Religiosity and Mortality Risk in Later Life

 描述(申请人提供)：这项研究的目的是通过将世代与精神健康纵向研究(LSOG)与国家死亡指数(NDI)中的死亡数据联系起来来扩展该研究。增加死者的有效日期和潜在死亡原因将提供机会来研究宗教信仰如何影响晚年的死亡风险，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打开了可能性。世代纵向研究(LSOG)从1971年开始，一直持续到2006年，对代表328个三代家庭的3168个人进行了研究。拟议项目的重点将是最年长的两代人中的1217名受访者，1971年他们的平均年龄分别为67岁和43岁。对宗教信仰的多维测量应用于八种测量方法，包括参加宗教仪式的频率、关于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、对宗教人士的认同、宗教在一个人生活中的突出程度以及宗教派别。生存分析将被用来评估时变的宗教信仰变量如何影响40年来的死亡风险，并检查这种关系通过以下中介展开：社会融合(结构、功能和规范)、健康 行为(烟酒消费)和心理健康(抑郁、自尊和控制点)。过度虔诚对存活率产生负面影响的可能性也将在非线性模型中进行检验。这项研究的多参与者/全家庭设计通过允许对死亡风险的各种家庭内评估提供附加值，这些评估具有恒定的共同但未观察到的背景特征。这项调查将提供关于宗教信仰的行为和主观方面与两个年龄较大的队列的健康结果之间联系的机制的知识。

 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.