Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Article	Citations
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.	78
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.	36
Acknowledgment	33
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)	32
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.	31
Spiritual transformation through pilgrimage: A grounded theory analysis of experiences in Taiwan, Japan, and Spain.	30
Supplemental Material for Between- and Within-Person Effects of Divine Forgiveness on Depression, Rumination, and Flourishing	30
Daily spiritual experiences and self-rated health in the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study: Indirect effects via purpose in life.	29
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.	29
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.	26
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image	26
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.	24
Religiosity, spirituality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-related symptoms in clinical and nonclinical samples.	22
Stressful events, stress level, and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model with secure attachment to god as moderator.	21
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.	20
Superstition makes you less deontological: Explaining the moral function of superstition by compensatory control theory.	20
Supplemental Material for The Codevelopment of Contingent Self-Worth and Religious Engagement in U.S. College Students	19
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.	18
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?	18
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Indebtedness to God: A New Construct in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality	17
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures	17
Acknowledgment	17
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men	16
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.	15
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit	15

Relationship between numinous constructs and values.	15
Not as good as I would like to be: Moral self-discrepancy, religiosity, spirituality, and mental health.	14
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.	14
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.	14
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.	13
The specificity of the experience–belief relationship for paranormal and religious experiences and beliefs.	13
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs	13
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities	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
Karma rewards me and punishes you: Self–other divergences in karma beliefs.	11
Supplemental Material for Spiritual Harm and Abuse in Religious Deidentification From Ultra-Orthodox Judaism	11
Supplemental Material for “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression	11
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.	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
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.	11
Supplemental Material for Reducing Hostility, Increasing Warmth: Varying Ways Religion Relates to Parenting	11
Encompassing marvel of body and spirit: Daoist mysticism and interpretation.	10
Time-varying and gender differences in religious socialization and associations with Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity.	10
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.	10
Supplemental Material for Children’s Beliefs About God’s Intervention in Everyday Life	10
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 Metasynthesis	9
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.	9
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	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
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.	9
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.	8
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.	8
The role of karmic beliefs in immanent justice reasoning.	8
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.	8
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.	8
Children’s beliefs about God’s intervention in everyday life.	7
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.	7
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 Privilege	7
Supplemental Material for Definitions of Meditation Among Lay People: A Mixed Method Examination Considering the Roles of Meditation Experience, Religion, and Spirituality	7
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.	7
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.	7
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities.	7
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time.	7
Religiousness and homonegativity in congregations: The role of individual, congregational, and clergy characteristics.	7
Spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in veterans seeking outpatient treatment: The mediating role of perceived burdensomeness.	7
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.	7
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.	7
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose	7
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.	7
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.	7
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.	6
Supplemental Material for Religion-Justified Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Maladjustment	6

Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.	6
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.	6
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.	6
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.	6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.	6
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report	6
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.	6
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It	6
The impact of general and religious/spiritual minority stressors on LGBTQ+ individuals’ spiritual health.	6
