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Effects of Religious Service Attendance and Religious Importance on Depression: Examining the Meta-analytic Evidence
ABSTRACT Garssen et al. provide meta-analytic evidence, from longitudinal studies with control for baseline outcomes, for protective associations of religious service attendance and religious importance with subsequent depression. The present commentary considers whether or not these associations might be causal, and what the practical relevance of these associations might be. Further discussion is given to the methodological considerations that are important for advancing our understanding of the relationship between religion and mental health. More meta-analyses of the type conducted by Garssen et al. (i.e. restricted to longitudinal studies with control for baseline outcome) should be carried out with other health and well-being outcomes. To better establish the evidence base, cross-sectional studies should be excluded from meta-analyses.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.