Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is 6. 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
Acknowledgment26
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.26
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)26
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.25
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.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
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.16
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.16
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
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?15
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
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
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
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.13
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
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
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.11
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 Is Grace Amazing or Old Wine in a New Bottle? Psychometric Development of the Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale (PEGS)10
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
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis9
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
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
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
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.7
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
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
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