ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Understanding the Association between Spirituality and Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescents in India and the United Arab Emirates

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Delshad Shroff
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Antje von Suchodoletz
    New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Rosanna Breaux
    Virginia Tech

Abstract

Understanding the relation between spirituality and mental health in adolescents from diverse religious backgrounds and non-Western cultures is clearly warranted and clinically relevant. The present study demonstrates that spirituality is associated with greater life satisfaction and less internalizing symptoms, with self-control mediating and country moderating these associations.

Self-Control