Our aim is to evaluate the relationship between religiosity and impulsivity in patients with mental illness who had attempted suicide and in healthy individuals. This is a cross-sectional study that included 61 healthy individuals and 93 patients. The instruments used were a sociodemographic data questionnaire, the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, ...

OBJECTIVE The effects of religious belief and activity on remission of depression were examined in medically ill hospitalized older patients. METHOD Consecutive patients aged 60 years or over who had been admitted to medical inpatient services at a university medical center were screened for depressive symptoms. Of 111 patients scoring 16 or higher on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depr...

Essential to development advance in any society, having social support that social capital is one of those and include components:  "social trust", "social cohesion", "social participation", "social consciousness", and "religiosity".                                                       The aim of this research is on relationship between social capital and urban development variable. Statistica...

In three samples containing Buddhist and Christian participants from several nations, participants of both religions manifested a generally similar relationship between religiosity and intolerance. In all three samples, devotional religiosity (e.g. prayer frequency, faith devotion), was strongly correlated with coalitional religiosity (e.g. organized religious attendance, fundamentalism). Yet d...

Prior research suggests that religiosity, especially public religious participation, is related to greater volunteerism. However, less is known about religious transmission across the life course, in particular whether and how religiosity in childhood is linked to later life volunteerism. This study investigates a sample of emerging adults in South Texas (n = 701) with a high percent of Hispani...

We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behavior in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behavior, 1995), which we also extend by providing information of a potential trustee’s religiosity in certain tasks. We find...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To explain the variations in depressive symptomatology among primary caregivers of community dwelling activities of daily living disabled elderly and to evaluate the role of family and religiosity on the mental health consequences of caregiving in Spain. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING City of Leganés in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain. PARTICIPANTS All caregi...

This paper describes an adaptation of the Centrality Religiosity Scale to Buddhist religious tradition (CBRS) and a validation in Vietnam. The sample included data from 421 Vietnamese Buddhists (300 females, 121 males), aged 17 71 years (M=35.03, SD=13.09). results provided evidence for good psychometric properties short, intermediate, long version: CBRS-5, CBRS-10, CBRS-15 respectively. Specif...

African American (AA) and Hispanic/Latina (HL) women report lower rates of physical activity (PA) and poorer dietary habits compared to their white counterparts. Religiosity can act as a protective factor for health; however, the relationship between religiosity, PA, and diet is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the influence of religiosity on PA and fruit and vegetable (FV) and fat cons...