Religion, social support, and health among the Japanese elderly
Religion, social support, and health among the Japanese elderly
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DOI：
10.2307/2676333
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发表时间：
1999-12-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Sugisawa, H
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作者：
Krause, N;Ingersoll-Dayton, B;Sugisawa, H
我们在本文中解决三个问题：（1）宗教是否与自我评价的健康有关？（2）这些有益健康的影响是否因为宗教鼓励人们为重要的人提供帮助而产生？（3）宗教与帮助他人之间的关系在老年男性中比老年女性更明显？我们分析了宗教，支持给予，和健康之间的关系，提供了一个全国性的概率样本的2153名老年人在日本谁是面对面采访于1996年的数据。更多地参与宗教活动与更经常地为他人提供帮助有关，但这些影响只出现在老年男性身上。无论性别如何，向他人提供帮助的老年人往往比不太参与帮助他人的老年人更喜欢自己的健康。这些结果证实了宗教与健康有关，而帮助他人至少可以解释这种关系的部分原因。
We address three issues in this paper: (1) Is religion related to self-rated health, (2) do these salubrious effects arise because religion encourages people to provide help to significant others, and (3) is the relationship between religion and helping others more evident among older men than elderly women? We analyze the relationships among religion, support giving, and health with data provided by a national probability sample of 2, 153 older people in Japan who were interviewed face-to-face in 1996. Greater involvement in religion is associated with providing help to others more often, but these effects emerge for older men only. Regardless of gender, elders who provide assistance to others more often rate their health more favorably than older adults who are less involved in helping others. These results confirm that religion is related to health, and that helping others may explain at least part of the reason for this relationship.