Over the past several decades, scholarly interest in God representations has grown steadily,
but conceptual and measurement challenges have persisted. Consequently, in this article …

This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a
meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected …

Objective: This paper presents a two-phase cross-sectional study aimed at examining the
possible mitigating role of perceived meaning of life and representation of death on …

This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing the fear of
death in a large cohort of Italian adolescents. Following the constructs of “distal defenses” …

Background The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to
derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education …

The censorship of death-related issues is widespread in contemporary Western culture
because the boundary between death and life is substantially managed in medical areas. In …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major social changes to which significant
psychological effects are linked. During the first phase of the pandemic wave in Italy, whilst …

Spirituality may be a key factor in reducing the negative psychological effects of traumatic
events and a means by which the experience of grief can be processed. The objective of the …

Identifying as nonreligious is increasingly more common in the United States. However, up
until recently the field has been slow to understand differences in experience among those …

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relation of daily spiritual experiences to
multifaceted meaning making in bereavement, and the role of social validation of sense …