ReviewPsychology research and behavior management2014
Influence of religious aspects and personal beliefs on psychological behavior: focus on anxiety disorders.
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- Editorial: Case reports in anxiety and stress.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Parental religiosity is associated with changes in youth functional network organization and cognitive performance in early adolescence.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Variations in Well-Being as a Function of Paranormal Belief and Psychopathological Symptoms: A Latent Profile Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Possible Anti-anxiety Effect of Appetitive Aggression and a Possible Link to the Work of Donald Winnicott.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2022Article
- Paranormal belief, cognitive-perceptual factors, and well-being: A network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Effect of Spirituality on the Subjective Recovery of Psychiatric Patients.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- Stress, Coping, and Psychiatric Symptoms in Pregnant Women in Outpatient Care During the 2021 Second-Wave COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Spiritual Well-Being as a Predictor of Emotional Impairment Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2020Article
- The Impact of Fasting on the Psychological Well-Being of Muslim Graduate Students.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Opinions, Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning "Spirituality, Religiosity and Health" Among Health Graduates in a Spanish University.Journal of religion and health · 2019Article
- Assessment of Depression and Anxiety in Breast Cancer Patients: Prevalence and Associated FactorsAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2018Article
- Spiritual Factors Predict State and Trait Anxiety.Journal of religion and health · 2017Article
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Abstract
The current paper presents literature relevant to the relationship of religiosity, spirituality, and personal beliefs with mental health and, in particular, anxiety disorders as an empirical narrative review, providing an overview on the most important and clinically relevant research results on the topic. The relationship between religiosity/spirituality, personal beliefs (ie, magical ideation and paranormal beliefs), and mental health has lately been studied extensively, and results have indicated significant associations among these variables. However, scientific approaches to this field are complex and multidimensional, partly leading to poor operationalization, incomparable data, and contradictory results. Literature demonstrates that higher religiosity/spirituality and magical ideation scores have often been associated with increased obsessive-compulsive traits. Similar results could not be confidently replicated for other anxiety disorders. However, it is still unclear if these differences suggest a specific association with obsessive-compulsive traits and reflect deviating etiopathogenetic and cognitive aspects between obsessive-compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders, or if these results are biased through other factors. Religiosity/spirituality and personal beliefs constitute important parameters of human experience and deserve greater consideration in the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychiatric disorders.
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