Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Acknowledgment85
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)41
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.37
Supplemental Material for A Longitudinal Study of Racism, Religion/Spirituality, and Health in a Nationwide Sample of Black Americans37
The development of the Christian Views of Suffering Scale.36
Daily spiritual experiences and self-rated health in the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study: Indirect effects via purpose in life.36
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.36
Supplemental Material for Between- and Within-Person Effects of Divine Forgiveness on Depression, Rumination, and Flourishing31
Spiritual transformation through pilgrimage: A grounded theory analysis of experiences in Taiwan, Japan, and Spain.31
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.28
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.27
Supplemental Material for Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Students at Traditionally Christian and Nonreligious Institutions of Higher Education26
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.25
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.23
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image23
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.23
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?21
Supplemental Material for Psychological Functions of Religious Holidays Versus Nonreligious Vacation: Findings From a Series of Experiments About Shabbat20
Superstition makes you less deontological: Explaining the moral function of superstition by compensatory control theory.19
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.18
Supplemental Material for The Codevelopment of Contingent Self-Worth and Religious Engagement in U.S. College Students18
Religiosity, spirituality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-related symptoms in clinical and nonclinical samples.18
Stressful events, stress level, and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model with secure attachment to god as moderator.17
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures17
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.16
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men16
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.16
Relationship between numinous constructs and values.15
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit14
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.14
Not as good as I would like to be: Moral self-discrepancy, religiosity, spirituality, and mental health.13
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.13
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities12
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs12
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.12
Karma rewards me and punishes you: Self–other divergences in karma beliefs.12
They are trying to harm me, but the world has a hidden plan for me: Cognitive correlates of conspirituality and its links to well-being indicators.12
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.11
Supplemental Material for Spiritual Harm and Abuse in Religious Deidentification From Ultra-Orthodox Judaism11
Supplemental Material for The Development of the Christian Views of Suffering Scale11
The specificity of the experience–belief relationship for paranormal and religious experiences and beliefs.11
Religious/spiritual struggles and depression during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in the global south: Evidence of moderation by positive religious coping and hope.11
A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality: What predicts it and who benefits?11
Supplemental Material for “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression10
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.10
Encompassing marvel of body and spirit: Daoist mysticism and interpretation.10
Supplemental Material for Reducing Hostility, Increasing Warmth: Varying Ways Religion Relates to Parenting10
Time-varying and gender differences in religious socialization and associations with Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity.10
Supplemental Material for Children’s Beliefs About God’s Intervention in Everyday Life9
A longitudinal study of racism, religion/spirituality, and health in a nationwide sample of Black Americans.9
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints9
Supplemental Material for Attachment to Mother, Father, and God: Testing for Latent Profiles of the Correspondence and Compensation Hypotheses and Their Relation to Well-Being Among U.S. Emerging Adul9
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.9
Supplemental Material for Is Grace Amazing or Old Wine in a New Bottle? Psychometric Development of the Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale (PEGS)9
Atheism is not the absence of religion: Development of the monotheist and atheist belief scales and associations with death anxiety and analytic thinking.9
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis9
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.8
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.8
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.8
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.7
Children’s beliefs about God’s intervention in everyday life.7
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.7
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.7
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose7
Toward enlightenment: Dissolving the ego and expanding the world through mindfulness and psychedelics.7
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.7
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.7
The role of karmic beliefs in immanent justice reasoning.7
Spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in veterans seeking outpatient treatment: The mediating role of perceived burdensomeness.7
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.7
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.7
