A study done by Professor Michael King, from University College London, and his fellow researchers found that people professing to be spiritual, but not conventionally religious, were more likely to suffer from a host of mental challenges, such as abnormal eating conditions, drug abuse, anxiety disorder, phobias and neurosis. They were also more likely than others to be taking medication for mental health problems.
The research group wrot in the British Journal of Psychiatry “Our main finding is that people who had a spiritual understanding of life had worse mental health than those with an understanding that was neither religious nor spiritual.”
The study was based on a survey of 7,403 randomly selected men and women in England about their spiritualand religious beliefs, and mental state.
35% described themselves as “religious”, meaning they attended a church, mosque, synagogue or temple. (86% were christian)
19% claimed to have spiritual beliefs or experiences without following a specific religion.
46% were neither religious nor spiritual.
Of the different groups, spiritual people were 50% more likely to have a generalised anxiety disorder and 72% higher chance of being dependent on drugs and were 37% more at risk of neurotic disorder. Spirituality was also associated with a 40% greater likelihood of receiving treatment with psychotropic drugs.
The study found that people of religious faith and those with none also experienced equal levels of mental health problems, but there were less problems with drugs and alcohol among the believers.
Unlike some American studies, this research found no clear relationship between religious belief and happiness. One recent large internet study in the United States reported that non-religious people with spiritual belifs were emotionally less stable than other groups. However, they made up only 2% of the study sample.
The researchers wrote “We conclude that there is increasing evidence that people who profess spiritual belifs in the absence of a religious framework are more vulnerable to mental disorder. The nature of this association needs greater examination in qualitative and in prospective quantitative research.”
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