Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Determinants of serving a mission: Senior volunteering among Latter-Day Saints.62
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.27
How do religious congregations affect congregants’ attitudes toward lesbian women and gay men?27
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.27
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)26
Acknowledgment26
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.26
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.25
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.25
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.22
Religiosity, spirituality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-related symptoms in clinical and nonclinical samples.19
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image18
Stressful events, stress level, and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model with secure attachment to god as moderator.17
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.16
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.16
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?15
Superstition makes you less deontological: Explaining the moral function of superstition by compensatory control theory.15
Supplemental Material for Do You Need Religion to Enjoy the Benefits of Church Services? Social Bonding, Morality and Quality of Life Among Religious and Secular Congregations15
Acknowledgment15
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Indebtedness to God: A New Construct in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality15
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.14
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men14
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.14
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit14
Relationship between numinous constructs and values.14
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.13
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.13
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.13
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures13
Mothers’ perceptions of the role of religion in parent–child communication about a death in the family.12
Religious/spiritual struggles and depression during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in the global south: Evidence of moderation by positive religious coping and hope.12
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.12
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs12
A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality: What predicts it and who benefits?12
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities12
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.11
Supplemental Material for Reducing Hostility, Increasing Warmth: Varying Ways Religion Relates to Parenting11
Supplemental Material for “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression11
Supplemental Material for Is Grace Amazing or Old Wine in a New Bottle? Psychometric Development of the Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale (PEGS)10
Time-varying and gender differences in religious socialization and associations with Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity.10
Supplemental Material for Approach, Disengagement, Protest, and Suppression: Four Behaviors Toward God in the Context of Religious/Spiritual Struggle10
Supplemental Material for Religious and Spiritual Struggles Around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections10
Atheism is not the absence of religion: Development of the monotheist and atheist belief scales and associations with death anxiety and analytic thinking.10
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis9
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints9
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.9
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.8
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.8
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.8
Supplemental Material for Karma and God: Convergent and Divergent Mental Representations of Supernatural Norm Enforcement8
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.8
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.8
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.8
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.8
Family religiosity, support, and psychological well-being for sexual minority atheist individuals.8
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.8
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.8
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.7
Supplemental Material for Religious Identity and Intersectional Privilege: (A)Symmetric Biases in Christians and Atheists Are Unaffected by Prompts to Consider Religious and Racial Privilege7
Ours is not to reason why: Information seeking across domains.7
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time.7
The role of karmic beliefs in immanent justice reasoning.7
A camel through the eye of a needle: The influence of the prosperity gospel on financial risk-taking, optimistic bias, and positive emotion.7
Spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in veterans seeking outpatient treatment: The mediating role of perceived burdensomeness.7
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.7
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.7
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose7
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities.7
Religiousness and homonegativity in congregations: The role of individual, congregational, and clergy characteristics.6
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.6
Sexual identity and religious endorsement: The role of image of god and belief in punitive religious constructs.6
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.6
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.6
Religiousness is associated with higher empathic concern—Evidence from self- and other-ratings.6
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report6
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.6
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.6
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It6
Acknowledgment6
Supplemental Material for Worlds Apart? Atheist, Agnostic, and Humanist Worldviews in Three European Countries5
Relationships between right-wing authoritarianism and spirituality in Japan.5
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.5
An examination of the factor structure of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) in atheist and Christian samples.5
Supplemental Material for The Varieties of Spiritual Ties to Place: A Latent Class Analysis5
Religiosity, spirituality, national narcissism, and prejudice toward refugees and sexual minorities in Poland.5
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).5
Supplemental Material for Religiosity, Spirituality, National Narcissism, and Prejudice Toward Refugees and Sexual Minorities in Poland5
Plastic piety: A mixed-methods study of the connection between religiosity, cosmetic surgery, and body image.5
Where are we, and where should we go? An introduction to Davis et al., “Sixty years of studying the sacred: Auditing and advancing the psychology of religion and spirituality”.5
Conservation of resources theory and spirituality at work: When a resource is not always a resource.5
