Can spirituality help mental health?

Magic 1278 Health with Gerald Quigley
November 22, 2012

Spirituality can be uplifting for your mental health. In a University survey, people in five faiths specifically showed better mental health, reflected as having lower levels of neuroticism, along with greater extraversion.
After considering personality variables, the research concluded that forgiveness was the only spiritual trait predictive of mental health.
Spirituality may help people’s mental health by reducing their self-centredness, and developing their sense of belonging to a larger whole.
In fact, spirituality functions as a personality trait. This relationship between spirituality and health, will prove helpful in health care.
(Journal of Religion and Health Aug 25th 2012)