While some trauma survivors find their faith helpful in recovery, others find it a source of
distress, and still others abandon their faith. More complex conceptualizations of religious …

In this chapter, we discuss important issues in the mesaurement of religion and spirituality
and present a hierarchical model for conceptualizing the various aspects of religiousness …

Objective (s) Hypothesis: Religious strain would mediate the relationship between stress
symptoms at baseline and stress symptoms 1 year later. Method Seventy‐nine people with a …

Research on prayer and posttraumatic growth (PTG) indicates that those who pray report
more PTG. Research is beginning to identify which types of prayer may be operating in this …

Prayer is one of the most important aspects of religious/spiritual life. The psychological
literature has identified various types of prayer and a few methods for measuring it. The …

To date, the literature on religiosity and anxiety has yielded mixed results. Available results
suggest that constellations of religious attitudes, commitment and denominational …

Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized
religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed …

US military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are at risk for developing adverse
mental health symptoms. This study was conducted to examine the associations between …

To date, the literature on prayer and anxiety has yielded mixed results. Recent development
of a new instrument has improved our ability to measure individuals' prayer activities, which …

This study links two fields of empirical research. The first field (grounded in empirical
theology) is concerned with ordinary prayer and that aspect of implicit religion discernable …