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Religion as moderator of the depression-health connection
— findings from a longitudinal study | | Author(s) | Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, Britta Larsen |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 27, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 197-220 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Depression ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A representative community sample of men and women born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1920s was used to investigate the long-term relations between religiousness, spirituality, depression and physical health. In late adulthood (age late 60s to mid 70s), religiousness buffered against depression associated with poor physical health, and with highest levels of depression observed in the low religiousness and poor physical health group. The buffering effect of religiousness was present after controlling for social support and was predicted longitudinally using religiousness scored in middle adulthood (40s) - at time interval of approximately 30 years. Spirituality, operationalised in terms of adherence to non-institutionalised religious beliefs and practices did not have the same buffering effect as religiousness. The findings are discussed with regard to the mechanism underlying the salutary effect of religion on aggression resulting from personal adversity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050504216 A |
| Classmark | TR: EX: ENR: CC: 49: 3J: 7T |
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