Religion and Psychology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Hope that is seen is no hope at all:" theological constructions of hope in psychotherapy. 
  • "It's medically proven!": Assessing the dissemination of religion and health research. 
  • "You need a song to bring you through": the use of religious songs to manage stressful life events. 
  • 'Mixed blessings': parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective. 
  • A randomized trial of the effect of prayer on depression and anxiety. 
  • A retrospective study of the concept of spirituality as understood by recovering individuals. 
  • A spiritual problem? Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' interpretations of medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • Aging, health, and the "electronic church". 
  • An overview of the history and current status of clergy health. 
  • Association of Religious Involvement and Suicide. 
  • Associations between dimensions of religious commitment and mental health reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry: 1978-1989. 
  • Attendance at religious services, interleukin-6, and other biological parameters of immune function in older adults. 
  • Attitudes and behaviors that differentiate clergy with positive mental health from those with burnout 
  • Belief in life after death and mental health: findings from a national survey. 
  • Beliefs about God, psychiatric symptoms, and evolutionary psychiatry. 
  • Can group interventions facilitate forgiveness of an ex-spouse? A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Case discussion--religion and coping with natural disaster. 
  • Commentary: why do research on spirituality and health, and what do the results mean? 
  • Concerns about measuring "spirituality" in research. 
  • Coping strategies utilized by adolescents with end stage renal disease 
  • Could spirituality and religion promote stress resilience in survivors of childhood trauma? 
  • Crossing the secular divide: government and faith-based organizations as partners in health. 
  • Determinants of care seeking for mental health problems in rural Haiti: culture, cost, or competency. 
  • Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation. 
  • Do people turn to religion in times of stress?: an examination of change in religiousness among elderly, medically ill patients. 
  • EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS VERSUS STANDARD COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY ON OPTIMISM IN PERSONS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION AND CHRONIC MEDICAL ILLNESS. 
  • Effects of religious vs. standard cognitive behavioral therapy on therapeutic alliance: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Episcopal measure of faith tradition: a context-specific approach to measuring religiousness. 
  • Examining faith-based collaboration in U.S. States' suicide prevention guidelines. 
  • Explanatory models and mental health treatment: is vodou an obstacle to psychiatric treatment in rural Haiti? 
  • Exploring the Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Mental Health and Coping in a Group of Canadian Psychiatric Outpatients. 
  • Exploring the relationship between spirituality, coping, and pain. 
  • Faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism subconstructs in middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • For God (or) country: the hydraulic relation between government instability and belief in religious sources of control. 
  • Frequency of Church Attendance and Blood Pressure Elevation 
  • Gender differences in the association between religious involvement and depression: the Cache County (Utah) study. 
  • God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems. 
  • Health behaviour, depression and religiosity in older patients admitted to intermediate care. 
  • Hepatitis C and depressive symptoms: psychological and social factors matter more than liver injury. 
  • Hitting the target: why existing measures of "religiousness" are really reverse-scored measures of "secularism". 
  • How does religious faith contribute to recovery from depression? 
  • Illuminating meaning and transforming issues of spirituality in HIV disease and AIDS: an application of Parse's theory of human becoming. 
  • Investigating Denominational and Church Attendance Differences in Obesity and Diabetes in Black Christian Men and Women. 
  • Julia Rush's diary: coping with loss in the early nineteenth century. 
  • Leighton's theory of sentiments: explorations and speculations on barriers to interpersonal forgiveness. 
  • Measurement of materialism and spiritualism in substance abuse research. 
  • Mental disorders, religion and spirituality 1990 to 2010: a systematic evidence-based review. 
  • Missed opportunities for religious organizations to support people living with HIV/AIDS: findings from Tanzania. 
  • Modeling the cross-sectional relationships between religion, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms. 
  • Moral injury from war and other severe trauma. 
  • Nursing home care: exploring the role of religiousness in the mental health, quality of life and stress of formal caregivers. 
  • Patterns of religious practice and belief in the last year of life. 
  • Person-Centered Mindfulness: A Culturally and Spiritually Sensitive Approach to Clinical Practice. 
  • Pervasive Muslim-Hindu fertility differences in India. 
  • Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' willingness to refer to religious mental health providers. 
  • Private prayer and optimism in middle-aged and older patients awaiting cardiac surgery. 
  • Private religious activity and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Psychometric properties of the Persian spiritual coping strategies scale in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Randomness, attributions of arousal, and belief in god. 
  • Reading the Bible for guidance, comfort, and strength during stressful life events. 
  • Relationships of religion and spirituality to glycemic control in Black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Religion and Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers Across Four Religious Traditions and Five Global Contexts. 
  • Religion and HIV in Tanzania: influence of religious beliefs on HIV stigma, disclosure, and treatment attitudes. 
  • Religion and anxiety treatments in primary care patients. 
  • Religion and coping with serious medical illness. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 
  • Religion and medicine II: religion, mental health, and related behaviors. 
  • Religion and remission of depression in medical inpatients with heart failure/pulmonary disease. 
  • Religion and the presence and severity of depression in older adults. 
  • Religion index for psychiatric research. 
  • Religion, Purpose in Life, Social Support, and Psychological Distress in Chinese University Students. 
