Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Well-Being
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 4784
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the journal Religion is entitled Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Well-Being. This collection is focused on assembling a selection of contemporary reviews and empirical studies that are grounded in psychological theories and methods that have examined the relationship between religion and well-being (see Abdel-Khalek, 2020 for definitions). The purpose of the present issue is to enrich the scholarly debate and understanding of the variety of different psychological perspectives related to religion and well-being.
Located within the psychology of religion (Hood, Hill, & Spilka, 2018), and specifically within the burgeoning literature on religion and health (Koenig, Al-Zaben, & VanderWeele, 2020; Koenig, King, & Carson, 2012), there has been an ongoing examination of the relationship between religion and well-being. Such research has employed various conceptualisations and operationalisations of both religion and well-being within various cultural and religious settings employing a variety of samples (for example, Abu-Raiya, Sasson, Pargament, et al., 2020; Allen, Ming, & Hyde, 2023; Ardelt & Ferrari, 2019; Boppana & Gross, 2019; Villani, Sorgente, Iannello et al., 2019). In summary, such research has reported a consistent positive relationship between scores on various measures of religion and well-being. However, it has been noted that “… the robustness, universality, and methodological specificity of the religion-well-being relation remains an outstanding question” (p. 4, Hoogeveen, Sarafoglou, Aczel et al., 2022). This Special Issue will explore such matters to enhance the knowledge base pertaining to a better understanding of the psychological perspectives on religion and well-being.
We are pleased to invite you to submit a review or empirical study that is grounded in psychological theories and methods that have examined the relationship between religion and well-being.
In this Special Issue, original reviews and research articles are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Religion and well-being in different cultural contexts.
- Religion and well-being in different religious contexts.
- Religion and well-being in clinical and non-clinical samples.
- Measurement issues concerning religion and well-being.
- Cross-cultural studies examining religion and well-being.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor ([email protected]) or to the Religions editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editor for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
References
Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (2020). Religiosity and well-being. In Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences (pp. 4407-4415). Springer International Publishing.
Abu-Raiya, H., Sasson, T., Pargament, K. I., & Rosmarin, D. H. (2020). Religious coping and health and well-being among Jews and Muslims in Israel. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30(3), 202-215.
Allen, G. K., Ming, M., Hyde, S., Bozzelli, A., Rodgers, G., Sagebin, F. M., & Thompson, M. (2023). Investigating religious commitment, perceived religious oppression, self-esteem, depression, and life satisfaction among Latter-day Saint women. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 1-11.
Ardelt, M., & Ferrari, M. (2019). Effects of wisdom and religiosity on subjective well-being in old age and young adulthood: Exploring the pathways through mastery and purpose in life. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(4), 477-489.
Boppana, S., & Gross, A. M. (2019). The impact of religiosity on the psychological well-being of LGBT Christians. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 23(4), 412-426.
Hood Jr, R. W., Hill, P. C., & Spilka, B. (2018). The psychology of religion: An empirical approach. Guilford Publications.
Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., ... & Nilsonne, G. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1-47.
Koenig, H. G., Al-Zaben, F., & VanderWeele, T. J. (2020). Religion and psychiatry: Recent developments in research. BJPsych Advances, 26(5), 262-272.
Koenig, H. G., King, D., & Carson, V. B. (2012). Handbook of religion and health. Oxford University Press.
Villani, D., Sorgente, A., Iannello, P., & Antonietti, A. (2019). The role of spirituality and religiosity in subjective well-being of individuals with different religious status. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1525.
Prof. Dr. Christopher Alan Lewis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religion
- well-being
- mental health
- culture
- measurement
- psychometrics
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