ArticleJournal of religion and health2018
Importance of Religion or Spirituality and Mental Health in Canada.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Influence of Religiosity and Spirituality on Health in Canada: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of religion and health · 2022Pooled it
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- A scoping review and thematic analysis of the landscape of spiritual health and spirituality in Canada.PloS one · 2026Article
- Spirituality, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Use of Complementary Medicine in Vaccine Attitudes: A Cross-Sectional Study in Northern Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Medicine for the soul: (Non)religious identity, coping, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Relationships between employment status with self-perceived mental and physical health in Canada.AIMS public health · 2024Article
- Throw BABE Out With the Bathwater? Canadian Atheists are No Less Healthy than the Religious.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- What Aspects of Religion and Spirituality Affect the Physical Health of Cancer Patients? A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Psychometric Properties of a Persian Version of the SpREUK-P Questionnaire: An Instrument for Measuring the Importance and Frequency of Spiritual/Religious Practices in Iranian Patients with Chronic Gastrointestinal Diseases.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Godless in the Great White North: Assessing the Health of Canadian Atheists Using Data from the 2011/2012 Canadian Community Health Survey.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- The prevalence and correlates of anxiety and depression amongst essential workers during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ekiti State, Nigeria.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2022Article
- The Effect of Spirituality on the Subjective Recovery of Psychiatric Patients.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- Religion, Health, and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Australia.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Relationship Between Praying and Self-Care in Elderly with Heart Failure: A Cross-Sectional Study in West of Iran.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- The Association of Cyber-Bullying and Adolescents in Religious and Secular Schools in Israel.Journal of religion and health · 2019Article
- Religious Identity and Health Inequalities in Canada.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2018Article
- Treatment seeking for problematic pornography use among women.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2017Article
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Abstract
Using the latest mental health cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey (N = 20,868), this paper examines how the importance of religion or spirituality in one's life associates with mental health. Based on this question, the population is divided into three groups of high religiosity, average religiosity, and secularized. Secularized individuals are shown to have large deficits in all the psychological markers suggested to mediate the relationship between religiosity and mental health, compared to the two other groups. In spite of these deficits, the secularized and the highly religious are found almost equally more likely to rate their mental health as excellent, than the individuals with average religiosity. Interestingly, these two groups are also more likely to rate their mental health as poor. Considering the ability to deal with day-to-day demands and unexpected problems in life as the dependent variable yields comparable results. Various explanations are explored.
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