Lawler-Row Kathleen A, Elliott Jeff
Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
J Health Psychol. 2009 Jan;14(1):43-52. doi: 10.1177/1359105308097944.
Older adults completed questionnaires of religiosity, spirituality and health, as well as of the potential mediators of healthy behaviors and social support. Church membership related to potential mediators and positive health; given membership, frequency of attendance contributed less to health. Existential well-being was strongly related to all outcome health measures. Regression analyses indicated that spiritual wellbeing and prayer contributed to the prediction of psychological wellbeing, subjective well-being, physical symptoms and depression, even when the contributions of age, gender, healthy behaviors and social support were included. Healthy behaviors and social support operated only as partial mediators of the existential-health effects.
老年人完成了关于宗教信仰、精神性和健康的问卷，以及关于健康行为和社会支持的潜在中介因素的问卷。教会成员身份与潜在中介因素和积极健康相关；在有成员身份的情况下，参加频率对健康的贡献较小。存在幸福感与所有健康结果指标密切相关。回归分析表明，即使纳入了年龄、性别、健康行为和社会支持的影响，精神幸福感和祈祷仍有助于预测心理健康、主观幸福感、身体症状和抑郁。健康行为和社会支持仅作为存在-健康效应的部分中介因素。
