What’s God Got to Do with It? How Religiosity Predicts Atheists’ Health
The relationship between atheism and health is poorly understood within the Religion/Spirituality-health literature. While the extant literature promotes the idea that Attendance, Prayer, and Religiosity are connected to positive health outcomes, these relationships have not been established when co...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of religion and health |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2016]
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Journal of religion and health
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus NCH Medizinische Ethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Atheism
B Health B General Social Survey B Homoscedasticity B Statistical moderation |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The relationship between atheism and health is poorly understood within the Religion/Spirituality-health literature. While the extant literature promotes the idea that Attendance, Prayer, and Religiosity are connected to positive health outcomes, these relationships have not been established when controlling for whether a person is an atheist. Data from the 2008-2012 American General Social Survey (n = 3210) were used to investigate this relationship. Results indicated that atheists experienced Religiosity more negatively than non-atheists. Additionally, results demonstrated that non-belief in God was not related to better or worse perceived global health, suggesting that belief in God is not inherently linked to better reported health. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-015-0083-9 |