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- Title
Religiosity/Spirituality and Mental Health: A Meta-analysis of Studies from the German-Speaking Area.
- Authors
Hodapp, Bastian; Zwingmann, Christian
- Abstract
The meta-analysis presented here investigates the relationship between religiosity/spirituality (R/S) and mental health based on 67 studies from the German-speaking area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The weighted average correlation is.03 (95% CI [.01,.05]), indicating that a greater R/S is minimally but significantly associated with better mental health. The results are moderated by the type of R/S measure: negative R/S types correlate −.20 with mental health, whereas other R/S measures exhibit small positive associations. In comparison with US-American meta-analyses, the average effect size is lower, and the associations between negative R/S types and lower mental health are particularly strong.
- Subjects
GERMANY; CONFIDENCE intervals; PSYCHOLOGY information storage &; retrieval systems; MEDLINE; MENTAL health; META-analysis; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY; EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
- Publication
Journal of Religion & Health, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 6, p1970
- ISSN
0022-4197
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10943-019-00759-0