Sociologists of religion have stated that religious behaviour may have a concrete impact on a person's life.
These consequences of religiosity are thought to include emotional and physical health, spiritual well-being, personal, marital, and family happiness.
[1] Although a simple correlation between religiosity and well-being is repeatedly reported in the research literature, recent multivariate research (which controls for other predictors of well-being) suggests religiosity's contribution to happiness is minuscule and sometimes negative.
Consequences of religiosity may include emotional and physical health, spiritual well-being, personal, marital, and family happiness.
This, however, does not preclude the possibility of these factors working in the reverse as health, happiness and the like may interact with and have an influence on one's level of religiosity.