David H Rosmarin
Biographic Data
| ID | 329888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Rosmarin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosmarin |
| SIGNATURE | ROSMARIN D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0146-7716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intent vs. impact
Relatively little is known about Jewish students’ judgments of and emotional reactions to campus Israel-Gaza protest in comparison to their peers. We conducted a within-subjects comparative design study with 337 college/university students (M = 22.02, SD = 4.19, 53% cisgender women, 53% White/European American), across two groups (Jewish vs. non-Jewish), and two image types (exposure to Israel-Gaza campus protest images vs. images of other campus…
Mental Health Clinical Pastoral Education-A Specialized CPE Program
This article describes the design and implementation of a Specialized Mental Health Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program for clergy and theological students of all spiritual, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Addressing the need for mental health competencies in religious leaders and chaplains, this training equips participants with specialized skills in individual and group mental health spiritual assessment and spiritual care. Program p…
Clinical differences between outpatients with and without internet addiction and emotional disorders
our findings contribute to a better understanding of the discreteness of IA as a potential psychological disorder and inform more effective treatment strategies for IA and its comorbid conditions
Introduction of Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) in The Netherlands
The perceived value of the integration of spirituality and religion (SR) in mental health care is growing. This study aimed to adapt an SR intervention developed in the USA (SPIRIT) for use in the Netherlands and to explore its applicability. Employing a participatory practice-based action research design, professionals, clients, and an advisory board collaborated in iterative cycles of translation, adaptation, discussion, and testing. The ongoin…
Internet Addiction and the Treatment of Depression? A Prospective Naturalistic Outcome Study
The increasing prevalence of Internet addiction (IA) has been linked with a wide range of psychological disorders, including depression. We explored how IA was prospectively associated with effectiveness of treatment for adult patients with depressive symptoms (n = 241) in the context of a New York-based outpatient clinic. Although IA was not correlated with symptoms at intake, patients with higher IA attended fewer total sessions on average. Mul…
Religious affiliation protects against alcohol/substance use initiation
BACKGROUND: A substantial volume of the literature suggests that religious factors buffer against alcohol/substance use among adults, but research among adolescents is sparse. Further, few studies in this area have been prospective, and therefore it is unclear how religion may impact less alcohol/substance use among adolescents. METHOD: We prospectively evaluated effects of religious affiliation on initiation of alcohol/substance use in a sample …
Religious Beliefs, Trust In Public Figures, And Adherence to Covid-19 Health Guidelines among American Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews
The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant health crisis highlighted the lack of scholarly understanding of the effects of sociocultural factors and religious beliefs on compliance with public health guidelines. Orthodox Jews in particular were suspected of mistrusting medical experts and were singled out for alleged non-compliance with COVID-19 health guidelines. We surveyed American Jews ( N = 1,141) during the early stages of the pandemic about their…
Does closeness to God mediate the relationship between prayer and mental health in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim samples
Most research in the psychology of religion does not account for interfaith differences. Many studies rely on predominately Christian samples with only a small representation of other faiths. Other studies focus solely on one religion without testing interfaith comparisons. Drawing from previous research in which closeness to God mediated the relationship between prayer and mental health in a predominately Christian sample, this study tested for …
Integrating Spirituality in Group Psychotherapy with First Responders
First responders (e.g., fire fighters, law enforcement, paramedics, corrections officers) are at disproportionately high risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress and engaging in substance misuse. Spirituality is a potential source of resilience and recovery in the context of trauma and substance misuse; however, evidence-based clinical protocols integrating spirituality into group psychotherapy with first responders are rare. This article descri…
A comparative study of mental health diagnoses, symptoms, treatment, and medication use among Orthodox Jews
Historical clinical reports and media narratives suggest that Orthodox Jews are reticent to seek treatment for mental illness, present only with serious concerns, and hesitate to comply with treatment in general and psychopharmacology in particular. On the other hand, recent developments, and some limited research, suggest that Orthodox Jews may be likely to seek and comply with treatment. The current study compared the diagnostic, symptomatic, a…
Covid-19, Religious Coping, and Weight Change in the Orthodox Jewish Community
Does gender moderate effects of religion on anxiety among Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews
