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Religion as moderator of the sense of control - health connection
— gender differences | | Author(s) | Paul Wink, Michele Dillon, Adrienne Prettyman |
| Journal title | Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, vol 19, no 4, 2007 |
| Publisher | Binghamton, NY, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 21-42 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Religion ; Competence ; Well being ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Sense of personal control is a key marker of successful ageing, yet little is known about its relation to religiousness and personal adversity in older people. This study investigated the relation between two different religious orientations -a church-centred religiousness, and a non-church based spiritual seeking - with sense of control, physical health, and gender in late adulthood. Participants were a community sample of men and women (n=156) in their late sixties and mid-seventies who were born in the San Francisco Bay Area. Three-way ANOVA were used to test in separate analyses the effects of religiousness and spiritual seeking on sense of control in men and women who were either in good or poor physical health. Both religiousness and spiritual seeking buffered women, but not men, against loss of sense of control due to poor physical health. The buffering effect of religiousness and spiritual seeking was associated with different psychological characteristics: high life satisfaction for religiousness; and engagement in life review for spiritual seeking. For men, the absence of a buffering effect of either religiousness or spiritual seeking was associated with disengagement from involvement in daily activities. These findings highlight the importance of using multidimensional models of religion in studying its effects on psychosocial functioning in late adulthood, and the possibility that men and women who are high in religiousness and spiritual seeking regulate their sense of control using different adaptive strategies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071127209 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: TR: DPB: D:F:5HH: CC: 49: 7T |
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