The empirical relationships between standardized measures of religiosity and personality/mental health

Kaldestad, Eystein

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00652.x

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“…Many studies show that religion shapes social and political attitudes in ways that cannot be reduced to social class, educational attainment, or other sociological factors (Davis and Robinson 1996; DiMaggio et al 1996; Green et al 1996; Leege and Kellstedt 1993; Manza and Brooks 1997; Wald 1987). Religion is also noteworthy because of its association with mental health and overall life satisfaction (Coke 1992; Glenn 1997; Ho et al 1995; Kaldestad 1996).…”

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Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Lau

Wolfinger

2011

Review of Religious Research

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This study explores the relationship between parental divorce and religiosity, including religious affiliation change and church attendance. Data from the 1991, 1998, and 2008 waves of the General Social Survey provide information both on current religiosity and religiosity in respondents' families of origin. The results suggest that living with a single divorced parent-but not a remarried or widowed parent-increases church attendance and the odds of a change in religious affiliation. Catholics and Protestants from divorced families are disproportionately likely to become apostates as adults, while people growing up in unaffiliated divorced families more often become affiliated as adults. However, parental divorce has fewer effects on the likelihood of moving from one denomination to another.

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Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Lau

Wolfinger

2011

Review of Religious Research

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“…Furthermore, religious attendance has also been associated with greater life satisfaction (Kaldestad, 1996), lower incidence of depression (Jensen et al , 1993), and beneficial personal relationships through increased social contacts (Bradley, 1995). The growing literature surrounding the impact of religiosity, spirituality, and religious commitment has evolved to include a broad spectrum of health indices: mental health; physical health; and social health and wellbeing.…”

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Antecedents of adult wellbeing: adolescent religiosity and health

Martin¹,

Kirkcaldy

Siefen³

2003

Journal of Managerial Psychology

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An extant of literature has demonstrated an apparent connection between religiosity and physical and psychological health, yet there is a scarcity of studies focussing on the impact of religion on health among children and adolescents. The current study examined associations between self‐report data on self‐image, physical and psychological health and death‐related cognitions in a large representative sample of German high‐school students. Almost 1,000 German adolescents (aged 14‐18 years) were administered a comprehensive series of questionnaires aimed at assessing anxiety/depression, trait addiction, smoking and drinking behaviour, physical ill‐health reports, and self‐perception of self‐image, parental acceptance and educational attainment. Several statements were incorporated to assess self‐injury and suicidal ideation. Just over half of the adolescents (56.9 per cent) did not attend church at all. Level of school influenced church attendance with secondary school adolescents attending least. Religious denomination also exerted a major role on church attendance with Muslims attending most regularly followed by Roman Catholics and then Protestants. Males were more likely to be non‐attendees. Regular church attendees tended to adopt more healthy life‐styles, they exercised more regularly, smoked less, were more likely to display higher school grades in linguistic – but not mathematical – competency. Conversely, there was some indication that negative affect, reflected by higher scores on the social problems scale was higher among church attenders. Religiosity was scarcely related to suicidal ideation among adolescents.

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“…On the basis that there was a reciprocal interaction between religiosity and health, a stepwise multiple correlation analysis was conducted rather than the more customary multiple regression analysis. By interaction, it is meant that previous studies suggested that health status has an effect on religiosity and religiosity has an effect on health status (1,2,4,5,6). Thus, a more general multiple correlation analysis was applied.…”

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“…There is systematic and quantitative evidence that religious commitment and religious practice are associated with better physical and mental health. Religious devotion has been linked to greater life satisfaction and improved psychological health (1,2,3), to lower incidence of depression (4,5), and to lower incidence of psychiatric disorders in general (6). Levin and Vanderpool reviewed scores of studies that found an association between the frequency of church attendance and physical health, although they urged that caution should be taken when interpreting such associations (7).…”

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Relationship of Mental Health to Religiosity

Glenn¹

2020

MJM

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the question of whether or not commitment to religious beliefs is associated with better mental health in typical community members. A household interview survey was conducted in a stratified, clustered sample of 3% of the adults that resided in a largely religious and rural mountain community. The Duke Health Profile was used to assess mental and physical health, and the nature and depth of religious devotion or commitment was based on the response to an interview item. Of the respondents in the sample, the mean age was 48.7 years, 55% were women, and the average annual family income was $14 300 (US). In a simple unadjusted analysis, religiosity was significantly correlated with physical health (the ill were more religious) and gender (women were more religious), but not with mental health, age, income, education level, or geographic mobility. Mental health was correlated with gender (women scored lower), physical health (the ill scored lower), and income (the wealthy scored higher); but the correlations with these variables were largely in the opposite direction than religiosity. When the correlation between religiosity and mental health were adjusted for the economic, health, and demographic characteristics with the multiple partial correlation method, a definite correlation was found (r = 0.11 to 0.14, p = 0.005 to 0.032). The conclusion is drawn that there is an association between religious commitment and good mental health, but that it can be masked by the inverse dependencies of religion and mental health on economic, health and demographic factors. These results suggest that further investigation should be undertaken in order to elucidate the clinical utility of incorporating religious beliefs and practice into patient therapy.

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The empirical relationships between standardized measures of religiosity and personality/mental health

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Antecedents of adult wellbeing: adolescent religiosity and health

Relationship of Mental Health to Religiosity

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