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| Effects of faith and secular factors on locus of control in middle-aged and older cardiac patients | | Author(s) | Amy L Ai, Christopher Peterson, Willard Rodgers |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 5, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp 470-481 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Faith ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Attitude ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; In-patients ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The complex relationships between faith factors and health locus of control were explored. Both control and faith are multi-dimensional phenomena and affect an individual's health and well-being. Yet how faith and secular factors (e.g. demographic variables) are jointly related to patients' personal control in the face of medical crises remains empirically under-examined. The authors presumed a multivariate association between faith and secular factors. They used data from two sequential interviews and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Adult Cardiac Database to examine the association between these different faith factors and different health loci of control for 224 middle-aged and older patients one day prior to major cardiac surgery. Findings from multiple regression analyses were that greater internal control was positively related to using private prayer for coping (an event-specific "vicarious" control strategy), but negatively related to subjective religiosity (a general faith measure), after controlling for effects of other secular factors, especially cardiac-significant ones. Several factors in the medical history affected different loci of control. Older age and minority status were associated with greater external control. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202233 A |
| Classmark | EX5: EX: DP: CQ: SE: BB: LF7: 3F: 7T |
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