Religious/Spiritual Well-Being, Personality and Mental Health: A Review of Results and Conceptual Issues

Journal of Religion and Health

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 382-392

  Unterrainer, H F ^a,b   Lewis, A J ^c   Fink, A ^b  

^a CIAR Center for Integrative Addiction Research Grüner Kreis Society   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mental health; Personality factors; Religious coping; Spirituality; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 84894703484     PISSN: 00224197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-012-9642-5     Document Type: Article

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