Supplemental Material for Encompassing Marvel of Body and Spirit: Daoist Mysticism and Interpretation	6
Acknowledgment	6
The four horsemen of religious deidentification.	6
Plastic piety: A mixed-methods study of the connection between religiosity, cosmetic surgery, and body image.	5
Supplemental Material for The Language of Religious and Secular Practices: A Mixed Method Analysis	5
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).	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
Relationships between right-wing authoritarianism and spirituality in Japan.	5
An examination of the factor structure of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) in atheist and Christian samples.	5
The social pain of religious deidentification: Religious dones conceal their identity and feel less belonging in religious cultures.	5
Empirical validation of “selflessness” as a neuropsychological foundation of spiritual transcendence.	5
Supplemental Material for Prejudice Among the Religious Majority: A Person-Centered Approach to Prejudice Among Christians in the United States	5
Supplemental Material for The Varieties of Spiritual Ties to Place: A Latent Class Analysis	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
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.	5
Supplemental Material for Religion and Well-Being: What Is the Magnitude and the Practical Significance of the Relationship?	4
Supplemental Material for Are Agnostics Associated With Immorality to the Same Degree as Atheists?	4
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Psychedelic Use by Adults in the United States: Perceived Psychospiritual Benefits and Risks, Including Spiritual Struggles	4
“At its core, Islam is about standing with the oppressed”: Exploring transgender Muslims’ religious resilience.	4
The language of religious and secular practices: A mixed method analysis.	4
Do peers mediate the association between religiosity and the alcohol use of Indonesian Muslim adolescents?	4
Supplemental Material for Life Loses Some Meaning After Leaving Religion	4
Supplemental Material for Is Belief Priming Associated With Prosocial Intentions? Experimental Evidence From Turkey	4
Supplemental Material for The RSS-14: Development and Preliminary Validation of a 14-item Form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale	4
Conservation of resources theory and spirituality at work: When a resource is not always a resource.	4
Religiosity, spirituality, national narcissism, and prejudice toward refugees and sexual minorities in Poland.	4
Supplemental Material for Differentiating Personified, Supernatural, and Abstract Views of God Across Three Cognitive Domains	3
The codevelopment of contingent self-worth and religious engagement in U.S. college students.	3
The Divine Forgiveness Questionnaire: Developing and validating a measure of the experience of God’s forgiveness across the abrahamic religions.	3
Religion-justified childhood maltreatment and adult psychological maladjustment.	3
Supplemental Material for An Investigation of the Construct Validity of Spiritual Readiness in a Sample of Active Duty Army Personnel	3
Supplemental Material for Spirituality and Meaning-Making Across Contexts: Structural Topic Modeling of the Fetzer Spirituality Study in the United States	3
Are agnostics associated with immorality to the same degree as atheists?	3
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.	3
Supplemental Material for The Feeling Is Not Mutual: Religious Belief Predicts Compatibility Between Science and Religion, but Scientific Belief Predicts Conflict	3
Supplemental Material for Torn at the Seams: Moral Struggles Surrounding Same-Sex Relationships in Christian-Raised Individuals Reporting Same-Sex Attraction	3
Supplemental Material for Nuanced Associations of Maternal Religious Beliefs and Patriarchal Values With Children’s Academic Achievement	3
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Relationship Between Religious Motivations and Purpose: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Approach	3
Divine forgiveness and psychological health: The role of divine intervention.	3
Supplemental Material for Religious Service Attendance and Common Mental Disorders and Well-Being: Causal Effects Based on a Longitudinal Marginal Structural Model Approach	3
Supplemental Material for Attitudes Toward Aging and Happiness Among Chinese Older Adults: Spirituality as a Mediator	3
Examining the relationship between awe, spirituality, and religiosity.	3
Black–white biracial Christians, discrimination, and mental health: A moderated mediation model of church support and religious coping.	3
Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.	3
Exploring mindfulness, compassion, caring for bliss, gratitude, forgiveness, and generosity in relation to college students’ genuine happiness: A two-wave longitudinal study.	2
“Prayer is universal”: How integrative faith practices enable Indigenous peoples’ persistence and resistance to transcend historical oppression.	2
Supplemental Material for Not as Good as I Would Like to Be: Moral Self-Discrepancy, Religiosity, Spirituality, and Mental Health	2
Disclosure of afterdeath communication: A mixed-methods approach.	2
How does psychedelic use relate to aspects of religiosity/spirituality? Preregistered report from a birth cohort study and a prospective longitudinal study.	2
Supplemental Material for Meaning Making Enhances Gratitude to God: The Importance of Spiritual Appraisals	2
Towards a psychology of divine forgiveness.	2
Supplemental Material for Daily Spiritual Experiences and Purpose in Life: The Mediating Role of Loneliness and Moderating Role of Satisfaction With Social and Intimate Relationships	2
Psychological symptoms in Arab American women: Adverse childhood experiences, racism, and the role of religiosity.	2
Lay theories of mating interest and mate retention strategies for atheists and theists in the Southern United States.	2
Nuanced associations of maternal religious beliefs and patriarchal values with children’s academic achievement.	2
Worlds apart? Atheist, agnostic, and humanist worldviews in three European countries.	2
The protective role of identity integration against internalized sexual prejudice for religious gay men.	2
A meta-analytic comparison of longitudinal changes in scores on the Religious Spiritual and Struggles Scale and mental health symptom measures.	2
Sanctifying suffering and fostering self-forgiveness: Exploring pathways to well-being in chronic pain management.	2
Supplemental Material for When Catholic and Polish Identity Goals Meet: Goal Overlap via a Sense of Belonging	2
Many reasons for religious doubt: Links with doubt struggles, mental health, and an open, humble, questing orientation.	2
Self-transcendence through self-inhibition?: God primes reduce self-accessibility.	2
Supplemental Material for Dimensionality of Scrupulosity and Its Associations With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Sample: A Network Approach	2
Is belief priming associated with prosocial intentions? Experimental evidence from Turkey.	2
The role of holistic religiosity on mental health and mental illness: A global study of Muslims.	2
Disagreeing well: The role of virtues among Christians in conflict in the United States.	2
When catholic and polish identity goals meet: Goal overlap via a sense of belonging.	1
Why do the devout remain devoted? Exploring religious expectations and relational compensators.	1
Parent religiosity as a protective and promotive factor in reducing future arrest in youth with antisocial and conventional peers.	1
Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality.	1
Attitudes toward genomic health care among Christian dones in the United States.	1

Spiritual harm and abuse in religious deidentification from ultra-Orthodox Judaism.	1
Supplemental Material for Affordances of Costly Religious Practices for Mating	1
Supplemental Material for Meaning in Science as a Response to Existential Threat	1
Supplemental Material for Icons and Paintings: Differences in Psychological Distance, Empathy, and the Feeling of Personal Communication	1
Call and response: A six-wave study of bidirectional links between religiosity and spirituality among Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan.	1
Supplemental Material for Attitudes Toward Genomic Health Care Among Christian Dones in the United States	1
Sixty years of studying the sacred: Auditing and advancing the psychology of religion and spirituality.	1
Parents with greater religiosity lie less to their children.	1
The Self-Transcendence Experience Scale: Extracting core constructs.	1
What are the core features and dimensions of “spirituality”? Applying a partial prototype analysis to understand how laypeople mentally represent spirituality as a concept.	1
Correction to “The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on spiritual well-being and hope in patients with breast cancer: A randomized controlled trial” by Wang et al. (2024).	1
Approach, disengagement, protest, and suppression: Four behaviors toward God in the context of religious/spiritual struggle.	1
What factors buffer the effects of parent–adolescent religious discrepancy to preserve parent–child connectedness?	1
Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews.	1
Supplemental Material for In the Wake of Religious Conversions: Differences in Cognition and Emotion Across Three Religious Communities of an Indigenous Tribe in Malaysia	1
Supplemental Material for Religious Contingent Self-Worth in U.S. Christians: A Latent Profile Analysis	1
Between- and within-person effects of divine forgiveness on depression, rumination, and flourishing.	1
Meaning in science as a response to existential threat.	1
Acknowledgment	1
Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life.	1
Effects of prayer frequency and orientations on distress and well-being: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Indonesian adults.	1
Parents’ spiritual struggles and stress: Associations with mental health and cognitive well-being following a neonatal intensive care unit experience.	1
Fallout of faith in Iran: How religious leaders’ hypocrisy undermines beliefs while parents’ devotion sustains it.	1
Religious head versus heart beliefs: Measurement development and validation.	1
Supplemental Material for What Must I Do to Be Forgiven? U.S. Christian Adults’ Perceptions of the Necessary Preconditions for Divine Forgiveness	1
The lived religion of grace: Exploring diverse Christian narratives.	1
Religiosity and mistreatment among Christian and Muslim Arab Americans.	1
Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection: A preregistered virtual reality study.	1
Perceived parental religiosity as a predictor of depression and substance use among LGBTQ+ individuals: The mediating role of perceived familial stigma.	1
Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language.	1
The temporal relationship between religious motivations and purpose: A cross-lagged panel model approach.	1
A mixed-methods study of communing with and complaining to the divine: Imagined conversations with god among undergraduates reporting religious and spiritual struggles.	1
Dimensionality of scrupulosity and its associations with obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in a nonclinical sample: A network approach.	1
Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men.	1
Young, Black, Muslim American: An intersectional lens to understanding emerging adult religious experiences.	1
Supplemental Material for The Divine Forgiveness Questionnaire: Developing and Validating a Measure of the Experience of God’s Forgiveness Across the Abrahamic Religions	1
Shades of Black: Gendered denominational variation in depression symptoms among Black Christians.	1
You shall go forth with joy: Religion and aspirational judgments about emotion.	1
Religiosity as a predictor of worry during stressful periods of uncertainty.	1
The power of presence: Well-being and biopsychosocial effects of virtual versus in-person religious services.	1