The social pain of religious deidentification: Religious dones conceal their identity and feel less belonging in religious cultures.5
Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.5
A person-centered approach to the dark triad traits and religiousness: Examining differences in intellectual humility, prosociality, and mental health in U.S. college students.5
Supplemental Material for Prejudice Among the Religious Majority: A Person-Centered Approach to Prejudice Among Christians in the United States5
Supplemental Material for The Language of Religious and Secular Practices: A Mixed Method Analysis5
Existentially threatening stimuli increase religious cognitive dissonance among the less intrinsically religious.5
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.5
Supplemental Material for Is Belief Priming Associated With Prosocial Intentions? Experimental Evidence From Turkey4
Supplemental Material for Differentiating Personified, Supernatural, and Abstract Views of God Across Three Cognitive Domains4
“At its core, Islam is about standing with the oppressed”: Exploring transgender Muslims’ religious resilience.4
Meaning behind the movement: Attributing sacred meaning to fluid and nonfluid arm movements increases self-transcendent positive emotions and buffers the effects of nonfluidity on positive emotions.4
Divine forgiveness and psychological health: The role of divine intervention.4
Supplemental Material for The Feeling Is Not Mutual: Religious Belief Predicts Compatibility Between Science and Religion, but Scientific Belief Predicts Conflict4
Supplemental Material for The RSS-14: Development and Preliminary Validation of a 14-item Form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale4
The language of religious and secular practices: A mixed method analysis.4
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Psychedelic Use by Adults in the United States: Perceived Psychospiritual Benefits and Risks, Including Spiritual Struggles4
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Relationship Between Religious Motivations and Purpose: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Approach4
Moral stereotypes, moral self-image, and religiosity.4
Supplemental Material for Spirituality and Meaning-Making Across Contexts: Structural Topic Modeling of the Fetzer Spirituality Study in the United States4
Do peers mediate the association between religiosity and the alcohol use of Indonesian Muslim adolescents?4
Supplemental Material for Are Agnostics Associated With Immorality to the Same Degree as Atheists?4
Supplemental Material for Religion and Well-Being: What Is the Magnitude and the Practical Significance of the Relationship?4
Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.4
Are agnostics associated with immorality to the same degree as atheists?4
“Prayer is universal”: How integrative faith practices enable Indigenous peoples’ persistence and resistance to transcend historical oppression.4
Supplemental Material for When Catholic and Polish Identity Goals Meet: Goal Overlap via a Sense of Belonging3
Sanctifying suffering and fostering self-forgiveness: Exploring pathways to well-being in chronic pain management.3
Disclosure of afterdeath communication: A mixed-methods approach.3
The role of holistic religiosity on mental health and mental illness: A global study of Muslims.3
Supplemental Material for Nuanced Associations of Maternal Religious Beliefs and Patriarchal Values With Children’s Academic Achievement3
Black–white biracial Christians, discrimination, and mental health: A moderated mediation model of church support and religious coping.3
Introduction to special section on current advances in the intersection of religiousness/spirituality and LGBTQ+ studies.3
Differential effects from aspects of religion on female genital mutilation/cutting.3
Apostasy and conversion: Attachment orientations and individual differences in the process of religious change.3
Supplemental Material for Daily Spiritual Experiences and Purpose in Life: The Mediating Role of Loneliness and Moderating Role of Satisfaction With Social and Intimate Relationships3
The interrelationships between spiritual resources and work engagement.3
Is belief priming associated with prosocial intentions? Experimental evidence from Turkey.3
Worlds apart? Atheist, agnostic, and humanist worldviews in three European countries.3
Supplemental Material for Religious Coping With Interpersonal Hurts: Psychosocial Correlates of the Brief RCOPE in Four Non-Western Countries3
Examining the relationship between awe, spirituality, and religiosity.3
Self-transcendence through self-inhibition?: God primes reduce self-accessibility.3
Nuanced associations of maternal religious beliefs and patriarchal values with children’s academic achievement.3
Supplemental Material for Fundamentalism and Intrinsic Religiosity as Factors in Well-Being and Social Connectedness: An Iranian Study3
Towards a psychology of divine forgiveness.3
The protective role of identity integration against internalized sexual prejudice for religious gay men.3
Supplemental Material for Dimensionality of Scrupulosity and Its Associations With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Sample: A Network Approach3
Lay theories of mating interest and mate retention strategies for atheists and theists in the Southern United States.3
The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample.3
Supplemental Material for Torn at the Seams: Moral Struggles Surrounding Same-Sex Relationships in Christian-Raised Individuals Reporting Same-Sex Attraction3
Supplemental Material for How Is Forgivingness Linked to Religiousness, Pessimism, and Social Cynicism? A Longitudinal Investigation for Directional Relationships3
Psychological symptoms in Arab American women: Adverse childhood experiences, racism, and the role of religiosity.3
You shall go forth with joy: Religion and aspirational judgments about emotion.2
Sixty years of studying the sacred: Auditing and advancing the psychology of religion and spirituality.2
Supplemental Material for Beyond Beliefs: Multidimensional Aspects of Religion and Spirituality in Language2
The temporal relationship between religious motivations and purpose: A cross-lagged panel model approach.2
A mixed-methods study of communing with and complaining to the divine: Imagined conversations with god among undergraduates reporting religious and spiritual struggles.2
Supplemental Material for Meaning in Science as a Response to Existential Threat2
Supplemental Material for Meaning Making Enhances Gratitude to God: The Importance of Spiritual Appraisals2
Meaning in science as a response to existential threat.2
Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men.2
Effects of prayer frequency and orientations on distress and well-being: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Indonesian adults.2
Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews.2
Parents with greater religiosity lie less to their children.2
Religious and spiritual struggles among transgender and gender-nonconforming adults.2
Religiosity and volunteering over time: Religious service attendance is associated with the likelihood of volunteering, and religious importance with time spent volunteering.2
Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language.2
Call and response: A six-wave study of bidirectional links between religiosity and spirituality among Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan.2
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