Abide with me: religious group identification among older adults promotes health and well-being by maintaining multiple group memberships
Abide with me: religious group identification among older adults promotes health and well-being by maintaining multiple group memberships
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跟随我：老年人的宗教团体认同通过维持多种团体成员身份来促进健康和福祉
作者：
Renate Ysseldyk;S. Haslam;C. Haslam
目的：衰老与健康和幸福感的恶化有关，但以前的研究表明，这可以通过保持群体成员身份和与之相关的有价值的社会身份来减弱。在这方面，宗教认同可能特别有利于帮助个人抵御衰老的挑战，部分原因是宗教认同是其他群体成员更广泛的社交网络的基础。本文旨在研究宗教（身份和群体成员）和老年人的福祉之间的关系。具有和维持多个组成员资格在调解这些关系的贡献进行了评估，并与其他组成员资格（社会和运动）相关联的模式进行了比较。方法：研究1（N = 42）调查了居住在加拿大养老院的老年人，他们完成了宗教身份，其他团体成员和抑郁症的测量。研究2（N = 7021）纵向评估老年人在英国类似的措施，但增加了感知的身体健康。结果如下：在研究1中，宗教认同与较少的抑郁症状相关，并且多个群体的成员关系介导了这种关系。然而，社交或运动团体与心理健康之间没有明显的关系。研究2复制了这些模式，但另外，随着时间的推移，保持多个群体成员身份部分介导了宗教群体成员身份和身体健康之间的关系。结论：这些研究结果表明，宗教社交网络是老年人社会资本的一个特别宝贵的来源，直接支持福祉，并促进更多的群体成员（包括那些非宗教）。
Objectives: Aging is associated with deterioration in health and well-being, but previous research suggests that this can be attenuated by maintaining group memberships and the valued social identities associated with them. In this regard, religious identification may be especially beneficial in helping individuals withstand the challenges of aging, partly because religious identity serves as a basis for a wider social network of other group memberships. This paper aims to examine relationships between religion (identification and group membership) and well-being among older adults. The contribution of having and maintaining multiple group memberships in mediating these relationships is assessed, and also compared to patterns associated with other group memberships (social and exercise). Method: Study 1 (N = 42) surveyed older adults living in residential care homes in Canada, who completed measures of religious identity, other group memberships, and depression. Study 2 (N = 7021) longitudinally assessed older adults in the UK on similar measures, but with the addition of perceived physical health. Results: In Study 1, religious identification was associated with fewer depressive symptoms, and membership in multiple groups mediated that relationship. However, no relationships between social or exercise groups and mental health were evident. Study 2 replicated these patterns, but additionally, maintaining multiple group memberships over time partially mediated the relationship between religious group membership and physical health. Conclusion: Together these findings suggest that religious social networks are an especially valuable source of social capital among older adults, supporting well-being directly and by promoting additional group memberships (including those that are non-religious).
DOI：
10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00379.x
发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
7.2
作者：
Haslam, S. Alexander;Jetten, Jolanda;Haslam, Catherine
通讯作者：
Haslam, Catherine