Different facets of religiosity and their longitudinal associations with psychotic-like experiences in the general population.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology February 1, 2026 Błażej Misiak, Julian Maciaszek 1 citation
Religiosity has multiple dimensions: intrinsic, extrinsic organizational, and extrinsic non-organizational. A longitudinal study of 5,099 general population adults, followed for 6–7 months, found bidirectional associations between intrinsic religiosity and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and related distress. PLEs and distress also predicted higher levels of extrinsic non-organizational religiosity, but not its changes over time. These associations had small effect sizes. No significant associations emerged for extrinsic organizational religiosity. The findings suggest complex, reciprocal links between more intimate forms of religiosity and PLEs.