RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND MENTAL HEALTH

Conception of mental health	Positive	None	Negative	Total
Abscence of illness	17	12	04	33
Appropriate social behaviour	12	04	05	21
Freedom from worry and guilt	04	03	05	12
Personal competence and control	02	02	11	15
Self acceptance, actualization	02	06	11	19
Unification and organization	00	01	00	01
Open mindedness & Flexibility	00	03	11	14
Total	37	31	47	115

(Line score chart on the relation between mental health and religion)
The research on the relationship between mental helath and religion was based on seven concepts. The table above, which is procured from 'Religion and the Individual' by David Batson shows the line score of the results obtained. They give only a partial answer to the correlation between religion and mental health. 'Therfore if we do not find such a correlation, we have evidence that religion does not cause health. Yet even if we do find such a correlation, this does not provide clear evidence that religion causes health.'

The results of the above research reveals that more than mental health religion is connected to mental sickness.