OBJECTIVE The role of religion in mental illness remains understudied. Most prior investigations of this relationship have used measures of religiosity that do not reflect its complexity and/or have examined a small number of psychiatric outcomes. This study used data from a general population sample to clarify the dimensions of religiosity and the relationships of these dimensions to risk for ...

BACKGROUND This study examined the association between blood pressure (BP), selected health behaviors, and various dimensions of religiosity among females. METHODS Data were obtained on 112 females who were at least 35 years of age and of Judeo-Christian faith. Resting BP measures were taken with an automated sphygmomanometer, height and weight were measured to determine body mass index (BMI)...

The study  attempts to answer two basic  questions. Firstly, whether  religiosity  is  efficient  in  reducing  delinquent   behavior   and , secondly, if the answer is yes , how much is its effect? The samples was divided into common people and delinquent youth in prison. The scholars like Durkheim, Weber, Stark, Glock and those assertions regarding delinquency as Merton, Hirschi learning the...

In adults, relationships between religiosity and positive health behaviors have been established; however, similar studies among emerging adults has not been explored. This study examined the relationship between multiple dimensions of religiosity, physical activity, fast food intake, and obesity among emerging adults. Data are from 1,319 emerging adults participating in the National Longitudin...

This study considers potential interaction effects of three measures of religiosity, organized (OR), non-organized (NOR), and intrinsic religiosity (IR), on depression and general mental health, controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and mobility. In-home interviews were conducted among a stratified random sample of Medicare beneficiaries from five central Alabama counties (the Unive...

the aim of this article is to extract dimensions of religiosity in quranic verses which is made possible by analyzing the qualitative contents and grounded theory. findings show that faith and good deeds are two fundamental dimensions of religiosity and by them man gets promoted from potentiality to actuality or from deficiency to perfection. by internalizing the theoretical dimensions of relig...

The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality that has been applied yet in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. It measures the general intensities of five theoretical defined core dimensions...

The impact of religiosity in suicidal behavior was evaluated in Brazil through a case-control study in which 110 subjects who had attempted suicide through the use of toxic substances were compared with 114 control subjects with no history of suicide attempts. Religiosity was measured in three aspects: organizational religious activities (ORAs), nonorganizational religious activities (NORAs), a...