Religion, Spirituality, and Subjective Well-Being: A Study on Event Centrality and Fear of Death in Argentine Jewish Immigrants in Israel

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https://doi.org/10.62174/psocial.11055

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spirituality, religion, event centrality, death anxiety, immigrants, subjective well-being, Argentina, Israel

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This study examined how religion, spirituality, centrality of events, and fear of death relate to subjective well-being (SWB) among Argentine Jewish immigrants living in Israel. Twenty-six adults completed validated measures of life satisfaction and affect, spiritual transcendence, religious involvement and coping, event centrality, and fear of death (self/others). Given the small sample (N = 26), confidence intervals were obtained via bootstrap resampling. Spirituality was positively associated with life satisfaction, and religious involvement correlated with both spirituality and religious coping. Fear of one’s own death related negatively to positive affect and positively to negative affect; fear of others’ death was also positively related to negative affect. Event centrality showed no significant associations with SWB indicators. Findings suggest that meaning-focused spiritual resources, rather than religious involvement per se, are more proximally linked to well-being, whereas mortality concerns align with adverse affective profiles. Results are exploratory given the convenience sample and cross-sectional design; implications point to meaning-centered and death-education supports for immigrant mental health.

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2026-02-06

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