ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Understanding the Association between Spirituality and Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescents in India and the United Arab Emirates
- 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