scholarly journals Religious Service Attendance, Educational Attainment, and Hypertension at Baseline of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 452-457
Author(s):  
Ana C Varella ◽  
Isabela M Benseñor ◽  
Maria J M Fonseca ◽  
Rosane H Griep ◽  
Alexandre C Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Service Attendance

Abstract Background Some religious dimensions have been associated with different health-related outcomes over many years. Attending religious services is one of these dimensions that were associated with hypertension, with inconsistent results. And religious involvement seems to be closely influenced by sociodemographic factors, such as education. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between religious service attendance and hypertension according to levels of education. Methods We analyzed baseline data of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Frequency of religious service attendance and presence of hypertension were assessed in all 15,105 participants at baseline. The analyses were stratified by two levels of education (less than high school and high school or more). Logistic regression models were used to obtain the association between religious service attendance and hypertension in both groups. Results For those with high school or more, attending religious services was positively associated with hypertension (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 1.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.02–1.28). In contrast, for those with less than high school, attending services was inversely associated with presence of hypertension (adjusted OR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.55–0.96). Conclusions There seems to be a paradox in the association of religious service attendance and hypertension depending on the level of education.

scholarly journals The impact of religious attendance on trust, volunteering, and cooperation: A cross-lagged panel analysis with individual fixed-effects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozan Aksoy ◽  
Dingeman Wiertz
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Attendance

Does religious involvement make people more trusting, prosocial, and cooperative? In view of conflicting theories and mixed prior evidence, we subject this question to a stringent test using large-scale, representative panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2009, N ≈ 26,000) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2019, N ≈ 77,000). We employ cross-lagged panel models with individual fixed effects to account for time-invariant confounders and reverse causality as two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that religious involvement, measured by frequency of religious service attendance, on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and cooperation. Compared with religious attendance, other indicators of religious involvement, such as subjective importance of religion or whether one is religiously affiliated, have weaker effects on trust, volunteering, and cooperation. We also document substantial variation across religious traditions: the effects of religious attendance are strongest for Anglicans and other Protestants, but weaker and mostly statistically insignificant for Catholics, Hindus, and the nonreligious, while for Muslims we observe a negative effect of religious attendance on cooperation. Our findings are robust to the inclusion of potential confounders and a range of alternative model set-ups. Our study thus shows that religious involvement can indeed foster prosocial behaviours and attitudes, although this effect is in the current study context mostly restricted to religious service attendance and majority religions.

Abstract 17418: Religious Attendance and Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Older Women

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Z Butler ◽  
Natalie B Slopen ◽  
Alan Zaslavsky ◽  
Julie E Buring ◽  
Michelle A Albert
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Ideal Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Service Attendance

Introduction: Although religious attendance can act as a protective health factor likely through social support and inherent beliefs, little is known about the relationship between the frequency of religious attendance and ideal cardiovascular health (ICH), particularly in older women, many of whom attend religious activities. Methods: We utilized the Women’s Health Study (WHS) follow-up psychosocial stress cohort (n=24360; mean age=71.8, SD= 5.8 years) to evaluate the cross-sectional relationship between current religious service attendance and ICH, as defined by the American Heart Association 2020 ICH score. Frequency of religious attendance was classified as never, at least once a year, at least once a month, and at least once a week. Results: Compared to women who never attend religious services, women who participate in religious services at least once a week are more likely to be hypertensive and hypercholesterolemic, less likely to be smokers or to use alcohol, less physically active, had lower education levels and more likely to earn < $50,000 annually/household. In age-adjusted models, religious service attendance at least once a month and once a week was associated with a 17% and 36 % higher odds of ICH, respectively. This relationship persisted in models that additionally adjusted for race/ethnicity, education, income, psychological status and social support for women who attended religious services at least once a week [Table]. Conclusion: Among women in the Women’s Health Study, compared to non-attenders women who attended religious services weekly displayed a 30% higher odds of ideal cardiovascular health, despite adjustment for social support and other risk factors. These data suggest that religious attendance may be beneficial to the cardiovascular health of older women via additional mechanisms beyond social support.

scholarly journals Prospective prediction of suicide in a nationally representative sample: religious service attendance as a protective factor

2014 ◽  
Vol 204 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan M. Kleiman ◽  
Richard T. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Representative Sample ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Service Attendance

