Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Article	Citations
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.	64
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.	30
Spirituality, quality of life and frailty in community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years.	29
Acknowledgment	28
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.	27
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.	27
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)	27
Religiosity, spirituality, and obsessive-compulsive disorder-related symptoms in clinical and nonclinical samples.	26
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image	25
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.	23
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.	18
Investigating the relationship between spiritual transcendence, personal religiosity, and mental health in Roman Catholic clergy and nuns.	17
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?	17
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.	17
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men	16
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Indebtedness to God: A New Construct in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality	16
Supplemental Material for Do You Need Religion to Enjoy the Benefits of Church Services? Social Bonding, Morality and Quality of Life Among Religious and Secular Congregations	16
Acknowledgment	16
Relationship between numinous constructs and values.	15
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.	15
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.	14
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.	14
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit	14
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs	13

The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.	13
A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality: What predicts it and who benefits?	13
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.	13
Karma rewards me and punishes you: Self–other divergences in karma beliefs.	13
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures	13
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities	13
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.	12
Religious/spiritual struggles and depression during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in the global south: Evidence of moderation by positive religious coping and hope.	12
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.	12
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 “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression	10
Time-varying and gender differences in religious socialization and associations with Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity.	10
Supplemental Material for Reducing Hostility, Increasing Warmth: Varying Ways Religion Relates to Parenting	10
Supplemental Material for Children’s Beliefs About God’s Intervention in Everyday Life	10
Encompassing marvel of body and spirit: Daoist mysticism and interpretation.	10
Supplemental Material for Is Grace Amazing or Old Wine in a New Bottle? Psychometric Development of the Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale (PEGS)	9
Supplemental Material for Religious and Spiritual Struggles Around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections	9
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis	9
Supplemental Material for Approach, Disengagement, Protest, and Suppression: Four Behaviors Toward God in the Context of Religious/Spiritual Struggle	9
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.	8
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.	8
Family religiosity, support, and psychological well-being for sexual minority atheist individuals.	8
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	8
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.	8
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.	8
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.	8
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.	8
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.	8
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.	8
Spiritual struggles and suicidal ideation in veterans seeking outpatient treatment: The mediating role of perceived burdensomeness.	7
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.	7
Supplemental Material for Karma and God: Convergent and Divergent Mental Representations of Supernatural Norm Enforcement	7
The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time.	7
Ours is not to reason why: Information seeking across domains.	7
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.	7
Children’s beliefs about God’s intervention in everyday life.	7
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.	7
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.	7
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.	7
The role of karmic beliefs in immanent justice reasoning.	7
Religious/spiritual struggles and life satisfaction among sexual minorities.	6
Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.	6
Supplemental Material for Encompassing Marvel of Body and Spirit: Daoist Mysticism and Interpretation	6
Supplemental Material for Religious Identity and Intersectional Privilege: (A)Symmetric Biases in Christians and Atheists Are Unaffected by Prompts to Consider Religious and Racial Privilege	6
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.	6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.	6
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose	6
Religiousness and homonegativity in congregations: The role of individual, congregational, and clergy characteristics.	6
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It	6
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.	6

Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.	5
Sexual identity and religious endorsement: The role of image of god and belief in punitive religious constructs.	5
