Sam A. Hardy

Brigham Young University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

39h-index6.0kcitations136works2.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology(55), Religion and Society Interactions(27), Religion, Society, and Development(18), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development(14), Identity, Memory, and Therapy(13)

Publications136 total

Adolescent Religiosity and Psychological Functioning During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Journal of Adolescence·2025
Religious Dones Become More Politically Liberal After Leaving Religion
Journal of Personality·2025
Longitudinal Associations and Interactions of Adolescent Religious Deidentification and Parental Sanctification on parent-Adolescent Relationships
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Religious Deidentification and Positive and Negative Youth Functioning in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion·2025· 1 cited
More Than Grateful: Interpersonal Gratitude Cultivates Empathy and Transcendent Indebtedness, Leading to Prosocial Behavior
2025Open Access
What factors buffer the effects of parent–adolescent religious discrepancy to preserve parent–child connectedness?
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2025
The temporal relationship between religious motivations and purpose: A cross-lagged panel model approach.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2024· 1 cited
Individual, family, peer, and religious community predictors of adolescent religious deidentification
Applied Developmental Science·2024· 2 cited
Epiphanies and Quantum Change
2024
Religious deconversion in adolescence and young adulthood: A literature review
Archive for the Psychology of Religion·2024· 24 cited
The past, present, and future of research on religious and spiritual development in adolescence, young adulthood, and beyond
Archive for the Psychology of Religion·2024· 3 cited
Does Leaving Faith Mean Leaving Family? Longitudinal Associations Between Religious Identification and Parent‐Child Relationships Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Unpacking the role of adolescent religious affiliation in youth outcomes
Journal of Adolescence·2023Open Access
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking
Applied Developmental Science·2023· 2 cited
Returning thanks to God and others: prosocial consequences of transcendent indebtedness
The Journal of Positive Psychology·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Religious exemplars’ experience of indebtedness to God: employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct
The Journal of Positive Psychology·2023· 8 cited
Impacts of the MJO and Equatorial Waves on Tracked Mesoscale Convective Systems Over Southeast Asia
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints
Archive for the Psychology of Religion·2022· 8 cited
Religious development across adolescence and early adulthood.
American Psychological Association eBooks·2022· 11 cited
Declines in Religiousness Dimensions across Adolescence as Predictors of Religious Deidentification in Young Adulthood
Journal of Research on Adolescence·2022· 11 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Seth J. Schwartz(7), Byron L. Zamboanga(7), Su Yeong Kim(7), Gustavo Carlo(6), Joseph A. Olsen(6), Susan Krauss Whitbourne(5), Koen Luyckx(4), Larry F. Forthun(4), Alan S. Waterman(4), Alan Meca(4), Rachel Ritchie(4), Elissa J. Brown(4), Wim Beyers(3), Lawrence J. Walker(3), Jenae M. Nelson(3), Richard M. Lee(3), Amber R. Cazzell(3), Lindsay S. Ham(2), Marcela Raffaelli(2), Pamela Ebstyne King(2)