What Mediates the Relationship Between Religious Service Attendance and Aspects of Well-Being?

Steffen, Patrick R.; Masters, Kevin S.; Baldwin, Scott A.

doi:10.1007/s10943-016-0203-1

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“…As expected, statistically significant correlations were obtained in the predicted direction. Even though the correlation between depression and intrinsic religiosity was low, its magnitude is in agreement with the results that have been reported in the literature (Amadi et al 2016;Steffen et al 2016). Some authors point out that this relationship has the same magnitude as the relationship between sex (male vs. female) and depression, which is widely recognized in the literature.…”

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Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Intrinsic Religiosity and Depression Symptoms

Campos

Bredemeier²,

Trentini

2020

Trends in Psychol.

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The objective of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of meaning in life on the relationship between intrinsic religiosity and depression symptoms. A non-clinical sample of 279 participants answered an online survey. The mean age of participants was 33.19 years old and 72% of them were female. The participants answered the following self-report measures: Intrinsic Religiosity Inventory, Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. Three regression equations were used to test the research hypothesis. In the first regression model, intrinsic religiosity was a statistically significant predictor of meaning in life. In the second model, intrinsic religiosity was a statistically significant predictor of depression symptoms. However, in the third model, when meaning in life was incorporated into the regression model, along with intrinsic religiosity, as possible predictors of depression symptoms, only meaning in life proved to be a statistically significant predictor. The results corroborate the hypothesis that meaning in life mediates the relationship between intrinsic religiosity and depression symptoms. Therefore, intrinsic religiosity has a protective effect against depression symptoms; however, it occurs indirectly, via meaning in life.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Intrinsic Religiosity and Depression Symptoms

Campos

Bredemeier²,

Trentini

2020

Trends in Psychol.

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“…We found a main effect of social support only on depressive symptomatology at t1 with higher social support being associated with fewer symptoms, but it did not buffer the effect of life events either at initial assessment or longitudinally. Our results show that the benefit of religious activity is not just simply a product of the social support that it offers but something over and above this [47].…”

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The Role of Religion in Buffering the Impact of Stressful Life Events on Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Depressive Episodes or Adjustment Disorder

Lorenz

Doherty

Casey

2019

IJERPH

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Most studies into the role of religiousness in relation to depression severity have mainly found an inverse relationship between greater religiousness and lower levels of depressive symptoms. There is reason to assume that religiousness has a buffering effect on the relationship between stressful life events and depressive symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of religiousness in moderating the impact of stressors on depressive symptoms. n = 348 patients with either a depressive episode or adjustment disorder were assessed at referral to the liaison psychiatry services in three Dublin hospitals and n = 132 patients were followed up six months later. We assessed depressive symptoms, life events, social support, and religiosity, and used hierarchical and multiple linear regression for data analysis. The interaction of organised religious activity and the amount of life events was significant (β = −0.19, p = 0.001) in the cross-sectional prediction of depressive symptoms while non-organised religious activity (β = −0.23, p = 0.001) and intrinsic religiousness (β = −0.15, p = 0.033) interacted significantly with life events in the longitudinal analysis. This study demonstrated that various dimensions of religiousness buffered the impact of life events on outcome.

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“…Fenelon and Danielsen (2016) found that after disaffiliation, continued church attendance mediated any negative affect on well-being of disaffiliating. However, others have suggested that intrinsic religiosity and spiritual comfort seeking have effects that are independent from social support factors (Rasic, Robinson, Bolton, Bienvenu, & Sareen, 2011;Steffen, Masters, & Baldwin, 2017). An understanding of why these findings are contradictory is important.…”

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Religious Attendance, Religious Importance, and the Pathways to Depressive Symptoms in Men and Women Aged 50 and Over Living in Ireland

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Objectives: We aimed to explore the relationship between religiosity and depressive symptoms longitudinally. Method: We used four waves (2009–2016) of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to create growth curve models (GCM) of depressive symptoms and religious attendance/importance in a sample aged 50+ in Ireland and structural models to assess the longitudinal associations between religious attendance/importance and depressive symptoms. We tested whether this relationship was mediated by social connectedness. Results: GCM showed that higher religious attendance at baseline was associated with lower baseline depressive symptoms, while higher religious importance was associated with higher baseline depressive symptoms. Social connectedness partially mediated the baseline associations between religious attendance and lower depressive symptoms. There were no associations between religious factors and the development of depressive symptoms over time. Discussion: This study found that the relationship between religion and depressive symptoms is complex, and any protective effect was driven by religious attendance.

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What Mediates the Relationship Between Religious Service Attendance and Aspects of Well-Being?

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Intrinsic Religiosity and Depression Symptoms

Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Intrinsic Religiosity and Depression Symptoms

The Role of Religion in Buffering the Impact of Stressful Life Events on Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Depressive Episodes or Adjustment Disorder

Religious Attendance, Religious Importance, and the Pathways to Depressive Symptoms in Men and Women Aged 50 and Over Living in Ireland

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