David B Larson

Biographic Data

ID174755
NAMEDavid B Larson
GIVEN NAMESDavid B
FAMILY NAMELarson
SIGNATURELARSON D B
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute of Mental Health
ORCID0000-0002-1157-5905
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS435
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX6

  • A Framework for Describing Health Care Delivery Organizations and Systems

    Ileana L Piña, Perry D Cohen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Cited by: 6References: 31

    Describing, evaluating, and conducting research on the questions raised by comparative effectiveness research and characterizing care delivery organizations of all kinds, from independent individual provider units to large integrated health systems, has become imperative. Recognizing this challenge, the Delivery Systems Committee, a subgroup of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Effective Health Care Stakeholders Group, which repres…

  • A Review of Spiritual and Religious Measures in Nursing Research Journals

    Open AccessShelley Dean Kilpatrick, Andrew J Weaver et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2005

  • Religion as a Meaning System

    Open AccessKenneth I Maton, Daniel Dodgen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2005Cited by: 3References: 23

    The development of social policy related to religion has received increasing focus in recent years, yet psychology continues to play a relatively minor role in this important domain. In the current article, religion's positive and negative influences as a meaning system on individual, community, and societal well‐being are delineated. The challenges facing psychology in contributing to public policy development in the religious arena are examined…

  • Dimensions of Religiosity and Their Relationship to Lifetime Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

    Kenneth S Kendler, Xiao-Qing Liu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry2003

    OBJECTIVE: The role of religion in mental illness remains understudied. Most prior investigations of this relationship have used measures of religiosity that do not reflect its complexity and/or have examined a small number of psychiatric outcomes. This study used data from a general population sample to clarify the dimensions of religiosity and the relationships of these dimensions to risk for lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders. ME…

  • Spirituality's Potential Relevance to Physical and Emotional Health

    Open AccessDavid B Larson, Susan S LarsonARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology2003

    Longitudinal studies of community samples consistently find links between active spiritual/religious involvement and increased chances for living longer, pointing to the relevance of spirituality/religion as a potential health factor. For a large proportion of either medically ill or mental health patients, spirituality/religion may provide coping resources, enhance pain management, improve surgical outcomes, protect against depression, and reduc…

  • The ironson-woods spirituality/religiousness index is associated with long survival, health behaviors, less distress, and low cortisol in people with HIV/Aids

    Gail Ironson, George F Solomon et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Behavioral Medicine2002

    The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of an instrument that measures both spirituality and religiousness, to examine the relation between spirituality and religiousness and important health outcomes for people living with HIV and to examine the potential mediators of these relations. One aim was to determine whether subscales of spirituality, religiousness, or both would be independently related to long survival …

  • Target Article

    L K George, C G Ellison et al.ARTICLEPsychological Inquiry2002

    There is increasing research evidence that religious involvement is associated both cross-sectionally and prospectively with better physical health, better mental health, and longer survival. These relationships remain substantial in size and statistically significant with other risk and protective factors for morbidity and mortality statistically controlled. In this article, we review the social and psychological factors that have been hypothesi…

  • A Review of Mortality Research on Clergy and Other Religious Professionals

    Open AccessKevin J Flannelly, Andrew J Weaver et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2002

  • Handbook of Religion and Health

    Harold Koenig, Harold George Koenig et al.BOOKHandbook of religion and health2001

  • Religion and Coping with Serious Medical Illness

    Open AccessHarold G Koenig, Harold Koenig et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Pharmacotherapy2001

    OBJECTIVE: To review and discuss some of the research published in the last several decades that has addressed the role that religion plays in helping patients cope with serious medical illness. DATA SOURCES: Although this is not a systematic review of the literature, it provides a sampling of the studies that have examined the relationship between religious involvement, coping with illness, and health outcomes. This sampling of studies reflects …

  • Religion and mental health

    Harold G Koenig, Harold Koenig et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Psychiatry2001

    The relationship between religion and mental health has been debated for centuries. History shows that religious organizations were often the first to offer compassionate care to the mentally ill; however, for hundreds of years the religious establishment also persecuted the mentally ill. Nevertheless, the first form of psychiatric care in Western Europe and the US was known as 'moral treatment', in which religion played a significant role. The t…

  • Does Adolescent Religious Commitment Matter? A Reexamination of the Effects of Religiosity on Delinquency

    Open AccessBryan R Johnson, Byron R Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Crime and…2001

