Is It Really Religion? Comparing the Main and Stress-buffering Effects of Religious and Secular Civic Engagement on Psychological Distress
Is It Really Religion? Comparing the Main and Stress-buffering Effects of Religious and Secular Civic Engagement on Psychological Distress
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DOI：
10.1177/2156869313520558
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Xu, Xiaohe
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作者：
Acevedo, Gabriel A.;Ellison, Christopher G.;Xu, Xiaohe
使用来自德克萨斯州的成年居民的随机样本，我们研究了宗教参与和世俗公民参与如何缓冲感知的经济压力和邻里劣势对心理困扰的影响。我们的研究结果表明，（a）组织性宗教和世俗公民参与都缓冲了感知到的经济困难对受访者心理困扰的有害影响，（B）组织性和非组织性宗教参与缓冲了感知到的邻里劣势对受访者心理困扰的有害影响，（c）宗教参与比世俗公民参与具有更强大的缓冲作用，（d）非组织性宗教参与可以作为遭受心理困扰的受访者的应对机制。研究意义，研究的局限性和未来的研究方向进行了讨论。
Using a random sample of adult residents from the state of Texas, we examine how religious participation and secular civic engagement buffer the effects of perceived financial strain and neighborhood disadvantage on psychological distress. Our findings suggest that (a) both organizational religious and secular civic engagement buffer the deleterious effects of perceived financial hardship on respondents' psychological distress, (b) organizational as well as nonorganizational religious participation buffers the detrimental effects of perceived neighborhood disadvantage on respondents' psychological distress, (c) religious involvement has a more robust buffering effect than secular civic engagement, and (d) nonorganizational religious participation can serve as a coping mechanism for respondents who suffer from psychological distress. Research implications, study limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.