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| A cluster analysis typology of religiousness/spirituality among older adults | | Author(s) | David L Klemmack, Lucinda Lee Roff, Michael W Parker |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 29, no 2, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 163-183 |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Living in the community ; Cluster analysis ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Cluster analysis was used to identify sets of individuals similar to one another across multiple measures of religiousness. It was then ascertained whether these groups differed by sociodemographic characteristics, health risk behaviours, physical health and functional status, and mental health. The authors identified six clusters using data from 1000 community-living older people in a k-means cluster analysis of a modified version of the Duke University Religion Index. Participants in the strongly religious, moderately religious and miminally religious clusters had the highest scores in the health, functional status and mental health variables. The privately practising moderate attender and the privately practising moderate non-attender groups were similar to each other and generally had poorer health, functional status and mental health. The typology illustrates the importance of simultaneously considering multiple measures of religiousness and the complexity of the relationships among religiousness, sociodemographic characteristics, health risk behaviours, and health and well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070510216 A |
| Classmark | EX: TR: K4: 3YB: 7T |
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