Many of the links of religiousness with health, well-being, and social behavior may be due to
religion's influences on self-control or self-regulation. Using Carver and Scheier's (1998) …

The association between religiousness and depressive symptoms was examined with meta-
analytic methods across 147 independent investigations (N= 98,975). Across all studies, the …

When faced with a crisis, why do some people turn to religion to help them cope, while
others turn away? Is religious belief merely a defense or a form of denial? Is spirituality a …

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new theoretically based measure
that would assess the full range of religious coping methods, including potentially helpful …

Abstract The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale assesses 7 sources of self-esteem in
college students: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support …

Psychologists have tended to view religion from a distance as a global, undifferentiated,
stable process that is largely good or largely bad. This article presents a more fine-grained …

Two types of religious internalization are conceptualized that are presumed to vary in their
relative autonomy. Introjection represents a partial internalization of beliefs and is …

A decade of work by Bergin and others is reviewed and synthesized concerning two broad
issues:(a) the role of values in psychotherapy and (b) the relation of religion to mental …

Research on the relationship between religious commitment and psychopamology has
produced mixed findings. In a recent meta-analysis, Bergin (1983) found mat 23% of the …

Objective This study examined the impact of spirituality and religiosity on depressive
symptom severity in a sample of terminally ill patients with cancer and AIDS. Methods One …