Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Acknowledgment85
Supplemental Material for The Questionnaire God Representations for Clinical and Scientific Use in the Context of Mental Health Care (QGR-17)42
Transcendent accountability amplifies the link between accountability to people and patience and courage in goal pursuit.39
The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.38
Supplemental Material for Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Students at Traditionally Christian and Nonreligious Institutions of Higher Education37
Supplemental Material for A Longitudinal Study of Racism, Religion/Spirituality, and Health in a Nationwide Sample of Black Americans36
Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.36
The impact of diagnosis and religious orientation on mental illness stigma.32
The development of the Christian Views of Suffering Scale.31
Daily spiritual experiences and self-rated health in the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study: Indirect effects via purpose in life.29
Supplemental Material for Between- and Within-Person Effects of Divine Forgiveness on Depression, Rumination, and Flourishing28
Spiritual transformation through pilgrimage: A grounded theory analysis of experiences in Taiwan, Japan, and Spain.28
Supplemental Material for Plastic Piety: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Connection Between Religiosity, Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Image25
The relationship between religious practices and beliefs and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among transgender and gender diverse adults.25
Supplemental Material for The Codevelopment of Contingent Self-Worth and Religious Engagement in U.S. College Students23
Stressful events, stress level, and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model with secure attachment to god as moderator.21
Supplemental Material for Psychological Functions of Religious Holidays Versus Nonreligious Vacation: Findings From a Series of Experiments About Shabbat21
Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.20
Divine forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness: Which comes first?19
Supplemental Material for The Social Pain of Religious Deidentification: Religious Dones Conceal Their Identity and Feel Less Belonging in Religious Cultures18
Icons and paintings: Differences in psychological distance, empathy, and the feeling of personal communication.18
Not as good as I would like to be: Moral self-discrepancy, religiosity, spirituality, and mental health.18
The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale.17
Supplemental Material for Transcendent Accountability Amplifies the Link Between Accountability to People and Patience and Courage in Goal Pursuit17
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men17
Pure in heart: Perceived virtue states uniquely predict prosocial processes, spirituality, and well-being.16
Spiritual transcendence and helping behavior: Helping toward ingroups and outgroups.16
Relationship between numinous constructs and values.16
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.15
Karma rewards me and punishes you: Self–other divergences in karma beliefs.14
Supplemental Material for Spiritual Harm and Abuse in Religious Deidentification From Ultra-Orthodox Judaism14
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships.13
Supplemental Material for Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction Among Sexual Minorities13
A longitudinal investigation of religious prosociality: What predicts it and who benefits?12
Supplemental Material for The Development of the Christian Views of Suffering Scale12
The specificity of the experience–belief relationship for paranormal and religious experiences and beliefs.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
Supplemental Material for Karma Rewards Me and Punishes You: Self–Other Divergences in Karma Beliefs12
Religious coping, resilience, and involuntary displacement: A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan.11
Encompassing marvel of body and spirit: Daoist mysticism and interpretation.11
Supplemental Material for “Prayer Is Universal”: How Integrative Faith Practices Enable Indigenous Peoples’ Persistence and Resistance to Transcend Historical Oppression11
Daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life: The mediating role of loneliness and moderating role of satisfaction with social and intimate relationships.11
Supplemental Material for Children’s Beliefs About God’s Intervention in Everyday Life10
Supplemental Material for Attachment to Mother, Father, and God: Testing for Latent Profiles of the Correspondence and Compensation Hypotheses and Their Relation to Well-Being Among U.S. Emerging Adul10
Time-varying and gender differences in religious socialization and associations with Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity.10
Zeal of the convert? Comparing religiousness between convert and nonconvert Muslims.9
Supplemental Material for The Experiences of Faith and Church Community Among Christian Adults With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Metasynthesis9
Body image and religion: Explicit and implicit attitudes among three denominations of Jewish women.9
A longitudinal study of racism, religion/spirituality, and health in a nationwide sample of Black Americans.9
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Divine Grace Among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints9
Atheism is not the absence of religion: Development of the monotheist and atheist belief scales and associations with death anxiety and analytic thinking.9
Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.8
Religious contingent self-worth in U.S. Christians: A latent profile analysis.8
Toward enlightenment: Dissolving the ego and expanding the world through mindfulness and psychedelics.8
Individual-level trajectories of religiosity during adolescence and their implications for purpose.8
In the valley of the shadow of death: The existential benefits of imbuing life and death with meaning.7
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
Fundamentalism as dogmatic belief, moral rigorism, and strong groupness across cultures: Dimensionality, underlying components, and related interreligious prejudice.7
Differentiating personified, supernatural, and abstract views of God across three cognitive domains.7
The cosmic battle: Belief in a warrior god, a powerful devil, and a serious threat of hell relates to QAnon beliefs, generic conspiracist beliefs, and seeing political opponents as evil.7
To hell with the devil:Lingering negative religious beliefs among religious dones.7
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
Psychological functions of religious holidays versus nonreligious vacation: Findings from a series of experiments about Shabbat.7
Recycling, relatedness, and reincarnation: Religious beliefs about nature and the afterlife as predictors of sustainability practices.7
Sanctification of diverse aspects of life and psychosocial functioning: A meta-analysis of studies from 1999 to 2019.7
“Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies.7
Supplemental Material for Multidimensional Religious Identity Predicts Muslim American Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being, and Purpose7
Spirituality and meaning-making across contexts: Structural topic modeling of the Fetzer spirituality study in the United States.7
Religious stewardship and pro-environmental action: The mediating roles of environmental guilt and anger.7
Children’s beliefs about God’s intervention in everyday life.7
Supplemental Material for Fallout of Faith in Iran: How Religious Leaders’ Hypocrisy Undermines Beliefs While Parents’ Devotion Sustains It6
Supplemental Material for Religion-Justified Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Psychological Maladjustment6
Religiousness and homonegativity in congregations: The role of individual, congregational, and clergy characteristics.6
The impact of general and religious/spiritual minority stressors on LGBTQ+ individuals’ spiritual health.6
Multidimensional religious identity predicts Muslim American adolescent mental health, well-being, and purpose.6
Supplemental Material for Encompassing Marvel of Body and Spirit: Daoist Mysticism and Interpretation6
Supplemental Material for Definitions of Meditation Among Lay People: A Mixed Method Examination Considering the Roles of Meditation Experience, Religion, and Spirituality6
Self-identity orientation and religious identity: An application of the tetrapartite model of self.5
Religious affiliation, self-stigma, and economic outcomes among the Quichua of Ecuador.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
Christian religious affiliation is associated with less posttraumatic stress symptoms through forgiveness but not search for meaning after hurricane Irma and Maria.5
Is religiousness a unique predictor of self-esteem? An empirical investigation with a diverse Israeli sample.5
The Questionnaire God Representations for clinical and scientific use in the context of mental health care (QGR-17).5
Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19.5
Exploring conceptions of patience among a sample of Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, and nonreligious young adults.5
Supplemental Material for Hostile and Prosocial Reactions to Christian Privilege in the United States: A Registered Report5
Acknowledgment5
The four horsemen of religious deidentification.5
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