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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022

More spiritual than religious: Concurrent and longitudinal relations with personality traits, mystical experiences, and other individual characteristics.

Zhuo Job Chen, Richard G Cowden, Heinz Streib

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Between Vulnerability and Connection: Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Transformative Religious/Spiritual Experiences.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025
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3 authors.

Zhuo Job ChenSchool of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, United States.
Richard G CowdenHuman Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Heinz StreibResearch Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People who self-identify as predominantly spiritual constitute a considerable and well-established part of the religious landscape in North America and Europe. Thus, further research is needed to document predictors, correlates, and outcomes associated with self-identifying primarily as a spiritual person. In the following set of studies, we contribute to some of these areas using data from German and United States adults. Study 1 (

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PMCPMC9846486

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