The cosmic battle: Belief in a warrior god, a powerful devil, and a serious threat of hell relates to QAnon beliefs, generic conspiracist beliefs, and seeing political opponents as evil.7
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.7
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time.6
Psychological functions of religious holidays versus nonreligious vacation: Findings from a series of experiments about Shabbat.6
The impact of general and religious/spiritual minority stressors on LGBTQ+ individuals’ spiritual health.6
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.6
Supplemental Material for Religious Identity and Intersectional Privilege: (A)Symmetric Biases in Christians and Atheists Are Unaffected by Prompts to Consider Religious and Racial Privilege6
Supplemental Material for Encompassing Marvel of Body and Spirit: Daoist Mysticism and Interpretation6
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.6
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities.6
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.6
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It6
Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.5
The four horsemen of religious deidentification.5
Supplemental Material for Definitions of Meditation Among Lay People: A Mixed Method Examination Considering the Roles of Meditation Experience, Religion, and Spirituality5
Acknowledgment5
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.5
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report5
Supplemental Material for Religion-Justified Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Maladjustment5
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.5
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.5
Religiousness and homonegativity in congregations: The role of individual, congregational, and clergy characteristics.5
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.5
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.4
Assessing the effect of increased analytic thinking on religious beliefs.4
An examination of the factor structure of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) in atheist and Christian samples.4
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).4
Empirical validation of “selflessness” as a neuropsychological foundation of spiritual transcendence.4
The God Attachment Questionnaire: Development and validation of an avoidant and anxious god attachment measure.4
Plastic piety: A mixed-methods study of the connection between religiosity, cosmetic surgery, and body image.4
Experiences of sexual and gender minority students at traditionally Christian and nonreligious institutions of higher education.4
Supplemental Material for The Language of Religious and Secular Practices: A Mixed Method Analysis4
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.4
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”.4
Relationships between right-wing authoritarianism and spirituality in Japan.4
Supplemental Material for The Varieties of Spiritual Ties to Place: A Latent Class Analysis4
“At its core, Islam is about standing with the oppressed”: Exploring transgender Muslims’ religious resilience.3
Supplemental Material for Life Loses Some Meaning After Leaving Religion3
Do peers mediate the association between religiosity and the alcohol use of Indonesian Muslim adolescents?3
Conservation of resources theory and spirituality at work: When a resource is not always a resource.3
Supplemental Material for Are Agnostics Associated With Immorality to the Same Degree as Atheists?3
The language of religious and secular practices: A mixed method analysis.3
Supplemental Material for Differentiating Personified, Supernatural, and Abstract Views of God Across Three Cognitive Domains3
Supplemental Material for Spirituality and Meaning-Making Across Contexts: Structural Topic Modeling of the Fetzer Spirituality Study in the United States3
Supplemental Material for Religion and Well-Being: What Is the Magnitude and the Practical Significance of the Relationship?3
Supplemental Material for Is Belief Priming Associated With Prosocial Intentions? Experimental Evidence From Turkey3
Religiosity, spirituality, national narcissism, and prejudice toward refugees and sexual minorities in Poland.3
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Relationship Between Religious Motivations and Purpose: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Approach3
Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.3
The social pain of religious deidentification: Religious dones conceal their identity and feel less belonging in religious cultures.3
Supplemental Material for The RSS-14: Development and Preliminary Validation of a 14-item Form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale3
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Psychedelic Use by Adults in the United States: Perceived Psychospiritual Benefits and Risks, Including Spiritual Struggles3
Supplemental Material for Nuanced Associations of Maternal Religious Beliefs and Patriarchal Values With Children’s Academic Achievement2
Are agnostics associated with immorality to the same degree as atheists?2
Unpacking the ways in which different forms of belonging relate to well-being for religious LGBTQ+ people in the United States.2
Lay theories of mating interest and mate retention strategies for atheists and theists in the Southern United States.2
Supplemental Material for Not as Good as I Would Like to Be: Moral Self-Discrepancy, Religiosity, Spirituality, and Mental Health2
Supplemental Material for Dimensionality of Scrupulosity and Its Associations With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Sample: A Network Approach2
Exploring mindfulness, compassion, caring for bliss, gratitude, forgiveness, and generosity in relation to college students’ genuine happiness: A two-wave longitudinal study.2
Many reasons for religious doubt: Links with doubt struggles, mental health, and an open, humble, questing orientation.2
Religion-justified childhood maltreatment and adult psychological maladjustment.2
