Religiosity and its association with subjective well-being and depression among Kuwaiti and Palestinian Muslim children and adolescents

The present study sought to investigate the association of religiosity and the self-ratings of happiness, satisfaction with life, mental health, physical health, and depression among Kuwaiti (N = 1937) and Palestinian (N = 1009) Muslim children and adolescents (M age = 14.1, SD = 1.4). They responde...

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Authors: Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M. (Author) ; Eid, Ghada K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2011
In: Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2011, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-127
Further subjects:B Subjective well-being
B Happiness
B Satisfaction with life
B Depression
B Mental Health
B Kuwait
B Religiosity
B Palestine
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Summary:The present study sought to investigate the association of religiosity and the self-ratings of happiness, satisfaction with life, mental health, physical health, and depression among Kuwaiti (N = 1937) and Palestinian (N = 1009) Muslim children and adolescents (M age = 14.1, SD = 1.4). They responded to five self-rating scales and the Multidimensional Child and Adolescent Depression Scale. It was found that Palestinian males were significantly less religious than all other groups, while Kuwaiti males and females had significantly higher mean scores on happiness and satisfaction than Palestinians. Kuwaiti males had significantly higher mental health and less depression than all other groups. Among all the four groups, the correlations between religiosity and well-being rating scales were positively significant, but negatively significant with depression. The principal components analysis yielded a single salient factor for all groups and labelled "Religiosity and well-being vs. depression." It was concluded that clinicians treating depression will probably make use of its negative association with religiosity mainly among Muslim clients.
ISSN:1469-9737
Contains:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674670903540951