Biological and Psychosocial Manifestations of Religion

宗教的生物学和心理社会表现

• 批准号: 6958344
• 负责人: GARY E. FRASER
• 金额: $ 32.2万
• 依托单位: LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6958344
• 关键词: African American; adult human (21+); aging; behavioral /social science research tag; biomarker; blood tests; cardiovascular disorder risk; caucasian American; clinical research; coping; health; health behavior; human mortality; human subject; immune system; inflammation; longitudinal human study; psychological models; psychometrics; quality of life; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; religion; religious group; stress

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although the modern sociological study of religion is almost a hundred years old, only recently have behavioral scientists probed religious/spiritual life for its possible health outcomes. The results demonstrate a usually positive correlation between religious involvement and health and mortality. To date, much of the research in this emerging field has used broad measures (e.g. religious attendance), surveyed small, regional populations, and utilized a paucity of minority peoples. In this longitudinal study we plan: 1. To examine particular manifestations of religious experience (e.g. dimensions of prayer and contrasting concepts of God), and their associations with quality of life and cause specific mortality in a Protestant group possessing generally good health outcomes, and increasingly characterized by diversity; 2. To investigate whether these same manifestations of religious experience have different associations with quality of life and cause-specific mortality in two ethnic groups (African- and [Euro- Americans); 3. To examine the possible relationships of these manifestations of religious experience to biochemical and physiological indicators of stress, immune system function, and aging. This prospective study is planned as a complement to LLU's Adventist Health Study-2, currently funded by NCI and enrolling 125,000 participants from across the United States. Whereas AHS-2 focuses on diet and its effect on cancer incidence, our research involving 10,000 of AHS-2 participants will explore how religious beliefs and practices may affect not only mortality but also quality of life. Further, 500 members of the proposed study, ages 50-95+, will live in the Loma Linda vicinity, and participate in the study's clinical arm that will ascertain possible biological and physiological mediators of religious effect. This study should further current understanding of how various manifestations of religion positively and negatively affect physical and mental health.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管现代的宗教社会学研究已有近一百年历史，但直到最近才有行为科学家为其可能的健康成果探讨了宗教/精神生活。结果表明，宗教参与与健康和死亡率之间通常存在正相关。迄今为止，这个新兴领域的许多研究都采用了广泛的措施（例如宗教出勤率），调查了小额的地区人口，并利用了少数人的匮乏。 在这项纵向研究中，我们计划：1。检查宗教经验的特殊表现（例如，祈祷和对比的上帝概念的维度），以及它们与生活质量的关联，并在具有良好健康状况的新教群体中引起特定的死亡率，并越来越多地以多样性为特征； 2。研究这些相同的宗教经验表现是否与两个族裔（非洲和[欧洲人）的生活质量和特定原因死亡的质量和特定原因的死亡率有所不同； 3。要研究这些宗教经验的这些表现与压力，免疫系统功能和衰老的生化和生理指标的可能关系。 这项前瞻性研究计划是对LLU的Adventist Health研究2的补充，该研究由NCI资助，并招募了来自美国各地的125,000名参与者。 AHS-2专注于饮食及其对癌症发病率的影响，但我们涉及10,000 AHS-2参与者的研究将探讨宗教信仰和实践不仅可能影响死亡率，而且还影响生活质量。此外，拟议的500名50-95岁以上的研究成员将生活在洛玛·琳达附近，并参与该研究的临床部门，该临床部门将确定宗教效应的生物学和生理介质可能。这项研究应进一步了解宗教的各种表现如何积极和负面影响身心健康。