Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Alka M Kanaya, A Heather Eliassen, Alexandra E Shields
{"title":"Forgiveness and Health across Racial-Ethnic Cohorts: Exploring the Conditioning Roles of Religious Attendance and Closeness to God in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health.","authors":"Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Alka M Kanaya, A Heather Eliassen, Alexandra E Shields","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2024.2426731","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13674676.2024.2426731","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empirical research has found a robust association between greater forgiveness and well-being, but we know little of how this may operate in diverse samples of respondents. This study draws on data from the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII; White women) and the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) to address this gap and test the possible moderating role of religious attendance and perceived closeness with God. Regression results suggest that self and other forgiveness were associated with lower depressive symptoms in both samples. Yet, the relationship between self-forgiveness and lower depressive symptoms was stronger for White women who attended religious services more frequently and had a closer perceived relationship with God. In the South Asian sample, these same moderation patterns were observed, but for the forgiveness of others only. We suggest several directions for future research on forgiveness and well-being beyond predominantly White, Christian samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"27 5","pages":"474-498"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12180370/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emmanuel D Thomas, Manshu Yang, Ateka A Contractor, Nicole H Weiss
{"title":"Examining the Proximal Relationship between Religious Coping and Depression among Trauma-Exposed Adults.","authors":"Emmanuel D Thomas, Manshu Yang, Ateka A Contractor, Nicole H Weiss","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2024.2357795","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13674676.2024.2357795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Depression is a common consequence of sexual victimization. Although religious coping has been previously studied within the context of sexual victimization, there is a dearth of research examining the potential reciprocal relationships between religious coping and depression among adults with a history of sexual victimization at the daily level. The current study addresses this important gap by leveraging an intensive longitudinal design and data analysis to explore bidirectional daily relations between religious coping and depression symptoms in a community sample of adults with a history of sexual victimization. Participants were 84 individuals with a history of sexual assault who self-identified as religious (<i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 37.43, 67.5% women, 83.1% white). Cross-lagged models showed that prior-day religious coping positively predicted next-day depression symptoms, whereas prior-day depression did not predict next-day religious coping. Findings underscore the potential utility of religious coping in the detection and treatment of depression in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"27 4","pages":"313-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11753798/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Alka M Kanaya, A Heather Eliassen, Shelley A Cole, Alexandra E Shields
{"title":"Belief in Miracles, Religious/Spiritual Struggles, and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Variation among American Indian, South Asian, and White Cohorts in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health.","authors":"Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Alka M Kanaya, A Heather Eliassen, Shelley A Cole, Alexandra E Shields","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2025.2474163","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13674676.2025.2474163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Belief in miracles is widespread, extending to many religious traditions, societies, and cultures. This study examines the relationship between a belief that God heals physical illness through miracles with depressive symptoms, and the possible moderating role of religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles in buffering or exacerbating this relationship. We utilize the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health (SSSH), which provides a wide array of R/S data, including on South Asian (SA) and American Indian (AI) respondents for which there is an extreme lack of research. Results suggest that American Indians were almost twice as likely as South Asians or White nurses to believe in miracles by God in response to illness. We documented null associations between belief in miracles and depressive symptoms in the American Indian and South Asian samples, but a belief in miracles was linked to lower depressive symptoms among mostly White women (all of whom were employed as nurses, unlike the SA and AI samples). Across all three groups, R/S struggles had a stronger association with greater depressive symptoms for those who did not believe in miracles compared to those who did. We discuss possible directions for further research and encourage future work to explore how the various dimensions of R/S predict health and well-being and disease etiology beyond predominantly White U.S-based samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"27 6","pages":"593-614"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12203137/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie J. Francis, Bruce G. Fawcett, Ursula McKenna
{"title":"Exploring the factor structure of the adolescent form of the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETSA) among Canadian Baptist youth: full form and short form","authors":"Leslie J. Francis, Bruce G. Fawcett, Ursula McKenna","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2256676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2256676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"31 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saadia Dildar, Asiya Khalid, Ansa Naveed, Anum Shazia
{"title":"Mindfulness and mystical experiences in Sufis and non-Sufis","authors":"Saadia Dildar, Asiya Khalid, Ansa Naveed, Anum Shazia","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2250269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2250269","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of the current study was to explore mindfulness and mystical experiences in Sufis and non-Sufis. Purposive sampling was used to collect the sample of 30 Sufis and 30 non-Sufis from members of Muslim Institute Lahore and two government universities of Lahore, respectively. The instruments used were a mystical orientation scale and a Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. The results revealed that Sufis have higher mystical/ spiritual experiences than non-Sufis. Sufis also scored high on observing, describing and non-reactivity facets of mindfulness compared to non-Sufi while non-Sufi scored greater on acting with awareness and non-judging facets compared to Sufis. Overall mindfulness was greater in men than women. A significant moderating role of gender in the non-react facet of mindfulness and mystical experiences was also found. The study finds its implication in cultivating mindfulness among non-Sufis, so that through mystical experiences their faith could be strengthened and their well-being could be improved.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"33 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hiba Zein, Marwa Summaka, Nour el hoda Saleh, Fatima Hamieh, Ibrahim Naim
