Specifying the Effects of Religious Participation and Educational Attainment on Mortality Risk for U.S. Adults

Moulton, Benjamin E.; Sherkat, Darren E.

doi:10.1080/02732173.2012.628552

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“…Our results did not support the deprivation compensation perspectiveincreases and stable levels of religious attendance were not shown to benefit the less educated more even though they tend to lack access to secular resources. We argue that this is an important theoretical contribution to past work with cross-sectional designs, which has suggested that high religiosity should hold greater health benefits for the less educated (Moulton and Sherkat 2012;Schieman 2008). Declines in attendance, however, were more damaging to the mental health of the less educated.…”

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“…Empirical evidence supports these propositions. Schieman (2008) found that religiosity is more strongly associated with lower depression among those with less education because of processes of resource substitution (see also Moulton and Sherkat 2012). Religious communities offer relatively accessible resources and may help individuals find solutions to their problems (Pargament, Koenig, and Perez 2000).…”

Section: The Education Contingent Effects Of Religious Transitions For Depressionmentioning

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Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression

Upenieks

Thomas

2021

J Health Soc Behav

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Using the life course perspective, we assess the “resources” and “risks” to mental health associated with transitions in religious attendance between early life and midlife and how this process may be influenced by education. Drawing on over 35 years of prospective panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, baseline models suggest that stable, frequent attendance accumulated between adolescence to midlife and increases to frequent attendance by adulthood are associated with the lowest depression relative to consistent nonattenders. Individuals who declined in their religious participation report higher depression. Education conditioned this association, whereby declines in religious participation negatively impacted the health of those without a college degree more strongly and increases benefitted the well-educated to a greater extent. We combine insights from the life course perspective and work on social stratification and religiosity to interpret our results and offer directives for future research.

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Section: The Education Contingent Effects Of Religious Transitions For Depressionmentioning

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Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression

Upenieks

Thomas

2021

J Health Soc Behav

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“…To date, numerous studies have focused on the relationship between mortality and participation in religious activities (14)(15)(16)(17). Although the evaluation of spirituality in relation to health has been challenged by the health and survival of cancer patients as well as the difficulty in providing a meaningful definition of advanced quantitative methods, the results obtained are in favor of spirituality and survival (18).…”

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The Impact of Spirituality on Health

2016

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Context: The impact of spirituality on recovery from disease and the promotion of health is a topic that has received the attention of many researchers and scholars around the world. Spirituality is considered one of the natural capacities of humans that has positive effects on individuals' health. The aim of this study was to review the impact of spirituality on people's health and to discuss the relationship between health and belief in spiritual powers. Evidence Acquisition: This study comprised a non-systematic narrative review of original and reliable scientific articles on spirituality published from 1972 to 2014. The research strategy was carried out using electronic databases such as Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar. Considering the goal of the research, 51 articles were selected and reviewed. Results: Most studies indicated the positive impact of spirituality on people's health. Recourse to spiritual powers leads to reductions in anxiety and concern among patients and their families, and allows people to more easily accept and cope with their health disorders. Conclusions: To date, most of the studies conducted on the topic have confirmed the positive impact of religious beliefs and other spiritual approaches on health and the course of recovery from acute and chronic diseases. Based on these findings, medical personnel should turn their attention to the advantages of spirituality in relation to patients' treatment and acquaint patients and their families with such spiritual benefits.

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“…mental health and mortality, have shown that the salutary effects of religion only accrue to individuals with low levels of educational attainment (cf. Moulton and Sherkat 2012;Schieman et al 2003;Schieman 2008). As Zuckerman et al (2021:865) put it "…more intelligent people already benefit from higher self-evaluation, a higher sense of control, and more efficient self-control.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Varying effects of religious factors by socioeconomic status have been found for other outcomes like mental health and mortality (cf. Moulton and Sherkat 2012;Schieman et al 2003;Schieman 2008). It is likely that these varied influences may also differ across racial groups.…”

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Race, Gender, and the Relationship Between Religious Factors and Verbal Ability: An Intersectional Approach

Sherkat¹

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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The negative relationship between religiosity and cognitive ability is well documented though most research on the connection between religion and cognitive factors has largely ignored how social positions like race and gender may inform the association. This paper explores how race and gender intersect with the association between religious factors and verbal ability. Using data from the General Social Surveys, I examine racial differences in the impact of religious identification, religious participation, and beliefs about the Bible on verbal ability. The analyses show that the association between religious factors and verbal ability varies significantly across racial groups, and points to some gender differences in the association between religious factors and verbal ability by race. The findings highlight the importance of an intersectional approach and suggest that psychological theorizing about the relationships between religion and cognitive ability is underdeveloped.

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Specifying the Effects of Religious Participation and Educational Attainment on Mortality Risk for U.S. Adults

Cited by 6 publications

References 85 publications

Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression

Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression

The Impact of Spirituality on Health

Race, Gender, and the Relationship Between Religious Factors and Verbal Ability: An Intersectional Approach

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