title: Relations among religiosity, health, happiness, and anxiety for Kuwaiti adolescents.
abstract: The present study investigated correlations among religiosity, health, happiness, and anxiety for 941 Kuwaiti adolescents. A convenience sample of male (n=408) and female (n=533) students (M age = 16.5, SD = 1.2 yr.) was randomly selected from secondary school students of different districts of the State of Kuwait. The Intrinsic Religious Motivation scale, the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale, and six self-rating scales assessing religiosity, strength of religious belief, physical health, mental health, happiness, and life satisfaction were applied to assess correlations among Kuwaiti adolescents. Analysis showed boys had significantly higher mean scores than girls on all measures except anxiety, on which girls scored significantly higher than boys. There also were significant and positive correlations among the variables, except for anxiety, which was significant and negative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 68168 Kaifan, Code No. 71962, Kuwait. KhaderBaroun@Hotmail.com
authors.forename: Khader A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Baroun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D007730:Kuwait; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*