Unusual but sound minds
Mental health indicators in spiritual individuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5268232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Farias (0000-0001-5925-795X, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Raphael Underwood (0000-0001-8797-6476, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Gordon Claridge (University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 364-381 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02128.x |
| PMID | 23848387 |
| OpenAlex | W1483864140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 58 |
Previous research has linked certain types of modern spirituality, including New Age and Pagan, with either benign schizotypy or insecure attachment. While the first view emphasizes a positive aspect of spiritual believers' mental health (benign schizotypy), the second view emphasizes a negative aspect, namely the unhealthy emotional compensation associated with an insecure attachment style. This study addresses these two conflicting views by comparing a sample of modern spiritual individuals (N = 114) with a contrast group of traditional religious believers (N = 86). Measures of schizotypy and attachment style were combined with mental health scales of anxiety and depression. We further assessed death anxiety to determine whether modern spiritual beliefs fulfilled a similar function as traditional religious beliefs in the reduction of existential threat. Our results support a psychological contiguity between traditional and modern spiritual believers and reinforce the need to de-stigmatize spiritual ideas and experiences. Using hierarchical regression, we showed that unusual experiences and ideas are the major predictor of engagement in modern spiritual practices. Anxiety, depression variables, and insecure attachment were not significant predictors of spirituality or correlated with them; on the other hand, the results show that spiritual believers report high social support satisfaction and this variable predicts involvement in modern spirituality. Further, spiritual practices were negatively correlated with and negatively predicted by death anxiety scores. Overall, the results strengthen the association between modern spirituality, good mental health, and general well-being
Acoustics · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Mental health · Psychiatry · Sound (geography) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
What Julian Saw
Espiritualidade e saúde
Modelos de personalidade e a diferenciação entre experiências anômalas saudáveis e patológicas em contexto religioso
Past Life Meditation Decreases Existential Death Anxiety and Increases Meaning in Life among Individuals Who Believe in the Paranormal
Eccentricity
Explaining the Esoteric Imagination
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind
A Primer on Celtic Spirituality with Recommendations for Counseling Practice
Comparison of the Role of Different Levels of Religiousness and Spirituality in Controversial Ethical Issues and Clinical Practice among Brazilian Resident Physicians
Risk and Resilience Factors in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Youth during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Attachment, religiousness, and distress among the religious and spiritual
Spiritual experiences hallucination phenomenology associated with spiritual experiences in a non-clinical population
The Effects of Spirituality on Depression, Anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Concept of Spirituality in the Health Sector
The Impasse of Anomalous Experiences in Mental Health
Mental health, family functioning, and sleep in cultural context among American Indian/Alaska Native urban youth
Spiritual Struggles of Nones and 'Spiritual but Not Religious' (SBNRs)
Centrality of Religiosity, Schizotypy, and Human Values
New Age Religion and Western Culture
A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior
Human Research and Data Collection via the Internet
Parental attachment and adolescents' emotional adjustment
Attachment and Religiosity in Adolescence
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
The experience of altered states of consciousness in shamanic ritual
Online Data Collection
The influence of religion on death anxiety and death acceptance
Spiritual But Not Religious? Evidence for Two Independent Dispositions
Death Anxiety in Religiously Very Involved Persons
Death Anxiety among Chinese Elderly People in Hong Kong
Clinical and Personality Assessment of Participants in New Religions
Research
The collett-lester fear of death scale
Religious correlates of fear of death among Saudi Arabians
Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction in young Catholics and Protestants
Examining relations among attachment, religiosity, and new age spirituality using the Adult Attachment Interview
Evidence for terror management theory
Religiousness and Perceived Childhood Attachment
A Terror Management Analysis of the Psychological Functions of Religion
Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process
Who Lives in Utopia? A Brief Report on the Rajneeshpuram Research Project
Adult Attachment Styles, Perceived Social Support and Coping Strategies
A Brief Measure of Social Support
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft
Religious Involvement, Social Ties, and Social Support in a Southeastern Community
Holistic Individualism in the Age of Aquarius
Seeking Security in the New Age
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |