Researchers looked at the relationship between the Oxford happiness questionnaire and Rokeach dogmatism scale.
They found religious dogmatism is correlated with lower happiness. Dogmatism makes people inflexible, frustrated, and often violent.
While spiritual tendencies increase happiness, religious dogmatism hinders it.
Dogma is a Greek word that means individual believe or idea. Dogmatism — a narrow arrangement of beliefs / disbeliefs used as a framework for engaging with others — has a negative effect on wellbeing.
Dogmatic individuals have an inflexible cognitive system that emerges as a stable personality trait and decreases their adjustment to the environment (creative or divergent thinking in a challenging or novel situation). Emotional wellbeing and cognitive wellbeing are affected by individual adjustment. Therefore, in dogmatic individuals with low adjustment, the decrease of emotional wellbeing and cognitive wellbeing is inevitable. This process will result in decreased happiness and increased aggression. Violence is often the predictive tendency when they encounter challenging events.
Reference — Malmir, M., Khanahmadi, M., & Farhud, D. (2017). Dogmatism and Happiness. Iranian journal of public health, 46(3), 326–332.
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