{"title":"Validity and reliability of the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale in Lebanese people during the pandemic","authors":"Hiba Zein, Marwa Summaka, Nour el hoda Saleh, Fatima Hamieh, Ibrahim Naim","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2227143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2227143","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhile global attention is drawn to the somatic consequences of COVID-19, its psychological impact including fear and worry should be considered. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Lebanon, to cross-culturally adapt and validate the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) into the Arabic language among the Lebanese population. The study encompassed 712 Lebanese participants. Results showed that the A-FCV-19S has high internal consistency (α = .849). The exploratory factor analysis extracted a two-factor model explaining 68.428% of the total variance. As for the convergent validity, the A-FCV-19S total score significantly correlated with the HSCL-anxiety and HSCL-depression (r = .550 and .452, p-value < .0001 respectively). Thus, the findings indicate that the A-FCV-19S has acceptable psychometric properties and, therefore, it is a valid and reliable measure that can be used to evaluate and monitor the fear of COVID-19 among the general Lebanese population.KEYWORDS: FearCOVID-19psychological impactpsychometricsLebanon AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the team of the HRIR Center for their help to conduct the study.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dani Fadillah, Zanuwar Hakim Atmantika, Zalik Nuryana
{"title":"Strengthening spiritual and cultural approaches in managing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Dani Fadillah, Zanuwar Hakim Atmantika, Zalik Nuryana","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2252348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2252348","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135246849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development and validation of the COVID-19 Depression Scale (COVID-19DS): association with the Perceived Health-Related Components Scale","authors":"M. Dadfar, D. Lester, Y. Turan","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2021.1978958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.1978958","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aims of the study were: (a) to develop, assess the psychometric properties and explore the factorial structure of the COVID-19 Depression Scale (COVID-19DS), (b) to explore correlations of the COVID-19DS scores with the Perceived Health-related Components Scale (PHCS) scores, and (c) to examine gender differences. A total sample of 313 Turkish students was selected. Cronbach's α was .92. Two factors were extracted and labeled Affective, Cognitive, and Somatic/Vegetative and COVID-19 Depression. The COVID-19DS score was negatively correlated with the PHCS score. Females scored higher than males on the COVID-19DS, and lower than males on the PHCS. Perceived health-related components were most frequently rated as much worse or worse for current status compared to before the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19DS is recommended for use in assessing depression due to coronavirus and as a screening tool to identify those with extremely high scores who may be in need of psycho-educational interventions.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"46 1","pages":"550 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84335574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ji-Yeun Park, Thushara Galbadage, Hyuna Lee, David C. Wang, Brent M. Peterson
{"title":"Mental health, substance use, and the importance of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Ji-Yeun Park, Thushara Galbadage, Hyuna Lee, David C. Wang, Brent M. Peterson","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2202382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2202382","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has impacted all areas of life, with lasting effects on physical, mental, and societal health. Specifically, COVID and related losses have exacerbated prolonged grief responses and mental disorders including depression and anxiety. These mental health concerns are associated with increased detrimental coping strategies including substance use. In this study, we analysed secondary data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results showed a positive association between serious psychological distress and marijuana use, while frequent religious service attendance acted as a moderator in this relationship. Individuals involved in communal religious activity were less likely to use marijuana. This study highlights the impact of religion and faith in bringing hope and purpose during periods of loss, coping with stress, grief, mental health challenges, and substance use.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136066064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of religion in posttraumatic growth among population exposed to armed conflict: a systematic review","authors":"I. Fayaz","doi":"10.1080/13674676.2023.2237909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2023.2237909","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study aims to systematically review the relationship between religiosity and posttraumatic growth in populations exposed to armed conflict. A search of the published literature identified 06 empirical studies that reported links between religiosity and posttraumatic growth in armed conflict. This review identified three main findings. First, a relationship exists between religiosity and PTG in the context of armed conflict. Second, religious coping was found to be associated with the development of posttraumatic growth. Third, the traumatic experiences from armed conflict can lead to the deepening of religiosity. This review highlights that while the available evidence is limited, individuals’ religious and spiritual beliefs can significantly influence their ability to thrive and experience growth after trauma from armed conflict.","PeriodicalId":47614,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Religion & Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"455 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45660840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}