Depression and Religiosity in African American and White Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Autor:	Michael Parker, Martha R. Crowther, Patricia Sawyer Baker, David L. Klemmack, Richard M. Allman, Lucinda Lee Roff, Harold G. Koenig
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Gerontology Social work media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Mental health Religiosity Social support Anthropology Psychology Socioeconomic status Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Depression (differential diagnoses) Diversity (politics) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 10:175-189
ISSN:	1540-3556 1091-1359
DOI:	10.1300/j137v10n01_04
Popis:	This research examined the extent to which religiosity was predictive of level of depression, even after controlling for race, gender, social support, income sufficiency, and physical health. Data were collected using in-home interviews conducted from 1999 to 2001 with 1,000 adults age 65 to 106. Subjects were recruited from a stratified, random sample of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older in five central Alabama counties (three rural and two urban). The sample was stratified by county, race, and sex and included balanced numbers of African American males and females and White males and females. Highly religious persons had lower levels of depression, even when controlling for other known covariates, β = -.16, t(972) p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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