Religiosity and self-destructive crises in the institutionalized elderly.
Religiosity and self-destructive crises in the institutionalized elderly.
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收容老年人的宗教信仰和自我毁灭危机。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1943-278x.1977.tb00419.x
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发表时间：
1977
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Franklyn L. Nelson
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作者：
Franklyn L. Nelson
宗教信仰与自毁行为的关系在很大程度上是从宗教信仰或教会成员对不同地域人群自杀率的影响来考虑的。这项研究偏离了这一方法，转而关注老年慢性病住院患者中宗教承诺强度与使用间接生命威胁行为(ILTB)的关系。制定了衡量ILTB发生情况的评定量表，并对退伍军人管理局医院的58名患者进行了抽样调查。本样本的研究结果表明，宗教承诺的强度可能比正式的教会成员身份更有意义地衡量宗教信仰，宗教承诺的强度往往与患者所观察到的ILTB的程度成反比，以及某些宗教附属机构更广泛地使用ILTB的趋势可能起到了作用。
The relationship of religiosity to self-destructive behavior has largely been considered in terms of the impact of religious affiliation, or church membership, on rates of suicide for various geographical populations. This study departs from that approach and focuses instead on the relationship of intensity of religious commitment to the use of indirect life-threatening behavior (ILTB) among elderly, chronically ill hospital patients. A rating scale to measure the occurrence of ILTB was developed and administered to a sample of 58 patients in a Veterans Administration hospital. Findings for this sample indicate that intensity of religious commitment is a potentially more meaningful measure of religiosity than is formal church membership, that intensity of religious commitment tends to vary inversely with the extent of ILTB observed for the patient, and that "stigma avoidance" may play a role in the tendency for certain religious affiliates to make more extensive use of ILTB.