@article{c76ac1d3a95a4d2597b3271d2ad2018e,
title = "The Association of Prayer Frequency and Maslow{\textquoteright}s Hierarchy of Needs: A Comparative Study of the USA, India and Turkey",
abstract = "This study explores whether Maslow{\textquoteright}s hierarchy of needs and Inglehart{\textquoteright}s values paradigm underlies associations between prayer frequency and happiness. Responses from a comparative analysis of wave six from the World Values Survey for India (n = 4078), Turkey (n = 1605) and the USA (n = 2232) were used to examine associations between prayer frequency and happiness. Prayer frequency interacted with Maslow{\textquoteright}s model to associate with happiness in India and Turkey. The self-expression variables entirely supplant prayer and are associated with happiness in the USA. The implications are discussed for generating models that impact happiness.",
keywords = "Happiness, India, Prayer, The USA, Turkey",
author = "Michael Babula",
note = "Funding Information: The ethics committee approved this study at Khalifa University (Project # H20-010) as part of a larger funded project (FSU 2019–06), and the WVS is approved by the Institute for Comparative Survey research institutional review board. As part of the procedure for administering the WVS, the interviewers read a script to respondents prior to obtaining oral consent in the countries under investigation in this study. Funding Information: The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for this manuscript: This work was supported by Khalifa University{\textquoteright}s Faculty Start-Up funds [project number: FSU 2019-06]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/s10943-022-01649-8",
language = "British English",
journal = "Journal of Religion and Health",
issn = "0022-4197",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc.",
}