TY - JOUR
T1 - A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
AU - Hoogeveen, Suzanne
AU - Sarafoglou, Alexandra
AU - Aczel, Balazs
AU - Aditya, Yonathan
AU - Alayan, Alexandra J.
AU - Allen, Peter J.
AU - Altay, Sacha
AU - Alzahawi, Shilaan
AU - Amir, Yulmaida
AU - Anthony, Francis-Vincent
AU - Appiah, Obed Kwame
AU - Atkinson, Quentin D.
AU - Baimel, Adam
AU - Balkaya-Ince, Merve
AU - Balsamo, Michela
AU - Banker, Sachin
AU - Bartos, Frantisek
AU - Becerra, Mario
AU - Beffara, Bertrand
AU - Beitner, Julia
AU - Bendixen, Theiss
AU - Berkessel, Jana B.
AU - Berniunas, Renatas
AU - Billet, Matthew
AU - Billingsley, Joseph
AU - Bortolini, Tiago
AU - Breitsohl, Heiko
AU - Bret, Amelie
AU - Brown, Faith L.
AU - Brown, Jennifer
AU - Brumbaugh, Claudia C.
AU - Buczny, Jacek
AU - Bulbulia, Joseph
AU - Caballero, Saul
AU - Carlucci, Leonardo
AU - Carmichael, Cheryl L.
AU - Cattaneo, Marco E. G.
AU - Charles, Sarah J.
AU - Claessens, Scott
AU - Panagopoulos, Maxinne C.
AU - Costa, Angelo Brandelli
AU - Crone, Damien L.
AU - Czoschke, Stefan
AU - de Vries, Ymkje Anna
AU - Klein, Richard A.
AU - Simsek, Muge
AU - Smith, Eliot R.
AU - Stoevenbelt, Andrea H.
AU - van Ravenzwaaij, Don
AU - Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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 beta = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported beta = 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.
AB - 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 beta = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported beta = 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.
KW - Health
KW - many analysts
KW - open science
KW - religion
KW - MENTAL-HEALTH
KW - PEOPLE HAPPY
KW - LIFE
KW - SPIRITUALITY
KW - REPLICATION
KW - INVOLVEMENT
KW - PERSPECTIVE
KW - CONSENSUS
KW - HAPPINESS
KW - CULTURE
U2 - 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
DO - 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
M3 - Article
SN - 2153-599X
VL - 13
SP - 237
EP - 283
JO - Religion brain & behavior
JF - Religion brain & behavior
IS - 3
ER -