Religion, Health, and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Australia

Bernardelli, Luan Vinicius; Kortt, Michael A.; Michellon, Ednaldo

doi:10.1007/s10943-019-00810-0

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“…Associations between attendance and self-rated health have been found to be stronger in men (Nicholson et al, 2009 ), though we found no evidence with healthy life expectancy in men or women. Australian data have also shown high levels of faith and attendance to be associated with worse health (Bernardelli et al, 2020 ).…”

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Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey

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Research on religiosity and health has generally focussed on the United States, and outcomes of health or mortality but not both. Using the European Values Survey 2008, we examined cross-sectional associations between four dimensions of religiosity/spirituality: attendance, private prayer, importance of religion, belief in God; and healthy life expectancy (HLE) based on self-reported health across 47 European countries (n = 65,303 individuals). Greater levels of private prayer, importance of religion and belief in God, at a country level, were associated with lower HLE at age 20, after adjustment for confounders, but only in women. The findings may explain HLE inequalities between European countries.

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Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey

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“…Religious households regularly incur expenditure on religious activities, have less money to spend on clean energy, and are more likely to use non-clean energy. Simultaneously, some religious teachings may discourage residents from utilizing clean energy ( 59 ). The results of model (3) in Table 6 show that clean energy consumption is positively associated with the health of residents who are not religious and not associated with the health of residents who are religious.…”

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Household clean energy consumption and health: Theoretical and empirical analysis

Liang

Chandio

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The impact of energy consumption on health has become a widely debated topic around the world. However, much of the current research on this topic lacks a theoretical basis. As a result, this paper employs both theoretical and empirical analysis to investigate the impact of household clean energy consumption on residents' health. First, based on the theories of health economics and energy economics, this paper believes that the usage of clean energy can improve the health of residents. Then, the sample for this study is comprised of data from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, and the Order Probit Model is applied for the empirical analysis. The outcomes of basic regression, robustness testing, and the treatment of endogenous factors reveal that the usage of clean energy has greatly benefited the health of residents. Furthermore, the heterogeneity analysis shows that long-term use of clean energy greatly improved the health of non-religious people and had a more pronounced impact on the health of women and low-income residents. In addition, the mechanistic analysis indicates that subjective happiness and air quality played a partial mediating role in the impact of cleaner energy consumption on health. Finally, cleaner household energy reduced the prevalence of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, lung disease, asthma, and depression. The conclusion of this paper supports the view of some existing literature, and several policy recommendations are made based on the research findings.

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“…Individual‐level religious and spiritual practices, including religious service attendance and prayer, have been longitudinally associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including reduced all‐cause mortality (Chen & VanderWeele, 2018; VanderWeele et al., 2017; Wallace et al., 2019). However, some individual‐level indicators of religious participation have also been associated with poorer health outcomes (Bernardelli et al., 2020; Pargament et al., 2001). Further, some studies report null associations (Ferraro & Kim, 2014).…”

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A “Dark Side” of religion? Associations between religious involvement, identity and domestic violence determinants in Australia

Priest,

Esler,

Ransome

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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This study investigates associations between religious involvement and identity and attitudes related to domestic violence using nationally representative cross‐sectional data from n = 1287 Australian adults in the 2018 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA). Linear regression models were used to analyse the association between religious involvement (frequency of service attendance and prayer) and identity (religious, spiritual or both) with attitudes related to domestic violence (patriarchal beliefs, failure to acknowledge domestic violence as an issue and trust in faith leaders' responses to domestic violence). Results showed that religious service attendance, frequency of prayer and spiritual/religious identity were associated with more patriarchal beliefs about gender roles. There was no evidence that religious involvement or identity was associated with failure to acknowledge domestic violence as a national issue. In contrast, frequent (but not infrequent) religious involvement and religious identity were associated with failure to acknowledge domestic violence in participants' own faith communities. Addressing patriarchal beliefs and acknowledgement of domestic violence within faith communities among those who regularly attend services, pray and identify as religious are key targets for action to address domestic violence and improve population health.

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Religion, Health, and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Australia

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey

Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey

Household clean energy consumption and health: Theoretical and empirical analysis

A “Dark Side” of religion? Associations between religious involvement, identity and domestic violence determinants in Australia

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