Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Religiousness and Spirituality in Late Adulthood 185 Because spirituality demonstrated low rank order stability across the adult ...

186 Michele Dillon and Paul Wink Table 14.1.The Relations Between Religiousness, Spirituality and Vital Involvement in Late Adul ...

Religiousness and Spirituality in Late Adulthood 187 by observers as giving, sympathetic, protective of others, and warm. Simila ...

188 Michele Dillon and Paul Wink this effect is evident among older adults in general or whether it is restricted to samples who ...

Religiousness and Spirituality in Late Adulthood 189 understanding a substantial part of the lives of older persons. Whether it ...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Religion and Health Depressive Symptoms and Mortality as Case Studies Michael E. McCullough and Timothy B. Smith ...

Religion and Health 191 health differences among people of varying degrees of religiousness or varying religious persuasions. Fi ...

192 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith life satisfaction, greater marital satisfaction and family cohesion, more ability to co ...

Religion and Health 193 participants total) that had addressed the cross-sectional association of one or more measures of religi ...

194 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith effect in the research specific to depression has potentially strong implications for t ...

Religion and Health 195 A recent prospective study of 3,968 community-dwelling older adults from the Pied- mont region of North ...

196 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith although the direction of the associations still indicated that frequent attenders were ...

Religion and Health 197 females in the sample; (c) number of statistical adjustments made to the association; and (d) whether th ...

198 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith Another important predictor of effect size was the percentage of males in the study sam ...

Religion and Health 199 and Fleming 2000). While null hypothesis significance testing has certainly been valuable in the evoluti ...

200 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith (relative hazard=0.76), and individual and group social involvement versus social isola ...

Religion and Health 201 How “Real” Is the Religion-Health Association? Is the religion-health association “valid”?Contemporary i ...

202 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith mediators of religiousness and all potential confounds are controlled statistically, wh ...

Religion and Health 203 religion-health relationships in specific data sets. We wonder, however, whether they are the best appro ...

204 Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith In this chapter, we have focused on a very thin slice of the religion-health field – th ...