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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
Journal
Religion, Brain & Behavior
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Hoogeveen, Suzanne
Sarafoglou, Alexandra
Aczel, Balazs
Aditya, Yonathan
Alayan, Alexandra
Allen, Peter
Altay, Sacha
Alzahawi, Shilaan
Hagel, Nandor
Hajdu, Hannah
Hamilton, Imaduddin
Hamzah, Paul
Hanel, Christopher
Hawk, Karel
Himawan, Benjamin
Holding, Lina
Homman, Moritz
Ingendahl, Hilla
Inkilä, Mary
Inman, Chris-Gabriel
Islam, Ozan
Isler, David
Izydorczyk, Bastian
Jaeger, Kathryn
Johnson, Jonathan
Jong, Johannes
Karl, Erikson
Kaszubowski, Benjamin
Katz, Lucas
Keefer, Stijn
Kelchtermans, John
Kelly, Richard
Klein, Bennett
Kleinberg, Megan
Knowles, Marta
Kołczyńska, Dave
Koller, Julia
Krasko, Sarah
Kritzler, Angelos-Miltiadis
Krypotos, Thanos
Kyritsis, Todd
Landes, Ruben
Laukenmann, Guy
Forsyth, Aryeh
Lazar, Barbara
Lehman, Neil
Levy, Ronda
Lo, Paul
Lodder, Jennifer
Lorenz, Paweł
Łowicki, Albert
Ly, Esther
Maassen, Gina
Magyar-Russell, Maximilian
Maier, Dylan
Marsh, Nuria
Martinez, Marcellin
Martinie, Ihan
Martoyo, Susan
Mason, Anne
Mauritsen, Phil
Mcaleer, Thomas
Mccauley, Michael
Mccullough, Ryan
Mckay, Camilla
Mcmahon, Amelia
Mcnamara, Kira
Means, Brett
Mercier, Panagiotis
Mitkidis, Benoît
Monin, Jordan
Moon, David
Moreau, Jonathan
Morgan, James
Murphy, George
Muscatt, Christof
Nägel, Tamás
Nagy, Ladislas
Nalborczyk, Gustav
Nilsonne, Pamina
Noack, Ara
Norenzayan, Michèle
Nuijten, Anton
Olsson-Collentine, Lluis
Oviedo, Yuri
Pavlov, James
Pawelski, Hannah
Pearson, Hugo
Pedder, Hannah
Peetz, Michael
Pinus, Steven
Pirutinsky, Vince
Polito, Michaela
Porubanova, Michael
Poulin, Jason
Prenoveau, Mark
Prince, John
Abstract
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported β=0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported β=0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
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