Religious Involvement, Stress, and Mental Health: Findings from the 1995 Detroit Area Study

Ellison, Christopher G.; Boardman, Jason D.; Williams, David R.; Jackson, James S.

doi:10.1353/sof.2001.0063

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“…Religious attendance is consistently higher among Blacks than Whites (Taylor, Chatters, Jayakody, & Levin, 1996). In turn, numerous studies have shown that religious attendance is associated with increased levels of subjective well-being and lower psychological distress and mental illness in general (Ellison, Boardman, Williams, & Jackson, 2001) and in the Black community (Ellison, 1995). Future research is likely to show that religion is a protective factor for Blacks in the face of inequality and discrimination.…”

Section: What Might Explain the Resilience In The Black Community?mentioning

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The Black–White Paradox in Health: Flourishing in the Face of Social Inequality and Discrimination

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2009

Journal of Personality

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This paper reviews published research and presents new analyses from the 1995 nationally representative sample from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study to investigate whether there is support for the paradox of race and health in the United States. Findings reveal that Blacks have lower rates of several common mental disorders, but Blacks also have higher rates of flourishing than Whites. Blacks are mentally resilient in the face of greater social inequality and exposure to discrimination as well as high rates of physical morbidity-all of which are distinctive risk factors for mental distress and mental illness in the general population. Findings also show that controlling for perceived discrimination increases the Black advantage in 12 of the 13 signs of flourishing, suggesting that Blacks would have even better mental health were it not for discrimination. This paper concludes by considering what mechanisms-both adaptive and maladaptive-might explain this particular example of resilience in the Black population.

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Section: What Might Explain the Resilience In The Black Community?mentioning

confidence: 90%

The Black–White Paradox in Health: Flourishing in the Face of Social Inequality and Discrimination

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2009

Journal of Personality

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“…Alongside this positive facet of faith in building resilience against traumas and traumatic life events, there is also research that points out the unfavourable aspect of faith [35,36]. These scholars have shown that it can also have a negative impact on resilience: it may have the potential to increase levels of fear, anxiety, or stress when perceptions and understandings of faith (and religion) rest upon negative feelings and beliefs.…”

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Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Ögtem-Young

2018

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Abstract:The concept of resilience continues to be popular within various discourses and disciplines across the social and natural sciences, and has also been adopted politically and in policy. The concept's extended and widening usage in ever-increasing contexts creates further complexities and contestation on what construes resilience. Generally, in these conceptualisations, resilience is a positive outcome following significant crisis and disaster at an extreme scale. However, such definitions and constructs ignore that resilience manifests itself in subtler and more mundane ways in people's daily life and daily activities. This article explores how resilience is built into everyday life and how faith is used as a tool of resilience by individuals from diverse communities in their daily experiences in the city of Birmingham. This article contributes to the resilience literature by exposing examples of resilience as narrated during our in-depth interviews with participants (comprised of members from various new and established migrant ethnic communities), with particular attention given to faith as a form of resilience. This article argues that resilience manifests itself in the day-to-day experiences and practices of individuals and that faith can play an important role in individuals' lives in overcoming and coping with the challenges of their daily stressors.

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“…In fact, rival bodies of scholarship have emerged. One stream of research has indicated a persistently null association between prayer and mental health (Ellison 1991;Ellison et al 2009;Schieman et al 2006), while another has linked prayer to adverse mental health conditions (Bradshaw et al 2008;Ellison 1995;Ellison et al 2001) ).…”

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Prayer, Meditation, and Anxiety: Durkheim Revisited

2017

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Durkheim argued that religion's emphasis on the supernatural combined with its unique ability to foster strong collective bonds lent it power to confer distinctive social benefits. Subsequent research has confirmed these propositions with respect to religion and mental health. At the same time, meditation has been linked to mental health benefits in intervention-based studies. Our investigation offers a unique test of two comparable inhibitors of anxiety-related symptoms in the general population, namely, prayer versus meditation. Using data from the 2010 wave of the Baylor Religion Survey, we find that frequent communal prayer is correlated with an increased incidence of anxiety-related symptoms whereas worship service attendance is negatively associated with reported anxiety. Attendance also combines with communal prayer to yield anxiety-reducing benefits. Meditation, measured as a dichotomous indicator, is unrelated to reported anxiety in our sample of American adults. Our study underscores the selective efficacy of collective forms of religious expression, and points to several promising directions for future research.

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Religious Involvement, Stress, and Mental Health: Findings from the 1995 Detroit Area Study

Abstract: Although interest in the links between religion and mental health has increased sharply in recent years

Cited by 428 publications

References 98 publications

The Black–White Paradox in Health: Flourishing in the Face of Social Inequality and Discrimination

The Black–White Paradox in Health: Flourishing in the Face of Social Inequality and Discrimination

Faith Resilience: Everyday Experiences

Prayer, Meditation, and Anxiety: Durkheim Revisited

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