Religious Attendance and Subjective Health
Religious Attendance and Subjective Health
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宗教出席率和主观健康
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发表时间：
1986
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通讯作者：
K. Markides
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作者：
Jeffrey S. Levin;K. Markides
流行病学家经常将宗教参与与各种健康结果联系起来，并声称宗教代表了健康方面的保护因素。然而，这些分析通常是零阶的（即，不受控制），因此未能解决潜在解释变量的影响可能会降低这种关联的可能性。使用三代墨西哥裔美国天主教徒的样本，作者回归到宗教出席的主观健康，或者控制四个这样的变量：社会支持，身体能力，社会阶层和主观宗教虔诚度。在老年和年轻女性中，通过消除身体能力的影响，可以解释显著的零阶关联。这些研究结果提供了实证支持，在社会老年学的理论工作，这表明，宗教出席可能代表功能健康的代理，特别是在老年人。
Epidemiologists often correlate religious attendance with a variety of health outcomes and claim that religion represents a protective factor with respect to health. However, these analyses are typically zero-order (i.e., uncontrolled) and thus fail to address the possibility that partialling out the effects of potential explanatory variables might reduce such associations to insignificance. Using a three-generations sample of Mexican American Catholics, the authors regress subjective health onto religious attendance, alternatively controlling for four such variables: social support, physical capacity, social class, and subjective religiosity. Among both older and younger women, significant zero-order associations are explained away by removing the effects of physical capacity. These findings lend empirical support to theoretical work in social gerontology which suggests that religious attendance may represent a proxy for functional health, especially in older people.
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5
作者：
D. Zuckerman;S. Kasl;A. Ostfeld
通讯作者：
D. Zuckerman;S. Kasl;A. Ostfeld