Religiosity and Mortality Risk in Later Life

 描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是通过将其与国家死亡指数（NDI）的死亡率数据联系起来，扩展世代和心理健康纵向研究（LSOG）。增加死者的有效日期和潜在死亡原因将提供机会，以研究宗教信仰如何影响晚年的死亡风险，并为一般研究界开辟可能性，以调查其他心理社会因素对死亡率的影响，当这些新数据存档时。世代纵向研究（Longitudinal Study of Generations，LSOG）是一项对328个三代家庭的3,168名个体进行的研究，该研究始于1971年，一直持续到2006年。拟议项目的重点将放在1971年平均年龄分别为67岁和43岁的两代人中的1，217名受访者身上。宗教虔诚度的多维度测量已被应用于八波测量，包括参加宗教服务的频率，关于宗教在公共生活中的作用的价值观，保守宗教意识形态的信仰，作为一个宗教人士的身份，宗教在一个人的生活中的突出性，以及宗教教派。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年以上的死亡风险，并检查以下介导因素，通过这些介导因素，这种关系得以展开：社会融合（结构性、功能性和规范性）、健康 行为（烟草和酒精消费）和心理健康（抑郁，自尊和控制点）。超宗教信仰对生存的潜在负面影响也将在非线性模型中进行研究。研究的多参与者/全家族设计通过允许对死亡风险进行各种家族内评估提供了附加价值，这些评估保持了恒定的常见但未观察到的背景特征。这项调查将提供有关机制的知识，在两个年龄较大的队列中，将宗教信仰的行为和主观方面与健康结果联系起来。

 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.