| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale: Development and initial validation. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2014 | 393 |
| 2 | Awe activates religious and spiritual feelings and behavioral intentions. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2012 | 237 |
| 3 | Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: Implications for physical and mental health research. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2008 | 228 |
| 4 | Spirituality and religion in the workplace: History, theory, and research. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2014 | 221 |
| 5 | The current status of measures of spirituality: A critical review of scale development. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 204 |
| 6 | Religiosity and prejudice revisited: In-group favoritism, out-group derogation, or both? | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2012 | 192 |
| 7 | Associations among religiousness, social attitudes, and prejudice in a national random sample of American adults. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 153 |
| 8 | The emerging role of Buddhism in clinical psychology: Toward effective integration. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2014 | 152 |
| 9 | Examining the relation of religion and spirituality to subjective well-being across national cultures. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 140 |
| 10 | Research on religion/spirituality and forgiveness: A meta-analytic review. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 137 |
| 11 | Religious coping among diverse religions: Commonalities and divergences. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2015 | 137 |
| 12 | Spiritual and religious competencies for psychologists. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 128 |
| 13 | Development, refinement, and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward God Scale (ATGS-9). | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 125 |
| 14 | Friends in high places: The influence of authoritarian and benevolent god-concepts on social attitudes and behaviors. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 125 |
| 15 | Differing pathways between religiousness, spirituality, and health: A self-regulation perspective. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2014 | 123 |
| 16 | Psychology, meaning making, and the study of worldviews: Beyond religion and non-religion. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2018 | 122 |
| 17 | “I believe it is wrong but I still do it”: A comparison of religious young men who do versus do not use pornography. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 120 |
| 18 | Hope: Its nature and measurement. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 118 |
| 19 | Religiousness, spirituality, and psychosocial functioning in late adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal study. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2008 | 112 |
| 20 | Choice, free will, and religion. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 109 |
| 21 | How does religiosity enhance well-being? The role of perceived control. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 109 |
| 22 | The empirical and conceptual value of the spiritual transcendence and religious involvement scales for personality research. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 108 |
| 23 | Can prayer increase gratitude? | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 105 |
| 24 | Meditative prayer, hope, adult attachment, and forgiveness: A proposed model. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 100 |
| 25 | God images and god concepts: Definitions, development, and dynamics. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 99 |
| 26 | Forgiveness as a mediator of the religiosity—health relationship. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 93 |
| 27 | The unique contributions of positive and negative religious coping to posttraumatic growth and PTSD. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 88 |
| 28 | Religion, meaning and purpose, and mental health. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2015 | 82 |
| 29 | Parent and peer relationships and relational spirituality in adolescents and young adults. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 76 |
| 30 | Religiosity and adolescent empathy and aggression: The mediating role of moral identity. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2012 | 76 |
| 31 | The mind of the Lord: Measuring authoritarian and benevolent God representations. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2015 | 74 |
| 32 | Positive and negative religious coping styles as prospective predictors of well-being in African Americans. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2018 | 74 |
| 33 | Examining coping methods with stressful interpersonal events experienced by Muslims living in the United States following the 9/11 attacks. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 70 |
| 34 | Forgiveness, spiritual instability, mental health symptoms, and well-being: Mediator effects of differentiation of self. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 67 |
| 35 | On the varieties of sexual experience: Cross-cultural links between religiosity and human mating strategies. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2015 | 66 |
| 36 | Religious coping, stress, and depressive symptoms among adolescents: A prospective study. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2012 | 65 |
| 37 | Bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth: A matched control group investigation. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 65 |
| 38 | Enhancing marital enrichment through spirituality: Efficacy data for prayer focused relationship enhancement. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 64 |
| 39 | National trends in prayer use as a coping mechanism for health concerns: Changes from 2002 to 2007. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2011 | 64 |
| 40 | Sanctification of parenting, moral socialization, and young children's conscience development. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 63 |
| 41 | The implications of workplace spirituality for person–environment fit theory. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2017 | 63 |
| 42 | Spirituality and religiosity as cross-cultural aspects of human experience. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 62 |
| 43 | Are religious beliefs relevant to mental health among Jews? | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2009 | 61 |
| 44 | Personality, religious and spiritual struggles, and well-being. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2016 | 61 |
| 45 | Partnering with God: Religious coping and perceptions of divine intervention predict spiritual transformation in response to religious−spiritual struggle. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2019 | 60 |
| 46 | Religion in the home in the 1980s and 1990s: A meta-analytic review and conceptual analysis of links between religion, marriage, and parenting. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2008 | 59 |
| 47 | I deserve better and god knows it! Psychological entitlement as a robust predictor of anger at God. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2013 | 58 |
| 48 | Pathways from religion to health: Mediation by psychosocial and lifestyle mechanisms. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2017 | 57 |
| 49 | Anger, exit, and assertion: Do people see protest toward God as morally acceptable? | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2012 | 56 |
| 50 | Pathways to posttraumatic growth: The contributions of forgiveness and importance of religion and spirituality. | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | 2010 | 55 |
