University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
J Behav Med. 2009 Dec;32(6):582-91. doi: 10.1007/s10865-009-9223-6.
Positive health behaviors are crucial to cancer survivors' well-being, yet little is known about the personal factors that may facilitate positive health behaviors. The current study focuses on the association of religion/spirituality (R/S) and health behaviors, examining links between health behaviors and religious attendance, daily spiritual experiences, and religious struggle in a sample of 167 younger adult survivors of a variety of cancers. The extent to which positive affect (self-assurance) and negative affect (guilt/shame) mediate these links was also investigated. Results revealed that religious attendance had little impact on health behaviors, but that daily spiritual experiences were related to greater performance of health behaviors,while religious struggle was related to less. Self-assurance partially mediated the effects of daily spiritual experiences, while guilt/shame partially mediated the effects of religious struggle. The findings suggest that aspects of R/S may play important and different roles in the lifestyle choices of cancer survivors.
积极的健康行为对癌症幸存者的健康至关重要，但对于可能促进积极健康行为的个人因素知之甚少。本研究关注宗教/精神信仰（R/S）与健康行为之间的关系，在 167 名不同癌症的年轻成年幸存者样本中，研究了健康行为与宗教参与、日常精神体验和宗教斗争之间的联系。还调查了积极情绪（自信）和消极情绪（内疚/羞耻）在这些联系中起到的中介作用。结果表明，宗教参与对健康行为影响不大，但日常精神体验与更多的健康行为表现有关，而宗教斗争则与更少的健康行为表现有关。自信部分中介了日常精神体验的影响，而内疚/羞耻部分中介了宗教斗争的影响。研究结果表明，R/S 的某些方面可能在癌症幸存者的生活方式选择中发挥重要且不同的作用。