Studies examining religion's effects on mental health have insufficiently focused on basic moderators of observed effects. Given that Orthodox Jewish religious culture places greater ritual obligations on men than women, but is gender-equivalent regarding faith, we expected Orthodox Jewish men and women to experience different levels of anxiety in relation to religious practice but not intrinsic religiosity, and that no gender differences would e…
Validation of "Trust/Mistrust in God Scale" for Spanish Cancer Patients
Trust/Mistrust in God have turned out to be two constructs that have great relevance in the study of the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health. In Spain, there are no instruments adapted to measure trust/mistrust in God, which limits the work of researchers interested in these aspects. Therefore, the aim of this study was to validate the Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale (BTMGS) in Spanish. The scale translated into Spanish was …
Implicit and explicit attitudes towards God and life satisfaction
A Look at the First Quarantined Community in the USA
Covid-19, Mental Health, and Religious Coping Among American Orthodox Jews
My God, why have you abandoned me? Sexual abuse and attitudes towards God among Orthodox Jews
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) correlates with disruptions in core beliefs, which within Orthodox Judaism may be linked to God. We hypothesise that CSA may negatively alter attitudes towards God for some, while remaining unchanged or even activating this domain for others. This was tested in a sample of 136 individuals and results indicated that positive explicit beliefs about God differed between those who remained Orthodox and those who disaffili…
Religious Coping and Health and Well-Being among Jews and Muslims in Israel
This cross-sectional study used data from 486 Israeli Jews and Muslims to examine the phenomenon of religious coping among an Israeli sample. Participants were recruited in the context of two research projects on coping methods, one examining the stress of the Gaza war of 2014, and the other examining the stress of aging. Participants provided demographic information and completed measures of religious coping, satisfaction with life, and depressi…
Commentary on “Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health?”
The meta-analysis in this issue of the IJPR assesses whether religiosity and spirituality (R/S) affects “mental health” and how large that effect is based on evidence provided by longitudinal studi
A call for collaboration
To assess the relationship and collaborations between mental health professionals and religious and spiritual leaders, eleven representatives of ten different religious affiliations in Portugal participated in this qualitative study. Major findings reported showed that religious leaders perceive themselves as important agents in promoting and preserving their congregants’ mental health, as well as aiding their recovery processes; however this occ…
Is Attachment to God a Unique Predictor of Mental Health? Test in a Jewish Sample
Research suggests that religion and spirituality generally correlate positively with various aspects of mental health, although mediators remain unclear. We explored whether attachment to God is a unique predictor above and beyond other key religious variables within a Jewish sample. Given the religion-as-culture perspective suggesting that Judaism can be characterized as primarily focused on behavior versus internal mental experiences, we expect…
The Pios among the pious
The Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS) is the most widely utilised measure of religious obsessive-compulsive disorder. While it has been studied in clinical and community samples, its psychometric properties have not been evaluated among highly religious Orthodox Jewish individuals. This is consequential, as scrupulosity is most likely to occur in religious contexts. In two studies, we examined its factorial structure, reliability, and concurr…
Religious coping across a spectrum of religious involvement among Jews
A Paradigm to Assess Implicit Attitudes towards God
Maintaining a grateful disposition in the face of distress
Despite a surge in psychological research on gratitude over the past several years, a number of important questions remain unanswered about this highly valued trait. It is largely unknown, for example, how gratitude is maintained in times of distress. This article supports and extends existing theory and research on the relevance of benefit detection (the perception of having received a gain rendered intentionally and voluntarily by another), by …
Do Spiritual Struggles Predict Poorer Physical/Mental Health Among Jews
Although spirituality and religion are generally associated with higher levels of physical and mental well-being, spiritual struggles, which involve tension in regard to spiritual issues, have been identified as a risk factor for poorer physical and mental health, especially among individuals with greater levels of personal religiousness. However, studies in this area have utilized predominantly Christian samples and the importance of spiritual s…
Religious Coping and Health and Well-Being among Jews and Muslims in Israel
This cross-sectional study used data from 486 Israeli Jews and Muslims to examine the phenomenon of religious coping among an Israeli sample. Participants were recruited in the context of two research projects on coping methods, one examining the stress of the Gaza war of 2014, and the other examining the stress of aging. Participants provided demographic information and completed measures of religious coping, satisfaction with life, and depressi…
Commentary on “Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health?”