    This study reexamines the relevance of religiosity to the etiology of delinquency, given the inconsistent and inconclusive evidence found in the literature. Like previous researchers, the authors test whether the effects of religiosity on delinquency are spurious or completely indirect via social bonding, social learning, and sociodemographic variables. Unlike previous researchers, however, the authors (1) control for measurement errors in estima…

  • Is gratitude a moral affect

    Michael E Mccullough, Shelley Dean Kilpatrick et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2001Cited by: 106References: 103

    Gratitude is conceptualized as a moral affect that is analogous to other moral emotions such as empathy and guilt. Gratitude has 3 functions that can be conceptualized as morally relevant: (a) a moral barometer function (i.e., it is a response to the perception that one has been the beneficiary of another person's moral actions); (b) a moral motive function (i.e., it motivates the grateful person to behave prosocially toward the benefactor and ot…

  • Spirituality and Health

    L K George, David B Larson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Clinical…2000

    Spirituality and religion have been seen as beneficial, harmful, and irrelevant to health. We examine the recent research on this topic. We focus on (a) defining spirituality and religion both conceptually and operationally; (b) the relationships between spirituality/religion and health; and (c) priorities for future research. Although the effect sizes are moderate, there typically are links between religious practices and reduced onset of physic…

  • Religious involvement and mortality

    Michael E Mccullough, William T Hoyt et al.ARTICLEHealth Psychology2000

  • A Systematic Review of the Religiosity and Delinquency Literature

    Open AccessBryan R Johnson, Byron R Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Criminal…2000

    The influence of religion on delinquency has been debated for more than 30 years, and yet, there remains a lack of consensus about the nature of this relationship. In an effort to bring some clarity to this area, this study assesses the religion-delinquency literature by using a methodological approach to reviewing a body of literature that is new to the social sciences—the systematic review (SR). This SR revealed that the literature is not dispa…

  • The ‘Invisible Institution’ and Black Youth Crime

    Open AccessBryan R Johnson, Byron R Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2000Cited by: 39References: 23

  • Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality

    Open AccessPeter C Hill, Kenneth Ii Pargament et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2000Cited by: 207References: 9

    Psychologists' emerging interest in spirituality and religion as well as the relevance of each phenomenon to issues of psychological importance requires an understanding of the fundamental characteristics of each construct. On the basis of both historical considerations and a limited but growing empirical literature, we caution against viewing spirituality and religiousness as incompatible and suggest that the common tendency to polarize the term…

  • Does Religious Attendance Prolong Survival? A Six-Year Follow-Up Study of 3,968 Older Adults

    Harold Koenig, H G Koenig et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…1999

    METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the National Institutes of Health. Attendance at religious services and a wide variety of sociodemographic and health variables were assessed at baseline. Vital status of members was then determined p…

  • Prayer.

    Michael E Mccullough, David B LarsonCHAPTERIntegrating Spirituality into…1999

  • The mismeasurement of religion in mortality research

    Michael E Mccullough, David B Larson et al.ARTICLEMortality1999

    This paper reviews the existing research on mortality among members of specific religious faiths in comparison with the general population and examines the methods used to ascertain and categorize religious affiliation in mortality research. Having obtained these studies by using standard literature retrieval methods, we then noted the methods used in each of these studies to ascertain and categorize religious affiliation. We found that mortality…

  • Spiritually and Religiously Oriented Health Interventions

    Open AccessAlex H S Harris, Carl E Thoresen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology1999Cited by: 6References: 88

    Controlled intervention studies offer considerable promise to better understand relationships and possible mechanisms between spiritual and religious factors and health. Studies examining spiritually augmented cognitive-behavioral therapies, forgiveness interventions, different meditation approaches, 12-step fellowships, and prayer have provided some evidence, albeit modest, of efficacy in improving health under specific conditions. Researchers n…

  • Religion and the Survival of 1010 Hospitalized Veterans

    Open AccessHarold G Koenig, Harold Koenig et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health1998

  • Punishment Enhances Reasoning's Effectiveness as a Disciplinary Response to Toddlers

    Robert E Larzelere, Paul R Sather et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1998Cited by: 10

    Robert E. Larzelere, Paul R. Sather, William N. Schneider, David B. Larson, Patricia L. Pike, Punishment Enhances Reasoning's Effectiveness as a Disciplinary Response to Toddlers, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 388-403

  • Modeling the Cross-Sectional Relationships Between Religion, Physical Health, Social Support, and Depressive Symptoms

    Open AccessHarold Koenig, Judith C Hays et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of Geriatric…1997