BackgroundPrevious research into religious service attendance as a protective factor against suicide has been conducted only retrospectively, with psychological autopsy studies using proxy informants of completed suicide, rather than prospectively, with completed suicide as a dependent variable.AimsTo determine whether individuals who frequently attended religious services were less likely to die by suicide than those who did not attend so frequently.MethodWe analysed data from a nationally representative sample (n = 20 014), collected in the USA between 1988 and 1994, and follow-up mortality data from baseline to the end of 2006.ResultsCox proportional hazard regression analysis indicated that those who frequently attended religious services were less likely to die by suicide than those who did not attend, after accounting for the effects of other relevant risk factors.ConclusionsFrequent religious service attendance is a long-term protective factor against suicide.

scholarly journals Religion and Disability: Variation in Religious Service Attendance Rates for Children with Chronic Health Conditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Religious Involvement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chronic Health Conditions ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Attendance Rates ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Chronic Health ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
Service Attendance

Prior research consistently demonstrates greater religious involvement is associated with improved health outcomes for those with chronic health conditions. Fewer studies focus on how chronic health conditions influence religious service attendance rates and most focus on older Americans. Using three waves of a nationally representative sample of children in the United States, I test whether children with a chronic health condition never attend religious worship services at rates significantly higher than children without a condition. I also investigate variation in attendance rates across a broad range of conditions, something previously overlooked. Children with chronic health conditions are more likely to never attend religious worship services. Specifically, children with chronic health conditions that impede communication and social interaction are most likely to never attend. Despite shifts in prevalence these findings are stable over time. Implications for researchers, religious communities, families with children with chronic health conditions, and healthcare providers are discussed.

A Longitudinal Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vern L. Bengtson ◽  
Casey E. Copen ◽  
Norella M. Putney ◽  
Merril Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Socialization ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Religious Influence ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Service Attendance

The longitudinal study of religious transmission or influence across generations is an important but underexamined area of research, particularly in terms of the religious influence of grandparents. How much influence do grandparents have on grandchildren's religious beliefs and practices, and has this changed over the past 30 years? As grandparents have become increasingly important in multigenerational families, do they exert an influence on their grandchildren's religiosity that is distinct from that of parents? Drawing on the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), this article uses grandparent—parent—grandchild triads and a generational sequential design to examine the transmission of three dimensions of religiosity — religious service attendance, religiousness and religious ideology — across generations from 1971 to 2000. Results indicate that in 1971 grandparents significantly influenced grandchildren's religious service attendance and religiousness, but these effects had weakened by 2000. The opposite pattern occurred for the transmission of conservative religious beliefs where there was a significant grandparent on grandchild effect in 2000, but not in 1971. Grandparents were also found to influence all three dimensions of grandchildren's religiosity independent of that of parents, suggesting that religious beliefs and practices formed within nuclear and extended families persist into adulthood with parents and grandparents simultaneously serving as independent and joint agents of religious socialization. In these analyses it was found that the influence of grandmothers on granddaughters' religiosity was especially pronounced. In general, the study shows a significant degree of religious influence across three generations in the family, and offers an expanded view of religious socialization by considering grandparents as active contributors to the religiosity of young adults.

scholarly journals Christian Nationalism and Views of Immigrants in the United States: Is the Relationship Stronger for the Religiously Inactive?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312098511
Author(s):  
Samuel Stroope ◽  
Heather M. Rackin ◽  
Paul Froese
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Christian Nationalism ◽  
Service Attendance

Previous research has shown that Christian nationalism is linked to nativism and immigrant animus, while religious service attendance is associated with pro-immigrant views. The findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between religious ideologies and practices when considering how religion affects politics. Using a national sample of U.S. adults, we analyze immigrant views by measuring levels of agreement or disagreement that undocumented immigrants from Mexico are “mostly dangerous criminals.” We find that Christian nationalism is inversely related to pro-immigrant views for both the religiously active and inactive. However, strongly pro-immigrant views are less likely and anti-immigrant views are more likely among strong Christian nationalists who are religiously inactive compared with strong Christian nationalists who are religiously active. These results illustrate how religious nationalism can weaken tolerance and heighten intolerance most noticeably when untethered from religious communities.

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