title: Psychological well-being among converts in traditional and nontraditional religious groups.
abstract: This study evaluated the psychological well-being of converts to religious groups foreign to Western culture in comparison to that of converts to mainstream religious groups. The subjects were 40 religious converts, members of four groups: Hare Krishna, Bahai, Jewish and Catholic. The results suggest a sudden upsurge of turmoil often triggered by a specific stressor as a more frequent antecedent to conversion among Jewish and Catholic subjects and a picture of chronic character difficulties as more frequent among the others.
authors.affiliation: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ullman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012925:Social Conformity