Looking Inside the Black Box of "Attendance at Services": New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
Looking Inside the Black Box of "Attendance at Services": New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
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DOI：
10.1080/10508610802471096
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Contrada, Richard J.
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作者：
Idler, Ellen L.;Boulifard, David A.;Contrada, Richard J.
宗教与健康的研究激发了人们对测量宗教信仰的新兴趣。测量工作集中在宗教的主观方面，如精神和信仰，而很少注意聚集方面，除了测量参加服务的单一项目。我们评估了一些新的措施，宗教经验发生在会众崇拜服务。受访者（N = 576）是在心脏手术前接受采访的宗教信仰多样化的社区居民成年人。探索性因素分析的新项目的标准项目池产生了一个易于解释的解决方案，涉及七个相关的，但不同的因素和一个指标变量，具有较高的内部一致性。我们在这些措施中描述了宗教信仰和人口统计学差异。参加宗教服务提供多方面的身体，情感，社会和精神体验，可以通过多种途径促进身体健康。
Research in religion and health has spurred new interest in measuring religiousness. Measurement efforts have focused on subjective facets of religiousness such as spirituality and beliefs, and less attention has been paid to congregate aspects, beyond the single item measuring attendance at services. We evaluate some new measures for religious experiences occurring during congregational worship services. Respondents (N = 576) were religiously diverse community-dwelling adults interviewed prior to cardiac surgery. Exploratory factor analysis of the new items with a pool of standard items yielded a readily interpretable solution, involving seven correlated but distinct factors and one index variable, with high levels of internal consistency. We describe religious affiliation and demographic differences in these measures. Attendance at religious services provides multifaceted physical, emotional, social, and spiritual experiences that may promote physical health through multiple pathways.