Religiosity, health, and psychopathology in two cultures: Kuwait and USA.
To explore the associations between religiosity, health, and psychopathology, samples of 460 Kuwaiti and 274 American college students were recruited. Religiosity, pessimism, anxiety, obsession-compulsion, death obsession, and ego-grasping were significantly higher among the Kuwaitis than among thei...
| Publicado en: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 537 - 551 |
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Sep2007
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