Religion/Spirituality (R/S) has been associated with mental health. Although most Filipinos
are Christian, little research has been done on how R/S affects their mental health. To …

Prayer has been found to have a salutary effect on mental health. However little empirical
work has examined the effects of prayer on the well-being in individuals from the Muslim …

The purpose of this special issue of Mental Health, Religion and Culture was to provide a
forum for examples of current research and theorizing examining the relationship between …

Research tells us that there is an effect of prayer on well-being. However, little is known
about the mechanisms that underlie this relationship. In addition, much of the available data …

Research on the benefits of prayer have mainly focused on frequency and often neglect
other aspects of prayer. In this Brief Research Report, we reported independent and joint …

Engaging in prayer and holding positive attitudes toward religion are empirically associated
with personal wellbeing, health, and the relief of distress. This paper starts with those …

Prayer in personal, interpersonal, small, and large group contexts is described in
relationship to physical, psychological, and spiritual health. A sample of college and middle …

Abstract The Baylor Religion Survey (Wave 6; 2021) contains the most comprehensive set of
prayer questions of any national survey of the USA; it also contains multiple indicators of …

The majority of previous social scientific research on prayer has focused on the relationship
between prayer and various types of health outcomes. Only limited attention has been given …

Participants (N= 430) were recruited online and completed a measure of six prayer types
(adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, reception, and obligatory prayer) …