Religiosity and Mortality Risk in Later Life

宗教信仰与晚年的死亡风险

• 批准号: 8913405
• 负责人: Merril D. Silverstein
• 金额: $ 22.52万
• 依托单位: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8913405
• 关键词: Accounting; Aging; Alcohol consumption; Archives; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Belief System; Cause of Death; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Child; Communities; Control Locus; Data; Data Set; Dimensions; Elderly; Equipment and supply inventories; Family; Frequencies; Generations; Half-Life; Health; Health behavior; Heterogeneity; Individual; Investigation; Knowledge; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Michigan; Modeling; Non-linear Models; Outcome; Parents; Participant; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Proxy; Psychological Factors; Records; Religion; Religion and Spirituality; Religious Belief; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Resources; Respondent; Risk; Role; Services; Siblings; Spouses; Stress; Structure; Surveys; Survival Analysis; Techniques; Time; Tobacco use; Universities; Vital Status; cohort; computerized; indexing; middle age; mortality; psychologic; public health relevance; self esteem; social; social capital; social integration

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this research is to extend the Longitudinal Study of Generations and Mental Health (LSOG) by linking it to mortality data from the National Death Index (NDI). The addition of valid dates and underlying causes of death for decedents will provide the opportunity to examine how religiosity influences risk of mortality in later life, as well as open up possibilities for the general research community to investigate the influence of other psycho-social factors on mortality when these new data are archived. The Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG) is a study of 3,168 individuals representing 328 three-generation families that began in 1971 and has continued to 2006. The focus of the proposed project will be on 1,217 respondents in the two oldest generations who in 1971 averaged 67 and 43 years, respectively. Multidimensional measures of religiosity have been applied over the eight waves of measurement, including frequency of attendance at religious services, values concerning the role of religion in public life, beliefs in conservative religious ideology, identification as a religious person, salience of religion in one's life, and religious denomination. Survival analysis will be used to assess how time-varying religiosity variables influence the risk of mortality over 40 years and to examine the following mediators through which this relationship unfolds: social integration (structural, functional, and normative), health behaviors (tobacco and alcohol consumption) and psychological well-being (depression, self-esteem, and locus of control). The potential of hyper-religiosity to negatively influence survival will also be examined in non-linear models. The multi-actor/full family design of the study provides added value by allowing various within- family assessments of mortality risk that hold constant common but unobserved background characteristics. This investigation will provide knowledge about the mechanisms linking behavioral and subjective aspects of religiosity to health outcomes in two older cohorts.

 描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是通过将世代与心理健康纵向研究 (LSOG) 与国家死亡指数 (NDI) 的死亡率数据联系起来，扩展该研究。死者死亡的有效日期和根本原因的添加将为研究宗教信仰如何影响晚年的死亡风险提供机会，并为一般研究界在这些新数据存档时调查其他心理社会因素对死亡率的影响提供可能性。世代纵向研究 (LSOG) 是一项针对代表 328 个三代家庭的 3,168 人的研究，始于 1971 年，一直持续到 2006 年。拟议项目的重点将放在最古老的两代人的 1,217 名受访者上，他们在 1971 年的平均年龄分别为 67 岁和 43 岁。八波测量中采用了多维度的宗教信仰测量，包括参加宗教仪式的频率、宗教在公共生活中的作用的价值观、对保守宗教意识形态的信仰、宗教人士的认同、宗教在个人生活中的显着性以及宗教派别。生存分析将用于评估随时间变化的宗教信仰变量如何影响 40 年来的死亡风险，并检查这种关系展开的以下中介因素：社会融合（结构性、功能性和规范性）、健康 行为（吸烟和饮酒）和心理健康（抑郁、自尊和控制源）。超宗教信仰对生存产生负面影响的可能性也将在非线性模型中得到检验。该研究的多参与者/全家庭设计通过允许对死亡风险进行各种家庭内部评估来提供附加值，这些评估具有恒定的共同但未观察到的背景特征。这项调查将提供有关将宗教信仰的行为和主观方面与两个老年群体的健康结果联系起来的机制的知识。