TY - JOUR
T1 - Religious attendance and psychological well-being in middle-aged and older mexican americans
AU - Levin, Jeffrey S.
AU - Markides, Kyriakos S.
N1 - Funding Information:
1. The authors wish to acknowledge the programming assistance of Laura A. Ray. This research was supported by Grant No. AG04170 from the National Institute on Aging and by a grant form the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - The relationship between religious attendance and psychological well-being is explored ir a sample of middle-aged and older Mexican American men and women. Religious attendance has significant zero-order effects on life satisfaction in older men and in middle-aged and older women. The associations remain significant in women, despite controlling for age, marital status, social class, and either of two indicators of health status. Previous work in gerontology and epidemiology suggests that religious attendance, especially among older adults, may represent a proxy for health, but our findings provide only mixed confirmation of this, and only in older men. In women, religious attendance does appear to have a substantive independent effect on well-being.
AB - The relationship between religious attendance and psychological well-being is explored ir a sample of middle-aged and older Mexican American men and women. Religious attendance has significant zero-order effects on life satisfaction in older men and in middle-aged and older women. The associations remain significant in women, despite controlling for age, marital status, social class, and either of two indicators of health status. Previous work in gerontology and epidemiology suggests that religious attendance, especially among older adults, may represent a proxy for health, but our findings provide only mixed confirmation of this, and only in older men. In women, religious attendance does appear to have a substantive independent effect on well-being.
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U2 - 10.2307/3711104
DO - 10.2307/3711104
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963011849
SN - 1069-4404
VL - 49
SP - 66
EP - 72
JO - Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
JF - Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
IS - 1
ER -