Black–white biracial Christians, discrimination, and mental health: A moderated mediation model of church support and religious coping.2
The codevelopment of contingent self-worth and religious engagement in U.S. college students.2
Divine forgiveness and psychological health: The role of divine intervention.2
The Divine Forgiveness Questionnaire: Developing and validating a measure of the experience of God’s forgiveness across the abrahamic religions.2
“Prayer is universal”: How integrative faith practices enable Indigenous peoples’ persistence and resistance to transcend historical oppression.2
The protective role of identity integration against internalized sexual prejudice for religious gay men.2
Supplemental Material for When Catholic and Polish Identity Goals Meet: Goal Overlap via a Sense of Belonging2
Development and validation of the Where-Being of God Scale.2
Psychological symptoms in Arab American women: Adverse childhood experiences, racism, and the role of religiosity.2
Supplemental Material for Attitudes Toward Aging and Happiness Among Chinese Older Adults: Spirituality as a Mediator2
Supplemental Material for An Investigation of the Construct Validity of Spiritual Readiness in a Sample of Active Duty Army Personnel2
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.2
Examining the relationship between awe, spirituality, and religiosity.2
Supplemental Material for Torn at the Seams: Moral Struggles Surrounding Same-Sex Relationships in Christian-Raised Individuals Reporting Same-Sex Attraction2
Worlds apart? Atheist, agnostic, and humanist worldviews in three European countries.2
Is belief priming associated with prosocial intentions? Experimental evidence from Turkey.2
Supplemental Material for The Feeling Is Not Mutual: Religious Belief Predicts Compatibility Between Science and Religion, but Scientific Belief Predicts Conflict2
Nuanced associations of maternal religious beliefs and patriarchal values with children’s academic achievement.2
Supplemental Material for Religious Service Attendance and Common Mental Disorders and Well-Being: Causal Effects Based on a Longitudinal Marginal Structural Model Approach2
Disagreeing well: The role of virtues among Christians in conflict in the United States.1
Supplemental Material for Meaning Making Enhances Gratitude to God: The Importance of Spiritual Appraisals1
Spiritual harm and abuse in religious deidentification from ultra-Orthodox Judaism.1
Young adults using apps for alternative spirituality.1
Religiosity as a predictor of worry during stressful periods of uncertainty.1
Can religious affiliation protect mothers from work–family conflict? A study of Jewish ultra-Orthodox and non-ultra-Orthodox mothers.1
Religiosity and mistreatment among Christian and Muslim Arab Americans.1
A meta-analytic comparison of longitudinal changes in scores on the Religious Spiritual and Struggles Scale and mental health symptom measures.1
When catholic and polish identity goals meet: Goal overlap via a sense of belonging.1
Towards a psychology of divine forgiveness.1
The power of presence: Well-being and biopsychosocial effects of virtual versus in-person religious services.1
Meaning in science as a response to existential threat.1
Call and response: A six-wave study of bidirectional links between religiosity and spirituality among Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan.1
The temporal relationship between religious motivations and purpose: A cross-lagged panel model approach.1
Effects of prayer frequency and orientations on distress and well-being: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Indonesian adults.1
Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews.1
Sixty years of studying the sacred: Auditing and advancing the psychology of religion and spirituality.1
Why do the devout remain devoted? Exploring religious expectations and relational compensators.1
Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men.1
What factors buffer the effects of parent–adolescent religious discrepancy to preserve parent–child connectedness?1
How does psychedelic use relate to aspects of religiosity/spirituality? Preregistered report from a birth cohort study and a prospective longitudinal study.1
Supplemental Material for Affordances of Costly Religious Practices for Mating1
The role of holistic religiosity on mental health and mental illness: A global study of Muslims.1
Parent religiosity as a protective and promotive factor in reducing future arrest in youth with antisocial and conventional peers.1
Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language.1
Supplemental Material for Meaning in Science as a Response to Existential Threat1
You shall go forth with joy: Religion and aspirational judgments about emotion.1
Supplemental Material for The Divine Forgiveness Questionnaire: Developing and Validating a Measure of the Experience of God’s Forgiveness Across the Abrahamic Religions1
A mixed-methods study of communing with and complaining to the divine: Imagined conversations with god among undergraduates reporting religious and spiritual struggles.1
Fallout of faith in Iran: How religious leaders’ hypocrisy undermines beliefs while parents’ devotion sustains it.1
Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality.1
Acknowledgment1
Dimensionality of scrupulosity and its associations with obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in a nonclinical sample: A network approach.1
Sanctifying suffering and fostering self-forgiveness: Exploring pathways to well-being in chronic pain management.1
Supplemental Material for Religious Contingent Self-Worth in U.S. Christians: A Latent Profile Analysis1
Disclosure of afterdeath communication: A mixed-methods approach.1
Supplemental Material for In the Wake of Religious Conversions: Differences in Cognition and Emotion Across Three Religious Communities of an Indigenous Tribe in Malaysia1
Between- and within-person effects of divine forgiveness on depression, rumination, and flourishing.1
Attitudes toward genomic health care among Christian dones in the United States.1
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