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- Title
Religious Confession and Symptom Severity: A Prospective Comparative Study.
- Authors
Rana, Madiha; Rana, Majeed; Herzberg, Philipp; Krause, Christin
- Abstract
Little research has been done on comparing confessions regarding mental health. In the present study, 320 people (78 Buddhists, 77 Catholics, 89 Protestants and 79 Muslims) were compared in terms of their symptom severity. Buddhists and Protestants had lower scores than Catholics and Muslims for obsessive-compulsive behavior and hostility. Muslim group had the highest comparative scores for psychoticism. Buddhists and Protestants had comparatively low scores for paranoid ideation and overall symptom severity, with Catholics and Muslims having high ones. Results reveal that confession should be taken in account in psychological research and diagnosis, since it is explicitly associated with psychological well-being.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; LONGITUDINAL method; MENTAL illness; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PROBABILITY theory; RELIGION; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; SEVERITY of illness index
- Publication
Journal of Religion & Health, 2015, Vol 54, Issue 6, p2142
- ISSN
0022-4197
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10943-014-9937-9