The meta-analysis in this issue of the IJPR assesses whether religiosity and spirituality (R/S) affects “mental health” and how large that effect is based on evidence provided by longitudinal studi
Is Attachment to God a Unique Predictor of Mental Health? Test in a Jewish Sample
Research suggests that religion and spirituality generally correlate positively with various aspects of mental health, although mediators remain unclear. We explored whether attachment to God is a unique predictor above and beyond other key religious variables within a Jewish sample. Given the religion-as-culture perspective suggesting that Judaism can be characterized as primarily focused on behavior versus internal mental experiences, we expect…
Introduction of Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential, and Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) in The Netherlands
The perceived value of the integration of spirituality and religion (SR) in mental health care is growing. This study aimed to adapt an SR intervention developed in the USA (SPIRIT) for use in the Netherlands and to explore its applicability. Employing a participatory practice-based action research design, professionals, clients, and an advisory board collaborated in iterative cycles of translation, adaptation, discussion, and testing. The ongoin…
Integrating Spirituality in Group Psychotherapy with First Responders
First responders (e.g., fire fighters, law enforcement, paramedics, corrections officers) are at disproportionately high risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress and engaging in substance misuse. Spirituality is a potential source of resilience and recovery in the context of trauma and substance misuse; however, evidence-based clinical protocols integrating spirituality into group psychotherapy with first responders are rare. This article descri…
Community attitudes towards culture‐influenced mental illness
Culture may particularly influence community attitudes towards mental illness, when the illness itself is shaped by a cultural context. To explore the influence of culture‐specific, religious symptoms on Orthodox Jewish community attitudes, the authors compared the attitudes of 169 Orthodox Jews, who randomly viewed one of two vignettes describing either religious or nonreligious obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Results indicate that though p…
Are religious beliefs relevant to mental health among Jews
Although considerable evidence has linked religious beliefs to mental health among Protestant Christians, previous theory and research has emphasized that practices play a more important role than beliefs for Jews. Beliefs about God’s benevolence may be salient for Orthodox Jews, however, as such beliefs are central to traditional Jewish doctrine. Two studies were conducted to compare the extent to which religious beliefs predicted depression and…
The role of religiousness in anxiety, depression, and happiness in a Jewish community sample
Although social scientists have convincingly demonstrated relationships between religious beliefs/practices and mental health, almost none of the empirical findings or related theory apply specifically to Jews. To address this limitation, we investigated the role of Jewish religiousness in anxiety, depression, and happiness, in a large Jewish community sample (n = 565). Several facets of global Jewish religiousness were examined, as well as a the…
Do Spiritual Struggles Predict Poorer Physical/Mental Health Among Jews
Although spirituality and religion are generally associated with higher levels of physical and mental well-being, spiritual struggles, which involve tension in regard to spiritual issues, have been identified as a risk factor for poorer physical and mental health, especially among individuals with greater levels of personal religiousness. However, studies in this area have utilized predominantly Christian samples and the importance of spiritual s…
Community attitudes towards culture‐influenced mental illness
Culture may particularly influence community attitudes towards mental illness, when the illness itself is shaped by a cultural context. To explore the influence of culture‐specific, religious symptoms on Orthodox Jewish community attitudes, the authors compared the attitudes of 169 Orthodox Jews, who randomly viewed one of two vignettes describing either religious or nonreligious obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Results indicate that though p…
Does negative religious coping accompany, precede, or follow depression among Orthodox Jews?
