OBJECTIVES Previous research has identified an inverse relationship between religiosity/spirituality and depressive symptoms. However, prospective studies are needed. This study investigates the association between antenatal religiosity/spirituality and postpartum depression, controlling for antenatal depressive symptoms, social support, and other potential confounders. METHODS This is a pros...

BACKGROUND This study examined the association between blood pressure (BP), selected health behaviors, and various dimensions of religiosity among females. METHODS Data were obtained on 112 females who were at least 35 years of age and of Judeo-Christian faith. Resting BP measures were taken with an automated sphygmomanometer, height and weight were measured to determine body mass index (BMI)...

Religious people nowadays have more children on average than their secular counterparts. This paper uses a simple model to explore the evolutionary implications of this difference. It assumes that fertility is determined entirely by culture, whereas subjective predisposition towards religion is influenced by genetic endowment. People who carry a certain 'religiosity' gene are more likely than a...

Substance addiction is damaging to the health of persons, families, and society. Often the person with addiction has decreased spirituality and religiosity and suffers from anxiety, depression, or both, increasing the risk for continued substance use and its concomitant negative consequences. The study purpose was to describe spirituality and religiosity, among persons enrolled in methadone mai...

Previous research suggests that many men increase their religious involvement after the birth of a new child. This study extends this research by examining whether fathers maintain a higher rate of religious participation as children get older and how fathers’ religiosity may influence children’s behavior. Results suggest that many fathers maintain a higher level of religious participation duri...

Religiosity and Consequentialist Moral Thinking 2 Three studies demonstrated that the moral judgments of religious individuals and political conservatives are highly insensitive to consequentialist (i.e., outcome-based) considerations. In Study 1, both religiosity and political conservatism predicted a resistance towards consequentialist thinking concerning a range of transgressive acts, indepe...

spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. the present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (human, existence and god) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness.one hundred seventy eight students of islamic azad university in tor...

Modern society is in dire need of finding and developing ways of mental health self-control that allow people as painlessly as possible to overcome various kinds of stress. Religiosity, as personal quality, which is expressed in the aggregate of certain properties of consciousness, behavior and attitudes can be considered as a factor that certainly affects the social and psychological adaptabil...

Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at current religiosity as well as exposure to religiosity during childhood. A unique, rich, data set is...