude toward motherhood among societies has changed over time and fertility rates have decreased. mothering and motherhood are rapidly expanding subjects of the literature of the context. a set of these studies has a more macro focus in terms of origins of motherhood and how it is manifested in practice. in the current research, based on parson's general theory of action (a.g.i.l), moth...