Supplemental Material for Religiosity, Spirituality, National Narcissism, and Prejudice Toward Refugees and Sexual Minorities in Poland	5
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.	5
Relationships between right-wing authoritarianism and spirituality in Japan.	5
Acknowledgment	5
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).	5
A camel through the eye of a needle: The influence of the prosperity gospel on financial risk-taking, optimistic bias, and positive emotion.	5
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.	5
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.	5
Supplemental Material for Prejudice Among the Religious Majority: A Person-Centered Approach to Prejudice Among Christians in the United States	5
Supplemental Material for Worlds Apart? Atheist, Agnostic, and Humanist Worldviews in Three European Countries	5
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report	5
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.	5
Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.	5
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”.	5
An examination of the factor structure of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) in atheist and Christian samples.	5
Supplemental Material for The RSS-14: Development and Preliminary Validation of a 14-item Form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale	4
Supplemental Material for The Language of Religious and Secular Practices: A Mixed Method Analysis	4
The social pain of religious deidentification: Religious dones conceal their identity and feel less belonging in religious cultures.	4
Plastic piety: A mixed-methods study of the connection between religiosity, cosmetic surgery, and body image.	4
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Psychedelic Use by Adults in the United States: Perceived Psychospiritual Benefits and Risks, Including Spiritual Struggles	4
Supernatural operating rules: How people envision and experience God, the devil, ghosts/spirits, fate/destiny, karma, and luck.	4
Supplemental Material for The Varieties of Spiritual Ties to Place: A Latent Class Analysis	4
Conservation of resources theory and spirituality at work: When a resource is not always a resource.	4
Supplemental Material for Are Agnostics Associated With Immorality to the Same Degree as Atheists?	4
Do peers mediate the association between religiosity and the alcohol use of Indonesian Muslim adolescents?	4
“At its core, Islam is about standing with the oppressed”: Exploring transgender Muslims’ religious resilience.	4
Supplemental Material for Religion and Well-Being: What Is the Magnitude and the Practical Significance of the Relationship?	4
Existentially threatening stimuli increase religious cognitive dissonance among the less intrinsically religious.	4
Religiosity, spirituality, national narcissism, and prejudice toward refugees and sexual minorities in Poland.	4
Supplemental Material for Is Belief Priming Associated With Prosocial Intentions? Experimental Evidence From Turkey	4
The language of religious and secular practices: A mixed method analysis.	4
Supplemental Material for Torn at the Seams: Moral Struggles Surrounding Same-Sex Relationships in Christian-Raised Individuals Reporting Same-Sex Attraction	3
Supplemental Material for Spirituality and Meaning-Making Across Contexts: Structural Topic Modeling of the Fetzer Spirituality Study in the United States	3
The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample.	3
Apostasy and conversion: Attachment orientations and individual differences in the process of religious change.	3
Psychological symptoms in Arab American women: Adverse childhood experiences, racism, and the role of religiosity.	3
Introduction to special section on current advances in the intersection of religiousness/spirituality and LGBTQ+ studies.	3
Meaning behind the movement: Attributing sacred meaning to fluid and nonfluid arm movements increases self-transcendent positive emotions and buffers the effects of nonfluidity on positive emotions.	3
“Prayer is universal”: How integrative faith practices enable Indigenous peoples’ persistence and resistance to transcend historical oppression.	3
Supplemental Material for Differentiating Personified, Supernatural, and Abstract Views of God Across Three Cognitive Domains	3
Supplemental Material for Religious Coping With Interpersonal Hurts: Psychosocial Correlates of the Brief RCOPE in Four Non-Western Countries	3
Lay theories of mating interest and mate retention strategies for atheists and theists in the Southern United States.	3
Nuanced associations of maternal religious beliefs and patriarchal values with children’s academic achievement.	3
Supplemental Material for How Is Forgivingness Linked to Religiousness, Pessimism, and Social Cynicism? A Longitudinal Investigation for Directional Relationships	3
Black–white biracial Christians, discrimination, and mental health: A moderated mediation model of church support and religious coping.	3
Supplemental Material for Nuanced Associations of Maternal Religious Beliefs and Patriarchal Values With Children’s Academic Achievement	3
Divine forgiveness and psychological health: The role of divine intervention.	3
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Relationship Between Religious Motivations and Purpose: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Approach	3
Are agnostics associated with immorality to the same degree as atheists?	3
Examining the relationship between awe, spirituality, and religiosity.	3
Differential effects from aspects of religion on female genital mutilation/cutting.	3
Self-transcendence through self-inhibition?: God primes reduce self-accessibility.	3
Supplemental Material for The Feeling Is Not Mutual: Religious Belief Predicts Compatibility Between Science and Religion, but Scientific Belief Predicts Conflict	3
Is belief priming associated with prosocial intentions? Experimental evidence from Turkey.	2
