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English
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Religious Life-Styles and Mental Health
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Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints
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Provo, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center
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1-32
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"This study is an in-depth analysis of the relationship between religious commitment and mental health in a sample consisting of sixty Latter-day Saint students attending Brigham Young University. Information was obtained from intensive interviews and assessments at the beginning of the study and at the end of a three-year waiting period.
"Data were obtained from students whose religious development was judged to be continuous (consistent and smooth over their life span) and students whose religiousness was discontinuous (high and low over their life span). While those respondents whose religious development was considered to be continuous generally appeared to be more mentally healthy than those categorized as discontinuous, all test-score means were judged to be within normal limits. The test scores obtained from this sample of religious students demonstrates no correspondence, for the group generally, between religious commitment and psychopathology. The findings from this study suggest that living a religious life can be associated with better mental health." [Abstract from chapter]