title: Religious/Spiritual Well-being, personality and mental health: a review of results and conceptual issues.
abstract: The current paper provides background to the development of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-being and then summarises findings derived from its use with other measures of health and personality. There is substantial evidence for religiosity/spirituality being positively related to a variety of indicators of mental health, including subjective well-being and personality dimensions. Furthermore, religiosity/spirituality can play an important role in the process of recovering from mental illness as well as providing a protective function against addictive or suicidal behaviours. However, further research is needed to examine the mechanisms through which religiosity/spirituality have an impact on health-related conditions.
authors.affiliation: Center for Integrative Addiction Research (Grüner Kreis Society/ARS), Vienna, Austria, human.unterrainer@uni-graz.at.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Unterrainer
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fink
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires