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Religious activity and depression among community-dwelling elderly persons with cancer
— the moderating effect of race | | Author(s) | Marc A Musick, Harold G Koenig, Judith C Hays |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp S218-S227 |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Living in the community ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Depression ; Ethnic groups ; White people ; Black people ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article aims to further our knowledge of the links between religion and mental health by examining the effect of religious activity on depressive symptomatology among community-dwelling older people with cancer. Also tested is whether these effects differ between blacks and whites. Two waves of data collected from a community-dwelling sample of older people living in North Carolina (NC) are used. Depressive symptomatology is measured using four sub-scales from the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression) 20 scale: somatic-retarded activity, depressed affect, positive affect, and interpersonal relations. Measures of religious activity include service attendance, religious devotion, and watching or listening to religious programmes. Findings indicate that among blacks with cancer, religious activity is related to lower levels of depressive symptomatology; no such relationship is found for respondents with other illnesses or no illness. Further, the effects of religious activity are stronger among blacks than whites. The analyses lend support - though not as strong as anticipated - to the hypothesis that religious activity is a strong predictor of depression in older people with cancer. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980903244 A |
| Classmark | CK: K4: EX: ENR: TK: TKA: TKE: 7T |
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