Religion

I observed that when I looked up “how-to” books on insecurity and fear, I saw that there were a numerous amount of sources that were related to religion (mostly Christianity). So, I decided to see if there was a connection between insecurity and fear. Unfortunately, after searching "fear" with "religion" and "insecurity" and "religion," I couldn't find any perfectly related articles. However, I did come upon an article that studies the relationship between exposure to traumatic events and judiasm in Israeli teenage students. 

Korn, L., & Zukerman, G. (2011). Affective and Behavioral Changes Following Exposure to Traumatic Events: the Moderating Effect of Religiosity on Avoidance Behavior Among Students Studying Under a High Level of Terror Event Exposure. Journal Of Religion & Health, 50(4), 911-921. doi:10.1007/s10943-011-9502-8

• The study showed that high levels of exposure terror were linked to high levels of insecurity, emotional distress, and avoidance behavior.
• After the survey that they conducted, those that were religiously involved had lower levels of avoidance behavior but had no effect on levels of insecurity and emotional distresss.

This study shows that religion may not have an effect on insecurity at all. However, I wanted to find more articles that contradicted what this study showed.

I actually happened to fall upon this article that compared religion to humility. I never really thought about it before but the more humor you have, the more you can laugh about yourself in hopes to lower insecurities.

Saroglou, V. (2004). Being religious implies being different in humour: evidence from self- and peer-ratings. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 7(3), 255-267. doi:10.1080/13674670310001606469

•  Here, most of the abstract, " In study 1 (self-reports), men's spirituality and religiosity were found to be negatively related respectively to the use of hostile and social humour. In study 2 (self- and/or spouse-ratings), there was weak but meaningful evidence that both religious men and women did not tend to use hostile and earthy humour nor, to some extent, social humour. Religious men tended to use self-defeating humour, a finding partially due to their high insecurity in attachment. Moreover, religiosity and/or spirituality was found to be related to between-spouse similarity in many humour styles. The discussion points out the willingness of religious people to share similar values and ways of enjoyment with their partners as well as the fact that the 'discomfort' of religion with humour seems to encompass a large number of humour styles."
• The results express that religion and humor have a moderate relationship with one another. In relevance to my research, insecurity does not have as much as a connection to religion. 
• I noticed that this article does have words such as, "to some extent," "partially," and "seems to." If I want to rely on an article that could help with my research, I want cold, hard facts and not just probable results.

Overall, between the two articles I found, insecurity/fear do not have a relationship with one another.