Persistent population aging worldwide is focusing attention on modifiable factors that can
improve later life health. There is evidence that religiosity and spirituality are among such …

Human engagement with religion and spirituality is pervasive across the world, yet the
extent to which religious and/or spiritual involvement promotes well-being is controversial …

Theoretical conceptualizations of awe suggest this emotion can be more positive or negative
depending on specific appraisal processes. However, the emergent scientific study of awe …

COVID-19 has led to global dramatic shifts in daily life. Following the biopsychosocial model
of health, the goal of the current study was to predict people's psychological well-being …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

There has been an increasing interest in the relationship between religion and psychosocial
functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, emerging recent findings suggest …

Social psychologists have often followed other scientists in treating religiosity primarily as a
set of beliefs held by individuals. But, beliefs are only one facet of this complex and …

Coping, defined as the thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external
demands of situations that are appraised as stressful, has been a focus of research in the …

How do we as Americans define our identities? How do our stories represent who we are-
our successes, our failures, our past, our future? Stories of redemption are some of the most …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …