RT Article
T1 Relationships Among Belief in God, Well-Being, and Social Capital in the 2020 European and World Values Surveys: Distinguishing Interpersonal and Ideological Prosociality
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 61
IS 3
SP 2569
OP 2588
A1 Nezlek, John B. 1952-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1805373528
AB Analyses of the 2020 combined European and World Values Surveys (124,958 respondents from 77 countries) found that people who believed in God tended to be happier, more satisfied with lives, and healthier than non-believers. Believers trusted people close to them (e.g., neighbors) more than non-believers, although non-believers tended to trust people in general and trust people from other countries more than believers. Non-believers tended to be more ideologically prosocial than non-believers (e.g., belonging to an environmental organization, advocating freedom of speech vs. control). Such differences were stronger in countries in which there were more vs fewer believers. Moreover, these differences remained after controlling for individual differences in sex, age, education, income, and left-right political orientation.
K1 Belief in God
K1 European Values Survey
K1 Prosocial
K1 Religiosity
K1 Well-being
K1 World Values Survey
DO 10.1007/s10943-021-01411-6