Larson D B, Sherrill K A, Lyons J S, Craigie F C, Thielman S B, Greenwold M A, Larson S S
NIMH, Rockville, Md.
Am J Psychiatry. 1992 Apr;149(4):557-9. doi: 10.1176/ajp.149.4.557.
The authors assessed all measures of religious commitment (N = 139) reported in research studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry in 1978 through 1989 (N less than 35). For nearly two-thirds of the measures, the studies either made no hypotheses or reported no results concerning the relationship of religious commitment to mental health status. For the great majority of the measures assessed, the studies reported a positive relationship between religious commitment and mental health.
作者评估了1978年至1989年发表在美国《精神病学杂志》和《普通精神病学文献》上的研究报告中所有关于宗教虔诚度的衡量指标（N = 139）（N小于35）。对于近三分之二的衡量指标，这些研究要么没有提出假设，要么没有报告宗教虔诚度与心理健康状况之间关系的结果。对于所评估的绝大多数衡量指标，研究报告了宗教虔诚度与心理健康之间的正相关关系。
