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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.73
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.34
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)33
Acknowledgment33
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 Flourishing30
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.29
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.29
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image29
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.28
Religiosity, spirituality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-related symptoms in clinical and nonclinical samples.26
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?26
Stressful events, stress level, and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model with secure attachment to god as moderator.23
Superstition makes you less deontological: Explaining the moral function of superstition by compensatory control theory.22
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.20
Relationship between numinous constructs and values.18
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Indebtedness to God: A New Construct in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality18
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures18
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.18
Acknowledgment18
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.16
Not as good as I would like to be: Moral self-discrepancy, religiosity, spirituality, and mental health.16
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men16
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.16
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.15
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit15
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.15
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.14
A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality: What predicts it and who benefits?14
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.14
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities14
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs12
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/spiritual struggles and depression during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in the global south: Evidence of moderation by positive religious coping and hope.11
Supplemental Material for “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression11
Karma rewards me and punishes you: Self–other divergences in karma beliefs.11
Supplemental Material for Reducing Hostility, Increasing Warmth: Varying Ways Religion Relates to Parenting11
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
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 Approach, Disengagement, Protest, and Suppression: Four Behaviors Toward God in the Context of Religious/Spiritual Struggle10
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis10
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
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints10
Supplemental Material for Children’s Beliefs About God’s Intervention in Everyday Life10
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 Religious and Spiritual Struggles Around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections10
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.9
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.9
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.9
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.9
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.9
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.9
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.8
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.8
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.8
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.8
The role of karmic beliefs in immanent justice reasoning.8
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.8
Children’s beliefs about God’s intervention in everyday life.8
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.8
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.7
Supplemental Material for Religion-Justified Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Maladjustment7
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It7
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose7
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
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities.7
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.7
Supplemental Material for Encompassing Marvel of Body and Spirit: Daoist Mysticism and Interpretation7
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
Supplemental Material for Definitions of Meditation Among Lay People: A Mixed Method Examination Considering the Roles of Meditation Experience, Religion, and Spirituality7
A camel through the eye of a needle: The influence of the prosperity gospel on financial risk-taking, optimistic bias, and positive emotion.7
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.7
Spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in veterans seeking outpatient treatment: The mediating role of perceived burdensomeness.7
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.7
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.6
Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.6
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.6
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report6
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.6
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).6
The four horsemen of religious deidentification.6
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.6
Acknowledgment6
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”.6
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.6
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