Supplemental Material for Fundamentalism and Intrinsic Religiosity as Factors in Well-Being and Social Connectedness: An Iranian Study	2
The role of holistic religiosity on mental health and mental illness: A global study of Muslims.	2
Worlds apart? Atheist, agnostic, and humanist worldviews in three European countries.	2
Parents with greater religiosity lie less to their children.	2
Fallout of faith in Iran: How religious leaders’ hypocrisy undermines beliefs while parents’ devotion sustains it.	2
Disclosure of afterdeath communication: A mixed-methods approach.	2
Supplemental Material for Daily Spiritual Experiences and Purpose in Life: The Mediating Role of Loneliness and Moderating Role of Satisfaction With Social and Intimate Relationships	2
Sanctifying suffering and fostering self-forgiveness: Exploring pathways to well-being in chronic pain management.	2
Towards a psychology of divine forgiveness.	2
You shall go forth with joy: Religion and aspirational judgments about emotion.	2
Religious and spiritual struggles among transgender and gender-nonconforming adults.	2
Supplemental Material for Dimensionality of Scrupulosity and Its Associations With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Sample: A Network Approach	2
The interrelationships between spiritual resources and work engagement.	2
Supplemental Material for When Catholic and Polish Identity Goals Meet: Goal Overlap via a Sense of Belonging	2
Disagreeing well: The role of virtues among Christians in conflict in the United States.	2
The protective role of identity integration against internalized sexual prejudice for religious gay men.	2
Supplemental Material for Meaning Making Enhances Gratitude to God: The Importance of Spiritual Appraisals	2
How does psychedelic use relate to aspects of religiosity/spirituality? Preregistered report from a birth cohort study and a prospective longitudinal study.	2
What are the core features and dimensions of “spirituality”? Applying a partial prototype analysis to understand how laypeople mentally represent spirituality as a concept.	1
Theistic relational spirituality: Development, dynamics, health, and transformation.	1
When catholic and polish identity goals meet: Goal overlap via a sense of belonging.	1
Why do the devout remain devoted? Exploring religious expectations and relational compensators.	1
Call and response: A six-wave study of bidirectional links between religiosity and spirituality among Pakistani Muslims during Ramadan.	1
Correction to “The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on spiritual well-being and hope in patients with breast cancer: A randomized controlled trial” by Wang et al. (2024).	1

Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection: A preregistered virtual reality study.	1
Finances, religion, and the FAAR model: How religion exacerbates and alleviates financial stress.	1
Effects of prayer frequency and orientations on distress and well-being: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Indonesian adults.	1
Supplemental Material for Meaning in Science as a Response to Existential Threat	1
Supplemental Material for Icons and Paintings: Differences in Psychological Distance, Empathy, and the Feeling of Personal Communication	1
Young, Black, Muslim American: An intersectional lens to understanding emerging adult religious experiences.	1
Intrinsic religiosity attenuates the negative relationship between social disconnectedness and meaning in life.	1
Green as the gospel: The power of stewardship messages to improve climate change attitudes.	1
Dimensionality of scrupulosity and its associations with obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in a nonclinical sample: A network approach.	1
Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality.	1
A mixed-methods study of communing with and complaining to the divine: Imagined conversations with god among undergraduates reporting religious and spiritual struggles.	1
Supplemental Material for In the Wake of Religious Conversions: Differences in Cognition and Emotion Across Three Religious Communities of an Indigenous Tribe in Malaysia	1
Meaning in science as a response to existential threat.	1
Perceived parental religiosity as a predictor of depression and substance use among LGBTQ+ individuals: The mediating role of perceived familial stigma.	1
The temporal relationship between religious motivations and purpose: A cross-lagged panel model approach.	1
Parent religiosity as a protective and promotive factor in reducing future arrest in youth with antisocial and conventional peers.	1
Approach, disengagement, protest, and suppression: Four behaviors toward God in the context of religious/spiritual struggle.	1
Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews.	1
Shades of Black: Gendered denominational variation in depression symptoms among Black Christians.	1
Struggles reported integrating intense spiritual experiences: Results from a survey using the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences Inventory.	1
Measuring interfaith spirituality: Initial validation and psychometrics.	1
Religiosity as a predictor of worry during stressful periods of uncertainty.	1
What factors buffer the effects of parent–adolescent religious discrepancy to preserve parent–child connectedness?	1
Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men.	1
The lived religion of grace: Exploring diverse Christian narratives.	1
Sixty years of studying the sacred: Auditing and advancing the psychology of religion and spirituality.	1
Supplemental Material for Religious Contingent Self-Worth in U.S. Christians: A Latent Profile Analysis	1
Religiosity and mistreatment among Christian and Muslim Arab Americans.	1
Beyond beliefs: Multidimensional aspects of religion and spirituality in language.	1
Religious/spiritual struggles and well-being: Examining latent profiles of existential humility across two studies.	1
The Self-Transcendence Experience Scale: Extracting core constructs.	1
Religious head versus heart beliefs: Measurement development and validation.	1