Religion and Well-Being in Later Life

Koenig, Harold G.; Kvale, James N.; Ferrel, Carolyn

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“…KM Kirk et alattendance behavior. This tends to support criticisms that church attendance alone is not necessarily an adequate measure of religiosity or spirituality, 5,9,10 as it is evidently subject to different influences from those affecting a person's more intrinsic characteristics, at least in persons of more advanced age.…”

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“…However, the assessment of health outcomes in the present study is poor, being limited to measures of physical incapacitation and subjective self-rating of current health. We hope to investigate the possibility that self-transcendence is more important in improving prognosis (cf Koenig et al 5 for religious behaviors) than disease prevention using follow-up data.…”

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“…3 Some studies have found significant correlations between religious beliefs, attitudes or behavior and physical health or psychological well-being among older individuals, 1,4-6 whilst others have not. 7 Lack of agreement between studies has been attributed to the inadequacy of instruments used to measure religious attitudes and behavior, 5 and the situation is complicated by concerns regarding causation. 4,8 In particular, church attendance has been criticised as a measure of religiosity, with the observation that as people age and become restricted by financial considerations and physical disabilities, their ability to participate in organised religious activity decreases.…”

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Self–transcendence as a measure of spirituality in a sample of older Australian twins

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Martin

1999

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Measures of self-transcendence, physical health and psychological well-being were included in a self-report Health and Lifestyle questionnaire administered to Australian twins aged over 50 between 1993 and 1995. Self-transcendence appears to be higher among older Australian women than men, and was significantly associated with religious affiliation, marital status (in women) and age (in men). No strong correlations were observed between self-transcendence and any measure of psychological or physical health. Additive genetic effects were found to be important in influencing self-transcendence, with heritability estimates of 0.37 and 0.41 for men and women respectively, whilst shared environment effects were not found to be significant. Multivariate modelling of self-transcendence scores and self-reported church attendance behavior indicated substantially different etiologies for these variables, with implications for methods of investigation of religiosity and spirituality.

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1999

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“…14 Diener et al (2011). 15 Huang, Hsu, and Chen (2012); Koenig, Kvale, and Ferrel (1998);and McFadden (1995). 16 Popova (2010).…”

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Religion and wellbeing around the world: Social purpose, social time, or social insurance?

Graham¹,

Crown²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:A number of studies find that religious people are happier than non-religious ones. Yet a number of fundamental questions about that relationship remain unanswered. A critical one is the direction of causality: does religion make people happier or are happier people more likely to have faith in something that is beyond their control? We posit that the relationship between religion and wellbeing is mediated by factors ranging from intrinsic purpose, to its social aspects, to its role as an insurance mechanism for people who face great adversity. We explore a number of related questions, using world-wide data from the Gallup World Poll. As these data are crosssection data, we cannot establish causality; we do, however, explore: how or if the relationship between religion and wellbeing varies across the two distinct wellbeing dimensions (hedonic and evaluative); how social externalities mediate the relationship; how the relationship changes as countries and people within them become more prosperous and acquire greater means and agency; and how the relationship between religion and wellbeing varies depending on where respondents are in the wellbeing distribution. We find that the positive relation between religion and evaluative wellbeing is more important for respondents with lower levels of agency, while the positive relation with hedonic wellbeing holds across the board. The social dimension of religion is most important for the least social respondents, while the religiosity component of religion is most important for the happiest respondents, regardless of religious affiliation or service attendance. As such, it seems that the happiest are most likely to seek social purpose in religion, the poorest are most likely to seek social insurance in religion, and the least social are the most likely to seek social time in religion.

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“…Clearly cohort effects are involved (Koenig, Kvale, & Ferrel, 1988), but there is also evidence that people become more religious or spiritual as they age (see Krause Chapter 22). To the extent that religiousness has salutary direct or indirect effects on health, the higher levels of religiousness observed among the elderly may also reflect survival effects.…”

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Religion and Well-Being in Later Life

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Self–transcendence as a measure of spirituality in a sample of older Australian twins

Self–transcendence as a measure of spirituality in a sample of older Australian twins

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