| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| The relation of religious preference and practice to depressive symptoms among 1,855 older adults | | Author(s) | Gary J Kennedy, Howard R Kelman, Cynthia Thomas |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 51B, no 6, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp P301-P308 |
| Keywords | Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Church services ; Roman Catholicism ; Judaism ; Depression ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article considers attendance at religious services and religious affiliation as factors in the epidemiology of late life mental illness. The authors examined differences in the prevalence and course of depressive symptoms and associated characteristics among community residents expressing a Jewish, Catholic, or other religious preference. At baseline, Jewish religious preference was associated with a twofold elevation in the prevalence of depressive symptoms, compared to Catholics. Lack of attendance at religious services was associated with greater prevalence of depression among all groups, particularly Catholics. For Jews, the relationship between non-attendance and depression could not be accounted for by measures of age, gender, health, disability, or social support. In general, not attending services was associated with both the emergence and persistence of depression, but did not remain significant, once the effects of other characteristics were controlled. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125222 A |
| Classmark | TR: EX: OWM: TSA: TUW: ENR: 48: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|