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Results suggest that prayer efficacy, prayers for support, and one form of devotional prayer (asking God for forgiveness) all correlate with higher anxiety, while another form of devotional prayer (praise of God) and prayer expectancies are associated with lower anxiety in the American population.
Aug 1, 2004 · This paper categorizes and critically reviews the current literature on religion and general indices of anxiety in terms of findings linking decreased anxiety to religiosity, increased anxiety to religiosity, and those finding no relation between anxiety and religiosity.
- Andrea K Shreve-Neiger, Barry A Edelstein
- 2004
For example, some research indicates that religiosity can lead to excessive feelings of guilt, fear, shame and death anxiety. 21, 22 Similarly, high levels of religiosity may lead some people to consult religious leaders in lieu of seeking help from a mental health professional in the presence of mental distress. 23.
As Lavric and Fiere (2010) have stated, religious affiliation plays an important role as a moderator in the relation between religiosity and anxiety. The vast majority of the population in the Arab world are Muslims, with a high mean score on religiosity (e.g., Abdel-Khalek and Thorson 2006; Thorson et al. 1997).
May 11, 2021 · We examined differences in mental wellbeing and associations between mental wellbeing and religiosity among the religiously unaffiliated, White and non-White Christians, Muslims of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and other ethnicities, and other minority ethnoreligious groups.
- 10.1093/aje/kwab133
- 2022/01
- Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Jan; 191(1): 20-30.
Dec 3, 2020 · Ritual performance may reduce anxiety and uncertainty (Hinde, Citation 1999) and provide meaning in life. Furthermore, ritual binds individual together and enhances feelings of social support, and it may impact mental well-being through its cathartic effects (Jacobs, Citation 1992 ).
Religious African Americans had better mental health outcomes than religious European Americans . In a web-based study of Arab college students, religiosity was predictive of lower risk of depression for Muslims but not for Christians, in contrast to studies among Arab American adults .
