@article{nooney_2005, title={Religion, stress, and mental health in adolescence: Findings from add health}, volume={46}, ISSN={["2211-4866"]}, DOI={10.2307/3512165}, abstractNote={A growing body of multidisciplinary research documents associations between religious involvement and mental health outcomes, yet the causal mechanisms linking them are not well understood. Ellison and his colleagues (2001) tested a series of hypotheses derived from the life stress paradigm which linked religious involvement to adult well-being and distress. In the present study those proposed mechanisms are tested in a population of adolescents, a particularly understudied group in religious research. Analysis of data from the National longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) reveals that religious involvement works to prevent the occurrence of school and health stressors, which reduces depression. For suicide ideation, religious involvement works to mobilize social resources. Implications for theory and research are discussed.}, number={4}, journal={REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH}, author={Nooney, JG}, year={2005}, month={Jun}, pages={341–354} }
 @article{nooney_woodrum_hoban_clifford_2003, title={Environmental worldview and behavior - Consequences of dimensionality in a survey of North Carolinians}, volume={35}, ISSN={["0013-9165"]}, DOI={10.1177/0013916503256246}, abstractNote={ This research investigates the potential dimensionality of environmental worldviews using a scale derived from the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). It delineates the substantive consequences of dimensionality for our understanding of environmental behavior and both demographic and religious correlates of environmentalism. We found that our NEP-based Scale of Worldview contained two distinct dimensions that were differentially predicted by demographic and religious variables. Of particular importance was the relationship of religious fundamentalism to the two subscales thereby highlighting the inherent religious implications of NEP item wording. In general, we found that Worldviews do not contribute substantially to the prediction of Environmental Behavior. Additionally, Worldviews do not allow us to account for demographic differences in the performance of Environmental Behavior. We concluded that environmental worldviews have limited policy implications given the lack of correspondence to behavior but that they remain an important prerequisite to such behavior which is deserving of careful study. }, number={6}, journal={ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR}, author={Nooney, JG and Woodrum, E and Hoban, TJ and Clifford, WB}, year={2003}, month={Nov}, pages={763–783} }
 @article{nooney_woodrum_2002, title={Religious coping and church-based social support as predictors of mental health outcomes: Testing a conceptual model}, volume={41}, ISSN={["0021-8294"]}, DOI={10.1111/1468-5906.00122}, abstractNote={This study assesses religious coping and church‐based social support as mechanisms explaining religious benefits to mental health. We build on recent research and test an explanatory model using the 1998 General Social Survey. The model considers both institutional and individual aspects of religiousness, and their interrelations, as predictors of mental health outcomes. It considers negative effects of religion along with the well‐known positive effects. We found that benefits of attendance, a measure of institutional participation, are mediated by church‐based social support. Benefits of prayer, an individual form of religiousness, are mediated by the similarly privatized religious coping. Institutional measures of religion were found to impact individuals’ religious coping styles. Implications are suggested for the scientific study of religion as well as for the applied efforts of clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay church members concerned with improving religious benefits.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION}, author={Nooney, J and Woodrum, E}, year={2002}, month={Jun}, pages={359–368} }