Religiosity, Wellbeing, and Perception of Interreligious Threats
Description
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and extended periods of lockdown worldwide have contributed to rising mental health issues, particularly among young adults. While there are many factors that contribute to one’s mental health, studies have also shown an ambivalent relationship between religiosity / spirituality and mental health, with religion often being used as a coping mechanism.
Data is collected for this study with the aim to describe the relationship between religion and psychological wellbeing in the religiously diverse landscape of Malaysia by measuring the following elements: religiosity, religious emotions, interreligious perceptions of threats and discrimination, subjective wellbeing, and social-psychological wellbeing.
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Subjects
- Psychology and religion -- Malaysia
- Spirituality -- Psychological aspects
- Mental health -- Malaysia
- Well-being -- Malaysia
- religiosity, wellbeing, threat, discrimination
- Social Studies::Sociology::Religion in society
- B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion::BF Psychology
Divisions
- University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus
Research institutes and centres
- University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus
Deposit date
2022-12-20Data type
QuestionnairesContributors
- Koh, Kai Seng
- Gan, Wendy Siew Wei
- Sow, Jacob Tian You
Funders
- None
Collection dates
- March to July 2022
Coverage
- Malaysia
Data collection method
Questionnaire administered via Qualtrics and includes the following psychometric instruments: Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-20), inventory of Emotions towards God, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Flourishing Scale, and two questionnaires that we adapted to measure perceptions of interreligious threat and discrimination.Resource languages
- en