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| Stressors in highly valued roles, religious coping, and mortality | | Author(s) | Neal Krause |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 2, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 242-255 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Death ; Social roles ; Pastoral care ; Religion ; Adjustment ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study examines the relationships among stress, religious coping, and mortality. It is hypothesised that religious coping will offset the effects of stressors arising in highly valued roles on mortality, but similar stress-buffering effects will not emerge with events in less important roles. It is further predicted that the beneficial properties of religious coping will be especially evident among older people with less education. Data from a nationwide US survey of 819 older adults (median age 73.8 years; 41% male) indicate that religious coping offsets the effects of stressors in highly valued roles on mortality, but only among older adults with less educational attainment (p < .05). In contrast, events in roles that are not valued highly do not have significant additive effects on mortality or significant interaction effects with religious coping. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980812004 A |
| Classmark | QNH: CW: TM5: OW: TR: DR: 3F: 7T |
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