Turning toward or away from God: COVID-19 and changes in religious devotion.

ABSTRACT: Major stressors can influence religiosity, making some people more religious, while making others less religious. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a mixed-method study with a nationally representative sample of religiously affiliated American adults (N = 685) to assess group differences between those who decreased, stayed the same, or increased in their religious devotion. In quantitative analyses we evaluated differences on sociodemographic variables, religious behaviors, individual differences, prosocial emotions, well-being, and COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors. Of most note, those who changed (i.e., increased or decreased) in religious devotion were more likely than those with no change in devotion to experience high levels of stress and threat related to COVID-19, bu

SUBMITTER: Leonhardt ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994730 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature