Relations among religiosity, health, happiness, and anxiety for Kuwaiti adolescents.

Full 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.

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Author information

Author/s: Baroun, Khader A (KA);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 68168 Kaifan, Code No. 71962, Kuwait. KhaderBaroun(-atsign-)Hotmail.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychological reports (Psychol Rep), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Dec; vol 99 (issue 3) : pp 717-22

Dates: Created 2007/02/19; Completed 2007/03/15; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 17305187, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; psychology
Attitude to Health
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Developing Countries
Female
Happiness
Humans
Islam - psychology
Kuwait

Kuwait
Male
Motivation
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data
Religion and Psychology
Reproducibility of Results
Sex Factors
Statistics as Topic
Students - psychology

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