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| Aging, health, and the "electronic church" | | Author(s) | Judith C Hays, Lawrence R Landerman, Dan G Blazer |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 10, no 4, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 458-482 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Health [elderly] ; Worship ; Religion ; Broadcasting ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The inter-relationships among health status, organisational religiousness, and one dimension of non-organisational religiousness, i.e., use of electronic religious media, was examined in this study. Data was drawn from a multi-racial, population-based sample of 2,971 in the US Bible Belt. In adjusted models, 3-year declines in functional status were significantly associated with concurrent reduction in frequency of church attendance but not with any change in rates of religious media (TV and radio) use. Age-related declines in church attendance were substantively explained by declining functional ability. Changes in religious media use were independent of age and less sensitive to declining functional status or service attendance than to cultural heritage such as race, socioeconomic status, and rural upbringing. The findings did not support the hypothesis that older people with deteriorating health substitute increased engagement with religious media as their participation in organisational religious activities is reduced. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981109404 A |
| Classmark | C4: CC: OWL: TR: UK: 7T |
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