Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Religious and spiritual struggles and their links to psychological adjustment: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.33
Religious identity and psychological well-being among middle-eastern migrants in Australia: The mediating role of perceived social support, social connectedness, and perceived discrimination.31
The psychology of religion and spirituality: How big the tent?27
Integrating spirituality and mental health: Perspectives of adults receiving public mental health services in California.27
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.23
Theistic relational spirituality: Development, dynamics, health, and transformation.22
The role of religiousness and beliefs about sexuality in well-being among sexual minority mormons.22
Sex guilt or sanctification? The indirect role of religiosity on sexual satisfaction.20
Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality.18
From parent to child: Family factors that influence faith transmission.18
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.17
Apostasy and conversion: Attachment orientations and individual differences in the process of religious change.17
Religious/spiritual struggles and depression during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in the global south: Evidence of moderation by positive religious coping and hope.17
Joint religiosity and married couples’ sexual satisfaction.16
Prayer and internal dialogical activity: How do they predict well-being?15
A matter of faith: The role of religion, doubt, and personality in emerging adult mental health.15
Green as the gospel: The power of stewardship messages to improve climate change attitudes.15
The role of religious fundamentalism and tightness-looseness in promoting collective narcissism and extreme group behavior.14
Daily religious coping buffers the stress–affect relationship and benefits overall metabolic health in older adults.14
Religious and spiritual struggles as a mediator of the link between stressful life events and psychological adjustment in a nationwide sample.13
Does think mean the same thing as believe? Linguistic insights into religious cognition.13
A mixed-methods approach to understanding the role of religion and spirituality in healthcare provider well-being.13
Towards a psychology of divine forgiveness.12
“At its core, Islam is about standing with the oppressed”: Exploring transgender Muslims’ religious resilience.12
Daily measures of religious/spiritual struggles: Relations to depression, anxiety, satisfaction with life, and meaning.12
What makes life meaningful for theists and atheists?12
Oneness beliefs and their effect on life satisfaction.12
(Ir)reconcilable identities: Stories of religion and faith for sexual and gender minority refugees who fled from the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia to the European Union.11
Measures of God representations: Theoretical framework and critical review.11
Religiosity and volunteering over time: Religious service attendance is associated with the likelihood of volunteering, and religious importance with time spent volunteering.11
Pulling away from religion: Religious/spiritual struggles and religious disengagement among college students.11
A prospective study of clergy spiritual well-being, depressive symptoms, and occupational distress.11
Religiosity and positive religious coping as predictors of Indonesian Muslim adolescents’ externalizing behavior and loneliness.10
Uniting and dividing influences of religion in marriage among highly religious couples.10
Evaluating the measure of diverse adolescent spirituality in samples of Mexican and Salvadoran youth.10
How do religious congregations affect congregants’ attitudes toward lesbian women and gay men?10
Religious and spiritual struggles among transgender and gender-nonconforming adults.10
Examining the relationship between awe, spirituality, and religiosity.10
A curvilinear relationship between clear beliefs about God and self-concept clarity.9
Religious sexual minorities, belongingness, and suicide risk: Does it matter where belongingness comes from?9
Going beyond positive and negative: Clarifying relationships of specific religious coping styles with posttraumatic outcomes.9
Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.9
How parents balance desire for religious continuity with honoring children’s religious agency.9
Mediated association between spirituality and life satisfaction in chronically ill undergraduate students.9
Are atheists unprejudiced? Forms of nonbelief and prejudice toward antiliberal and mainstream religious groups.8
Differential effects from aspects of religion on female genital mutilation/cutting.8
Valid assessment of spiritual quality of life with the WHOQOL-SRPB BREF across religious, spiritual, and secular persons: A psychometric study.8
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.8
Who are the religious “dones?”: A cross-cultural latent profile analysis of formerly religious individuals.8
Measuring interfaith spirituality: Initial validation and psychometrics.8
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.8
Religious/spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in the COVID-19 era: Does the belief in divine control and religious attendance matter?8
A cross-sectional investigation of divine struggles and suicide risk among men in early recovery from substance use disorders.8
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.8
Uniting and dividing influences of religion on parent–child relationships in highly religious families.8
Understanding the roles of religious comfort and strain on depressive symptoms in an inpatient psychiatric setting.7
Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language.7
Do you need religion to enjoy the benefits of Church services? Social bonding, morality and quality of life among religious and secular congregations.7
Black–white biracial Christians, discrimination, and mental health: A moderated mediation model of church support and religious coping.7
Religious coping and depressive symptoms among Black Americans living with HIV: An intersectional approach.7
Adolescent suicide ideation in Utah: The role of religion and family.7
Job-spouse demands and work–family conflict: Role of religiosity and spirituality.7
The role of religiousness and spirituality in health-related quality of life of persons living with HIV: A latent class analysis.7
Parental stress and religious coping by mothers of children with autism.7
Will jurors believe nonbelievers? Perceptions of atheist rape victims in the courtroom.6
The lived religion of grace: Exploring diverse Christian narratives.6
Dual pathways from religiousness to the virtue of patience versus anxiety among elite athletes.6
Karma and God: Convergent and divergent mental representations of supernatural norm enforcement.6
In the wake of religious conversions: Differences in cognition and emotion across three religious communities of an indigenous tribe in Malaysia.6
The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample.6
Drawn to the light: Predicting religiosity using “God is light” metaphor.6
Disbelief, disengagement, discontinuance, and disaffiliation: An integrative framework for the study of religious deidentification.6
What are the core features and dimensions of “spirituality”? Applying a partial prototype analysis to understand how laypeople mentally represent spirituality as a concept.6
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.6
Call and response: A six-wave study of bidirectional links between religiosity and spirituality among Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan.6
Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life.5
Cult conversion from the perspective of families: Implications for prevention and psychological intervention.5
(Life) satisfaction guaranteed? Subjective well-being attenuates religious attendance–life satisfaction association.5
Religiosity and joint activities of husbands and wives in enduring marriages.5
Effects of devotional prayer and secular meditation on cardiovascular response to a faith challenge among Christians.5
Implicit and explicit attitudes towards God and life satisfaction.5
Approach, disengagement, protest, and suppression: Four behaviors toward God in the context of religious/spiritual struggle.5
Associations between spirituality and mental health in women exposed to adversity.5
Mothers’ perceptions of the role of religion in parent–child communication about a death in the family.5
Moral stereotypes, moral self-image, and religiosity.5
The many faces of evangelicalism: Identifying subgroups using latent class analysis.5
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.5
Measuring Muslim religiosity and spirituality: Measurement invariance of Muslim attitudes toward religion and Muslim experiential religiousness scales across China, Iran, Malaysia, and Pakistan.5
What do nonreligious nonbelievers believe in? Secular worldviews around the world.5
Reaching resolution: The effect of prayer on psychological perspective and emotional acceptance.5
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.5
0.03516697883606