David B. Larson

TL;DR: In this article, a set of criteria that recognize the constructs' conceptual similarities and dissimilarities are proposed as benchmarks for judging the value of existing definitions of spirituality and religiousness.

TL;DR: The personality and social factors that are associated with gratitude are consistent with a conceptualization of gratitude as an affect that is relevant to people's cognitions and behaviors in the moral domain.

TL;DR: Although the strength of the religious involvement-mortality association varied as a function of several moderator variables, the association of religious involvement and mortality was robust and on the order of magnitude that has come to be expected for psychosocial factors.

TL;DR: A review of the social and psychological factors that have been hypothesized to explain the health-promoting effects of religious involvement can be found in this article, where four potential psychosocial mechanisms that have received empirical attention are health practices, social support, psycho-social resources such as self-esteem and selfefficacy, and belief structures such as sense of coherence.

TL;DR: The relationship between spirituality and health has been studied extensively as mentioned in this paper. But, as stated by the authors, "the effect sizes are moderate, and there typically are links between religious practices and reduced onset of physical and mental illnesses, reduced mortality, and likelihood of recovery from or adjustment to physical or mental illness".