Religious practices such as prayer represent the most prevalent complementary and
alternative therapies in the United States. However, biomedicine has sometimes viewed …

In my quarter century of conducting psychotherapy with clients from all walks of life, I have
found that time and time again many of the issues clients wish to discuss in psychotherapy …

The present study concerns the relationship between religious orientation, meaning in life,
and subjective well-being, as well as the mediating influence of meaning in life on the …

If one were to type in the keywords “religion,”“spirituality,” and “health” on various Internet
search engines, one would find an exhaustive list of sites, well into the hundreds. Many of …

Research suggests a strong positive relationship between religiosity and marital satisfaction.
Neglected, however, are differences in satisfaction based on nominal religious motivation …

Although shame is a universal human emotion and is one of the most difficult emotions to
overcome, its origins and nature as well as its effects on psychosocial functioning are not …

This research examines whether religious conceptions of guilt in Protestant and Roman
Catholic groups account for constructive or non-constructive guilt-reactions and for different …

Belief scales with good psychometric properties are relatively rare. Several scales that claim
to measure levels of belief use behavioural indicators that do not necessarily reflect belief …

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between extrinsic religiosity
and unhealthy guilt by testing two specific hypotheses. Using multidimensional measures of …

In der gegenwärtigen religionspsychologischen Forschung dominieren Religiositätsskalen,
die ausschliesslich auf die christliche Religion beschränkt sind. Geht man aber davon aus …