Religious involvement as a social determinant of sleep: an initial review and conceptual model

Sleep Quality and the Stress‐Buffering Role of Religious Involvement: A Mediated Moderation Analysis

“…Another important contribution of this study is our examination of mediators via which religion might buffer the effects of stressful events on sleep quality. A recent review of the religion‐sleep connection (Hill et al ) identified mental health as an important potential mediator. Depression has been shown to increase the risk of subsequent insomnia and other forms of sleep disruption (Cutler ; Nutt, Wilson, and Paterson ), such that sleep problems are often regarded as symptoms of depression (Lin and Stevens ).…”

“…In their recent review of the religion‐sleep connection, Hill, DeAngelis, and Ellison () lament the fact that few studies have ever explored the pathways (mediators) via which religious factors may shape sleep outcomes. Indeed, with only a few exceptions (Ellison et al.…”

“…), studies in this nascent area of research have focused primarily on direct associations between religion and sleep. Hill, DeAngelis, and Ellison (:329) also argue that “once we begin to consider subgroup variations in the effects of religious involvement, empirical explanations for these patterns should also be formally tested (i.e., mediated moderation).”…”

Scriptural Coping: An Empirical Test of Hermeneutic Theory

“…A substantial body of literature attests to religion's prominent influence on personal well‐being, especially as a resource for coping with psychosocial stress (for reviews, see Bartkowski, Acevedo, and van Loggerenberg ; Ellison and Henderson ; Pargament ). Over the past several decades, numerous studies have documented salutary associations between dimensions of religious involvement and various indicators of health and well‐being, including subjective well‐being (Ellison ; Lim and Putnam ), sleep quality (Hill, DeAngelis, and Ellison ), biological functioning (Hill et al. ), cognitive functioning (Hill et al.…”

“…A substantial body of literature attests to religion's prominent influence on personal wellbeing, especially as a resource for coping with psychosocial stress (for reviews, see Bartkowski, Acevedo, and van Loggerenberg 2017;Ellison and Henderson 2011;Pargament 1997). Over the past several decades, numerous studies have documented salutary associations between dimensions of religious involvement and various indicators of health and well-being, including subjective well-being (Ellison 1991;Lim and Putnam 2010), sleep quality (Hill, DeAngelis, and Ellison 2018), biological functioning (Hill et al 2014), cognitive functioning (Hill et al 2006), cellular aging (Hill et al 2016), and longevity (Hummer et al, 1999(Hummer et al, , 2004. A host of empirical studies has also shown that religious involvement can mitigate the adverse mental health effects of traumatic life events Ellison 1991), noxious neighborhood environments (Acevedo, Ellison, and Xu 2014;Krause 1998), financial hardship (Acevedo, Ellison, and Xu 2014;Krause 2003), discrimination experiences (Ellison, DeAngelis, and Güven 2017;Ellison, Musick, and Henderson 2008), combat exposure (White et al 2018), and failure to achieve salient life goals (DeAngelis 2018).…”