  • Religion, sense of calling, and the practice of medicine: findings from a national survey of primary care physicians and psychiatrists. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: current controversies and future directions. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health: what we know and why this is a tough topic to research. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and their relevance to medicine: an update. 
  • Religion/spirituality and health among elderly African Americans and Hispanics. 
  • Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Religiosity and remission of depression in medically ill older patients. 
  • Religiosity and self-rated health among Latin American and Caribbean elders. 
  • Religiosity as a protective factor in depressive disorder. 
  • Religiosity is an important part of coping with grief in pregnancy after a traumatic second trimester loss. 
  • Religiosity may help preserve the cortisol rhythm in women with stress-related illness. 
  • Religiosity, depression, and quality of life in bipolar disorder: a two-year prospective study. 
  • Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Religious Coping Among Adults Caring for Family Members with Serious Mental Illness. 
  • Religious Involvement and Adaptation in Female Family Caregivers. 
  • Religious Involvement and Telomere Length in Women Family Caregivers. 
  • Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer: the moderating effect of race. 
  • Religious affiliation and major depression. 
  • Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers. 
  • Religious affiliation and suicidality among college students in China: A cross-sectional study across six provinces. 
  • Religious affiliations in mental health research samples as compared with national samples. 
  • Religious behaviors and death anxiety in later life. 
  • Religious belief as compensatory control. 
  • Religious beliefs and alcohol control policies: a Brazilian nationwide study. 
  • Religious beliefs, practices and mental health outcomes: what is the research question? 
  • Religious commitment and health status: a review of the research and implications for family medicine. 
  • Religious coping among women with obstetric fistula in Tanzania. 
  • Religious coping and cognitive symptoms of depression in elderly medical patients. 
  • Religious coping and depression among elderly, hospitalized medically ill men. 
  • Religious coping and quality of life among individuals living with schizophrenia. 
  • Religious coping in the nursing home: a biopsychosocial model. 
  • Religious coping methods as predictors of psychological, physical and spiritual outcomes among medically ill elderly patients: a two-year longitudinal study. 
  • Religious coping, ethnicity, and ambulatory blood pressure. 
  • Religious involvement and mental disorders in mainland china. 
  • Religious involvement, suicidal ideation and behavior in mainland China. 
  • Religious perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and families. 
  • Religious practices and alcoholism in a southern adult population. 
  • Religious service attendance and major depression: a case of reverse causality? 
  • Religious vs. conventional cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression in persons with chronic medical illness: a pilot randomized trial. 
  • Religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices and the ethics of mental health research in less wealthy countries. 
  • Religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy: a new method of treatment for major depression in patients with chronic medical illness. 
  • Religiousness and mental health: a review. 
  • Research on religion and mental health in later life: a review and commentary. 
  • Research on religion and serious mental illness. 
  • Research on religion, spirituality, and mental health: a review. 
  • Sexual Orientation, Religious Coping, and Drug Use in a Sample of HIV-Infected African-American Men Living in the Southern USA. 
  • Social ecology of child soldiers: child, family, and community determinants of mental health, psychosocial well-being, and reintegration in Nepal. 
  • Social support and religiosity as coping strategies for anxiety in hospitalized cardiac patients. 
  • Social versus individual motivation: implications for normative definitions of religious orientation. 
  • Spirituality and mental health: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 
  • Spirituality and religion in psychiatry practice: parameters and implications. 
  • Spirituality or religiosity: is there any difference? 
  • Suicide in the elderly: case discussion. 
  • Symptom experience and self-care strategies among healthy, midlife African-American women. 
  • Systematic analysis of research on religious variables in four major psychiatric journals, 1978-1982. 
  • The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL): validation and reliability of the Farsi version. 
  • The Effect of Holy Qur'an Recitation on Anxiety in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • The Effect of Holy Qur'an Recitation on Depressive Symptoms in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • The Georgia Centenarian Study: comments from friends. 
  • The Stressors of Clergy Children Inventory: reliability and validity. 
  • The WORD (wholeness, oneness, righteousness, deliverance): a faith-based weight-loss program utilizing a community-based participatory research approach. 
  • The association between spiritual and religious involvement and depressive symptoms in a Canadian population. 
  • The effect of prayer on depression and anxiety: maintenance of positive influence one year after prayer intervention. 
  • The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society. 
  • The importance of spirituality/religion and health-related quality of life among individuals with HIV/AIDS. 
  • The many methods of religious coping: development and initial validation of the RCOPE. 
  • The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies. 
  • The psychological well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS and the role of religious coping and social support. 
  • The use of religion and other emotion-regulating coping strategies among older adults. 
  • To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. 
  • Trajectories of Religious Change From Adolescence to Adulthood, and Demographic, Environmental, and Psychiatric Correlates. 
  • Trauma history of sheltered battered women 
  • Typologies of religiousness/spirituality: implications for health and well-being. 
  • Utilization of hospital-based chaplain services among newly diagnosed male Veterans Affairs colorectal cancer patients. 
  • Validation of the Duke Religion Index: DUREL (Portuguese version). 
  • Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups. 
  • Ways of Protecting Religious Older Adults from the Consequences of COVID-19. 
  • Why John wasn't healed by prayer: perspectives across disciplines. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dedert, Eric, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Nieuwsma, Jason A, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Thielman, Samuel B., Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Van Cappellen, Patty, Assistant Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Zullig, Leah L, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine