Happiness and the Varieties of Religious Experience: Religious Support, Practices, and Spirituality as Predictors of Well-Being
The present study proposes a stringent test for religious variables by examining their power to predict subjective well-being (happiness) over and above nonreligious indicators. The total sample included 489 participants (57% women) with a mean age of 44. A series of multiple hierarchical regression...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2005
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2005, Volume: 15, Pages: 209-233 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social sciences
B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | The present study proposes a stringent test for religious variables by examining their power to predict subjective well-being (happiness) over and above nonreligious indicators. The total sample included 489 participants (57% women) with a mean age of 44. A series of multiple hierarchical regressions was performed with each well-being facet as the criterion in separate models. Personality explained a significant amount of variance for negative emotion (21%), positive emotion (28%), and cognitive well-being (17%). Congregational support and public religious practices added no unique variance to any aspect of subjective well-being. Spirituality made a significant, independent contribution in predicting positive emotion (5%) and cognitive well-being (1%), but none to negative emotion. These findings support the notion that spirituality makes a unique contribution in predicting subjective well-being, and its motivational power may result from its link to positive affect and life satisfaction. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789047406563_015 |