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| Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults | | Author(s) | M Parker, L Lee Roff, D L Klemmack |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 7, no 5, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp 390-397 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Depression ; Mental health [elderly] ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Three measures of religiosity on depression and general mental health are considered in home interviews conducted with a stratified random sample of 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging. Those who were high on all three dimensions of religiosity reported having fewer symptoms of depression and better mental health, than did those who were low on all three dimensions. Those who scored high on organised religiosity (OR) reported lower levels of depression. Neither intrinsic religiosity (IR) nor non-organised religiosity (NOR) had salutary effects on the measure of depression, nor on the general measure of mental health. The interpretation of the relationships of religiosity with the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the general mental health (Mental Component Scale of the SF-12, MCS) measures was complicated by the presence of three way interactions. The presence of interactive effects between the different dimensions of religiosity and mental health affirms the importance of remaining sensitive to the multidimensional nature of religiousness and its relationships with measures of mental health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031007237 A |
| Classmark | TR: EX: ENR: D: K4: 49: 7T |
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