Interactive Effects of Church Attendance and Religious Tradition on Depressive Symptoms and Positive Affect

Schwadel, Philip; Falci, Christina

doi:10.1177/2156869312442885

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“…As Schwadel and Falci (2012) argue: “an additional social resource is the ability of churches to help congregants make new connections across diverse social networks” (p. 22). For example, the religious are more embedded in a cohesive neighborhood (McCullough and Smith 2003).…”

Section: Belonging and Life Satisfaction: Cultural And Structural Facmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging

Kate

Koster

Waal

2017

Review of Religious Research

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The positive relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction is well-established. This relationship is, however, likely to vary across cultural contexts and different religious affiliations. Furthermore, research is needed to uncover why religion is relevant for life satisfaction. Addressing these issues, we investigate what dimensions of being religious play a role in the life satisfaction of individuals with different religious affiliations, including the understudied Muslim category, in the highly secularized Dutch context. We examine ‘believing’, which captures how religion provides meaning and a coherent worldview, and ‘belonging’, which comprises both cultural benefits of being embedded in a congregation with a shared framework of meaning and structural benefits due to more social ties. Analyses of the NEtherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (n = 5312) first indicate that Muslims display significantly lower life satisfaction than the non-religious, which appears to be due to their underprivileged social position rather than intra-religious factors of believing and belonging. Second, we find that Catholics experience significant life satisfaction benefits compared to those who are not religious, and that only belonging plays a role in this association. Next to the beneficial effect of the structural aspect of belonging, which revolves around social ties, a cultural aspect of religious belonging appears to be salient, suggesting that an important life satisfaction advantage of religious communities lies in their ability to foster a sense of solidarity and commitment through a shared framework of meaning. We make several recommendations for further research based on these findings.

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Section: Belonging and Life Satisfaction: Cultural And Structural Facmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging

Kate

Koster

Waal

2017

Review of Religious Research

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“…For example, Brown et al [14] found that among Blacks in the USA, a positive correlation was found between perceived economic strain and level of depression, but religious involvement interacted significantly with this relationship in that in the context of economic strain, higher religious involvement was related to greater depressive symptoms as compared to those who had less religious involvement. Elsewhere, Schwadel and Falci [15] failed to find an overall relationship between religious involvement (church attendance) and depressive symptoms but they did find an interaction between levels of religious attendance and religious affiliation such that low attendance was positively associated with increased depressive symptoms for non-evangelical protestants and catholics but not for evangelical protestants. Also, religious attendance had no relationship with positive affect for their sample.…”

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The effect of spirituality and religious attendance on the relationship between psychological distress and negative life events

Kidwai

Mancha

Brown

et al. 2013

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose The aim of this study was to assess the effect of religious attendance and spirituality on the relationship between negative life events and psychological distress. Methods This was a cross-sectional study of 1,071 community dwelling adults from East Baltimore, Maryland who participated in the fourth (2004–2005) wave of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. The 20-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-20) was used to measure psychological distress. Multiple regression models were used to assess the association between negative life events and distress as well as to measure the effect of religious attendance and spirituality on the association between psychological distress and negative events while adjusting for demographic variables, past distress and social support from friends and relatives. Results In pooled analysis, negative events were significant predictors of distress, b = 1.00, β = 0.072, p < 0.05. Religious attendance and spirituality did not affect or modify the association between negative events and distress. However, religious attendance was inversely associated with distress with higher frequency of attendance associated with lower distress after controlling for demographic and social support factors, b = −2.10, β = −.110, p < 0.01 for attending 1–3 times a month; b = −2.39, β = −0.156, p < 0.01 for attending weekly; and b = −3.13, β = −0.160, p < 0.001 for attending more than once per week. In stratified analysis, negative events were associated with distress for those who were low on spirituality, b = 1.23, β = 0.092, p < .05, but not for those who were high on spirituality; the association between religious attendance and decreased distress was true only for those scoring high in spirituality. Social support accounted for some of the inverse association between religious and distress. Conclusion Religious attendance and spirituality may play a role in how people experience and deal with difficult life situations.

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“…The BIC-corrected Vuong test was used to compare the fit of non-nested models and the likelihood ratio test was used to compare the fit of nested models (Vuong, 1989). The zero component intercepts in the zero-augmented models were evaluated as a large negative coefficient value does not support the idea of zero inflation in the data (Schwadel and Falci, 2012; Erdman et al ., 2008). …”

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Evaluation of the Use of Zero-Augmented Regression Techniques to Model Incidence of Campylobacter Infections in FoodNet

Tremblay

Crim

Cole

et al. 2017

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

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The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) is currently using a negative binomial regression model to estimate temporal changes in the incidence of Campylobacter infection. FoodNet active surveillance in 483 counties collected data on 40212 Campylobacter cases between years 2004 and 2011. We explored models that disaggregated these data to allow us to account for demographic, geographic, and seasonal factors when examining changes in incidence of Campylobacter infection. We hypothesized that modeling structural zeros and including demographic variables would increase the fit of FoodNet’s Campylobacter incidence regression models. Five different models were compared: negative binomial without demographic covariates, negative binomial with demographic covariates, hurdle negative binomial with covariates in the count component only, hurdle negative binomial with covariates in both zero and count components, and zero-inflated negative binomial with covariates in the count component only. Of the models evaluated, the non-zero-augmented negative binomial model with demographic variables provided the best fit. Results suggest that even though zero inflation was not present at this level, individualizing the level of aggregation and using different model structures and predictors per site might be required to correctly distinguish between structural and observational zeros and to account for risk factors that vary geographically.

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Interactive Effects of Church Attendance and Religious Tradition on Depressive Symptoms and Positive Affect

Cited by 33 publications

References 65 publications

The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging

The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging

The effect of spirituality and religious attendance on the relationship between psychological distress and negative life events

Evaluation of the Use of Zero-Augmented Regression Techniques to Model Incidence of Campylobacter Infections in FoodNet

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