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dc.contributor.authorJung, Jong Hyunen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T06:39:39Z-
dc.date.available2020-08-13T06:39:39Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationJung, J. H. (2020). Belief in supernatural evil and mental health : do secure attachment to god and gender matter? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 59(1), 141-160. doi:10.1111/jssr.12645en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-8294en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10356/143219-
dc.description.abstractThis study examines whether belief in supernatural evil is associated with mental health. In addition, it assesses how secure attachment to God moderates this association and how gender conditions the moderating effect of secure attachment to God. Among a variety of mental health outcomes, this study focuses on general mental health problems as well as anxiety-related disorders (e.g., general anxiety, social anxiety, and paranoia). Using data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1,627), the analyses reveal that belief in supernatural evil is positively associated with general anxiety and paranoia. In addition, secure attachment to God buffers the positive associations between belief in supernatural evil and social anxiety and paranoia. Yet, when general mental health problems and general anxiety serve as the outcome measures, secure attachment to God attenuates the positive associations of belief in supernatural evil with mental health only for women, but not men. These results underscore the ways that religious beliefs have both positive and negative implications for mental health. Furthermore, they highlight the importance of gender in the complex relationships between religious beliefs and mental health.en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofJournal for the Scientific Study of Religionen_US
dc.rights© 2020 The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. All rights reserved. This paper was published by Wiley in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and is made available with permission of The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.en_US
dc.subjectSocial sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.titleBelief in supernatural evil and mental health : do secure attachment to god and gender matter?en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jssr.12645-
dc.description.versionAccepted versionen_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85078682838-
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.volume59en_US
dc.identifier.spage141en_US
dc.identifier.epage160en_US
dc.subject.keywordsReligionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMental Healthen_US
dc.description.acknowledgementThis publication was made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at The University of Oklahoma. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation, the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, or The University of Oklahoma.en_US
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