Grateful to God or just plain grateful? A comparison of religious and general gratitude
Psychological science has consistently highlighted links between gratitude and religion, however mediating pathways by which religion relates to gratitude remain ambiguous. Further, it is unclear whether religious gratitude (e.g., gratitude to God) is more related to well-being than general gratitude. To address these gaps, we assessed for both religious and general dimensions of gratitude alongside measures of religious commitment and mental/phy…
Religious and Spiritual Factors in Depression
Depressive symptoms and religious/spiritual (R/S) practices are widespread around the world, but their intersection has received relatively little attention from mainstream mental health professionals. This paper reviews and synthesizes quantitative research examining relationships between R/S involvement and depressive symptoms or disorders during the last 50 years (1962 to 2011). At least 444 studies have now quantitatively examined these relat…
Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale
In Iran, a Middle Eastern Islamic country, far too little attention has been paid to the validation and cultural adaptation of measures of religion/spirituality. This has limited the potential for research in this area. The objective of the paper is to assess the psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale (BTMGS). After translation of the original English version of the measure into Farsi using a standar…
Poloma and Pendleton’s (1989) Prayer Types Scale in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim praying adults
Family size and psychological functioning in the Orthodox Jewish community
Caring for children is a known psychosocial stressor; however, its effects on psychological functioning may have substantial cross-cultural variance. We explored relationships between family size and a variety of psychological outcomes among Orthodox Jews in four separate studies: (1) an international treatment-seeking sample (n = 82), (2) a community sample from Canada (n = 226), (3) an out-patient clinical sample from greater New York (n = 82),…
Maintaining a grateful disposition in the face of distress
Despite a surge in psychological research on gratitude over the past several years, a number of important questions remain unanswered about this highly valued trait. It is largely unknown, for example, how gratitude is maintained in times of distress. This article supports and extends existing theory and research on the relevance of benefit detection (the perception of having received a gain rendered intentionally and voluntarily by another), by …
Calling for Awareness and Knowledge
Recent studies have demonstrated that when suffering or in psychological distress, religious clients tend to recover faster and with better outcomes when mental health professionals (MHPs) seek to integrate their clients’ religious beliefs and practices in psychotherapy. As described in the literature and highly-recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines, promotion of an accurate and sensitive integration of a client’s…
Religious coping across a spectrum of religious involvement among Jews
A Paradigm to Assess Implicit Attitudes towards God
The Pios among the pious
The Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS) is the most widely utilised measure of religious obsessive-compulsive disorder. While it has been studied in clinical and community samples, its psychometric properties have not been evaluated among highly religious Orthodox Jewish individuals. This is consequential, as scrupulosity is most likely to occur in religious contexts. In two studies, we examined its factorial structure, reliability, and concurr…
A call for collaboration
To assess the relationship and collaborations between mental health professionals and religious and spiritual leaders, eleven representatives of ten different religious affiliations in Portugal participated in this qualitative study. Major findings reported showed that religious leaders perceive themselves as important agents in promoting and preserving their congregants’ mental health, as well as aiding their recovery processes; however this occ…
Is Attachment to God a Unique Predictor of Mental Health? Test in a Jewish Sample
Research suggests that religion and spirituality generally correlate positively with various aspects of mental health, although mediators remain unclear. We explored whether attachment to God is a unique predictor above and beyond other key religious variables within a Jewish sample. Given the religion-as-culture perspective suggesting that Judaism can be characterized as primarily focused on behavior versus internal mental experiences, we expect…
Implicit and explicit attitudes towards God and life satisfaction
A Look at the First Quarantined Community in the USA
Covid-19, Mental Health, and Religious Coping Among American Orthodox Jews
My God, why have you abandoned me? Sexual abuse and attitudes towards God among Orthodox Jews
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) correlates with disruptions in core beliefs, which within Orthodox Judaism may be linked to God. We hypothesise that CSA may negatively alter attitudes towards God for some, while remaining unchanged or even activating this domain for others. This was tested in a sample of 136 individuals and results indicated that positive explicit beliefs about God differed between those who remained Orthodox and those who disaffili…
Religious Coping and Health and Well-Being among Jews and Muslims in Israel
This cross-sectional study used data from 486 Israeli Jews and Muslims to examine the phenomenon of religious coping among an Israeli sample. Participants were recruited in the context of two research projects on coping methods, one examining the stress of the Gaza war of 2014, and the other examining the stress of aging. Participants provided demographic information and completed measures of religious coping, satisfaction with life, and depressi…
Commentary on “Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health?”
The meta-analysis in this issue of the IJPR assesses whether religiosity and spirituality (R/S) affects “mental health” and how large that effect is based on evidence provided by longitudinal studi
Covid-19, Religious Coping, and Weight Change in the Orthodox Jewish Community
Does gender moderate effects of religion on anxiety among Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews
Studies examining religion's effects on mental health have insufficiently focused on basic moderators of observed effects. Given that Orthodox Jewish religious culture places greater ritual obligations on men than women, but is gender-equivalent regarding faith, we expected Orthodox Jewish men and women to experience different levels of anxiety in relation to religious practice but not intrinsic religiosity, and that no gender differences would e…
Psychology (35 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (32 works) · Clinical Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Mental health (17 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Judaism (15 works) · Spirituality (12 works) · Psychotherapist (11 works)