The Effect of Religiosity and Spirituality on Mental Health: Reply to Two Commentaries

IF 1.7 2区哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10508619.2020.1861814

B. Garssen, A. Visser

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT We published a meta-analysis to determine the longitudinal positive effect of religion or spirituality (R/S) on mental health. Forty-eight longitudinal studies were summarized (59 independent samples). The meta-analysis yielded a significant, but small overall effect size of r =.08. We concluded that there is evidence for a positive effect of R/S on mental health, but this effect is small. Our meta-analysis was recently criticized in this Journal by Koenig et al. Scientific debate is welcome, but we disagree with most of their comments. Our reply focusses on the following topics: Is the effect of R/S small? Might methodological issues underlie the small overall effect size? Randomized controlled studies, and change course and look elsewhere for more convincing results?

查看原文本刊更多论文

宗教性和精神性对心理健康的影响:回复两篇评论

摘要：我们发表了一项荟萃分析，以确定宗教或精神（R/S）对心理健康的纵向积极影响。总结了48项纵向研究（59个独立样本）。荟萃分析得出显著但较小的总体效应大小r=.08。我们得出的结论是，有证据表明R/S对心理健康有积极影响，但这种影响很小。Koenig等人最近在本期刊上批评了我们的荟萃分析。科学辩论是受欢迎的，但我们不同意他们的大多数评论。我们的答复集中在以下几个问题上：R/S的影响小吗？方法论问题可能是整体效应较小的基础吗？随机对照研究，改变方向，寻找更令人信服的结果？

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.