Health and Spirituality

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1. Spirituality is the sensitivity or attachment to religious values, or to things of the spirit as opposed to ____ interests.

  a. current

  b. wordly

  c. church

  d. all of the above


2. Several studies conducted in the past few years have found that spirituality and religion may help buffer the effects of ___

  a. over eating

  b. many illnesses

  c. cancer

  d. stress


3. A recent study conducted at Duke University examined the role of religion in recovering from depression. They discovered that religion can ___ people recover from depression.

  a. not help

  b. help

  c. sometimes help

  d. always help


4. Researchers found that the daughters of women who considered religion to be highly important were ___ percent less likely to have a major depressive disorder at the 10 year follow-up

  a. 30

  b. 40

  c. 50

  d. 60


5. Should we continue to pray for healing, even if it doesn't always work?

  a. no

  b. yes

  c. maybe


6. Older Americans' chances of living longer are stretched by ___ percent when they attend religious meetings each week - even after considering key health and social factors which also could lengthen lives - found a new study published in this month's Journal of Gerontology.

  a. 28

  b. 38

  c. 48

  d. 58


7. ___ are more likely to pray, to rate religion as important in their lives and to depend on religion to cope, which perhaps conveys greater health benefits than merely attending religious services.

  a. men

  b. women

  c. boys

  d. girls


8. When a child dies by their own hand in suicide, parents' grief over the loss of a child can be compounded by ____

  a. anger

  b. dissapointmnet

  c. loneliness

  d. rejection


9. In ____ therapy, the therapists first help the parent face and release their feelings toward the dead child and an "unjust" world.

  a. reality

  b. forgiveness

  c. grief

  d. behavioral


10. Christianity is the religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus Christ: the religion that believes in God as the ____

  a. Father Almighty

  b. Savior

  c. Giver

  d. Helper


11. Forgiveness is defined as the process in which one person renounces ____ about an offense and is freed to extend good will to the offender.

  a. guilt

  b. thinking

  c. resentment


12. From the Bible: Confess your transgressions one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be ___.

  a. helped

  b. comforted

  c. healed

  d. saved