The relationship between parental religiosity and mental health of pre-adolescents in a community sample: the TRAILS study

Jagt-Jelsma, W. van der; Vries-Schot, M. de; Jong, Rint de; Verhulst, Frank C.; Ormel, Johan; Veenstra, René; Swinkels, Sophie H. N.; Buitelaar, Jan K.

doi:10.1007/s00787-011-0171-7

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“…This hypothesis is confirmed on the base of the results. This has also been found in the general population cohort study of TRAILS [38]. Other research in this area has not specifically included religiosity of fathers as a variable [1,30] in relation to mental health.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…It has been suggested that religiosity of fathers is associated with increased adolescent activity in the religious realm [22]. Religiosity of father was not associated with mental health of pre-adolescents in this study [38], a finding that resulted in the third hypothesis of this study. Religious disharmony is associated with more self-reported externalizing problem behavior in boys [38] in the general population cohort of TRAILS.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…In a previous study with TRAILS data, no association with internalizing and externalizing problem behavior was found between religiosity of parents and mental health of pre-adolescents. However, parental harmony about religion was associated with less internalizing and externalizing problem behavior in pre-adolescents [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In particular, frequent maternal participation in religious services is associated with better well-being and more social support from friends in pre-adolescents compared to pre-adolescents whose mothers had lower levels of participation in religious services [39]. In the general population cohort study of TRAILS, religiosity of mother was only modestly associated with more internalizing problem behavior, but only in case of parental disharmony in combination with passive religiosity (meaning: no church going activity) of the mother [38]. On the base of these studies, we formulated our second hypothesis.…”

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“…Parental religiosity can also influence the mental health of the pre-adolescent [19,20,25,26]. The TRAILS study found maternal religiosity to influence the mental health of her child in the general population cohort.…”

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Longitudinal study of religiosity and mental health of adolescents with psychiatric problems. The TRAILS study

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Vries-Schot²,

Scheepers

et al. 2017

Eur. psychiatr.

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Association of Parent and Offspring Religiosity With Offspring Suicide Ideation and Attempts

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Wickramaratne

Reich³

et al. 2018

JAMA Psychiatry

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IMPORTANCE Previous studies have shown an inverse association between offspring religiosity and suicidal ideation/attempts, but the association of parent religiosity on offspring suicidal ideation/attempts has not been examined. OBJECTIVE To examine associations of parent and offspring religiosity with suicide ideation and attempts in offspring. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS The study is based on offspring (generation 3) from a 3-generation family study at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, in which generations 2 and 3 were defined as being at high risk or low risk for major depressive disorder because of the presence or absence of major depressive disorder in generation 1. The association between suicidal behaviors (ideation/attempts) and parent and offspring religiosity in generation 3 offspring aged 6 to 18 years (214 offspring from 112 nuclear families) was examined. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Parents' psychiatric diagnoses and suicidal behaviors were assessed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, and offspring were independently assessed using the child version. Two measures of religiosity were assessed: religious importance and religious attendance. Logistic regressions in the framework of generalized estimation equations were performed to analyze offspring suicidal behaviors while adjusting for sibling correlation and offspring age, sex, and familial depression risk status. RESULTS Of 214 offspring, 112 (52.3%) were girls. Offspring religious importance was associated with a lower risk for suicidal behavior in girls (odds ratio [OR], 0.48; 95% CI, 0.33-0.70) but not in boys (OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.74-1.80) (religiosity by sex interaction, P = .05). Religious attendance was associated with a lower risk for suicidal behavior in girls (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.49-0.84) but not boys (OR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.69-1.27) (religiosity by sex interaction, P = .17). Parent religious importance was associated with a lower risk for offspring suicidal behavior (OR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.41-0.91) but not parent religious attendance. When parent and offspring religious importance were considered simultaneously, we found a lower risk associated with parental religious importance (OR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.39-0.96) independent of offspring importance. These associations were independent of parental depression, marital status, and parental suicide ideation. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this study, parental belief in religious importance was associated with lower risk for suicidal behavior in offspring independent of an offspring's own belief about religious importance and other known parental factors, such as parental depression, suicidal behavior, and divorce.

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The relationship between parental religiosity and mental health of pre-adolescents in a community sample: the TRAILS study

Cited by 15 publications

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Religiosity and mental health of pre-adolescents with psychiatric problems and their parents: The TRAILS study

Religiosity and mental health of pre-adolescents with psychiatric problems and their parents: The TRAILS study

Longitudinal study of religiosity and mental health of adolescents with psychiatric problems. The TRAILS study

Association of Parent and Offspring Religiosity With Offspring Suicide Ideation and Attempts

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