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Religion among disabled and nondisabled persons I
— cross-sectional patterns in health practices, social activities, and well-being | | Author(s) | Ellen L Idler, Stanislav V Kasl |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 6, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp S294-S305 |
| Keywords | Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Mobility ; Health [elderly] ; Social interaction ; Well being ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | What is the relationship between religious involvement and functional disability among older people? Is being disabled different for those who frequently attend religious services? Does religious involvement have an effect of subsequent change in disability? Deriving hypotheses from traditional theories in the sociology of religion, the authors explore these questions in two related articles. Both use data on 2812 subjects from the New Haven, Connecticut (CT) site of the Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly. In this first article, cross-sectional correlates of religious involvement and disability are examined at the baseline of the study, including multiple indicators of health practices, social activities, and subjective well-being. They test for interactions between religious attendance and disability. Findings are: that religious involvement in 1982 is tied to a broad array of behavioural and psychosocial resources; that these resources are associated primarily with attendance at services, and not with subjective feelings of religiousness; and that some of these associations are especially pronounced among disabled respondents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980121416 A |
| Classmark | TR: EX: BN: C4: CC: TMA: D:F:5HH: 49: 7T |
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