Mental Status and Religious Behavior

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research upon which this paper is based was supported by PHS Contract No. 43-67-743 and Research Grant MH 15522. National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. 1. In a research note, R. Hugh Burns and Aubrey Daniels, in Attitudes among Psychiatric Patients and Normals, Journalfor the Scientific Study of Religion 8, no. 1 (Spring 1969): 165, discussed differences in church attendance and religious outlook between a patient and a nonpatient population. See also Irving E. Bender, Longitudinal Study of Church Attenders and Nonattenders, ibid. 7, no. 2 (1968): 230-37; George W. Bohrnstedt, Edgar F. Borgatta, et al., Affiliation, Religiosity and MMPI Scores, ibid.: 255-58; Richard E. Carney and Wilbert J. McKeachie, Religion, Sex, Social Class, Probability of Success and Student Personality, ibid. 3, no. 1 (1963): 32-42; Andrew M. Greeley, The Religious Behavior of Graduate Students, ibid. 5, no. 1 (1965): 34-40; Jacob Jay Lindenthal, The Delayed Decision to Enter the Ministry: A Study in Occupational Change (doctoral diss., Yale University, 1967); Rodney Stark, On the Incompatibility of Religion and Science: A Survey of American Graduate Students, journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 3, no. 1 (1963): 3-20.