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| Religiosity, adherence to traditional culture, and psychological well-being among African American elders | | Author(s) | Yuri Jang, Amy R Borenstein, David A Chiriboga |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 25, no 5, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 343-355 |
| Source | http://jag.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Black people ; Religion ; Faith ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Well being ; Depression ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | To expand our knowledge on the role of religiosity in African American culture, this study assessed the associations between religiosity, adherence to traditional African American culture, and psychological well-being. Regression models of psychological well-being, indexed with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction, were tested using a representative sample of 255 community-dwelling African American older people in the Hillsborough Elder African American Life Study (HEALS) in Florida. The direct effect of religiosity was found to be significant for both depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. A significant interaction between religiosity and adherence to African American culture was observed in the prediction of life satisfaction. Further analysis indicated the positive effect of religiosity on life satisfaction was stronger in those of a traditional persuasion. The results demonstrate that the benefits of religiosity do not exist uniformly across all African Americans, but vary by the level of traditional culture. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070115223 A |
| Classmark | TKE: TR: EX5: F: D:F:5HH: ENR: 49: 7T |
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