Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Health Soc Behav. 2011 Mar;52(1):91-106. doi: 10.1177/0022146510394950.
In the present study, the authors examine the extent to which effects of individual religious involvement on self-assessed health are influenced by the religious context (i.e., religious involvement at the country level). The authors test their expectations using individual level data (N = 127,257) on 28 countries from the European Social Surveys (2002-2008). Results of multilevel analyses show that individual religious attendance is positively related to self-assessed health in Europe. Protestants appear to feel healthier than Catholics. Moreover, modeling cross-level interactions demonstrates that religious denominations at the national level are influential: The health advantage of Protestants as compared to Catholics is greater as the percentage of Protestants in a country is higher, yet smaller as countries have a higher percentage of Catholics. The association between religious attendance and self-assessed health does not depend on the national level of religious attendance.
在本研究中，作者考察了个人宗教参与对自我评估健康的影响在多大程度上受到宗教背景（即国家层面的宗教参与）的影响。作者使用来自欧洲社会调查的 28 个国家的个人层面数据（N=127257）检验了他们的预期。多层次分析的结果表明，在欧洲，个人的宗教参与与自我评估的健康呈正相关。新教徒似乎比天主教徒感觉更健康。此外，跨层次交互建模表明，国家层面的宗教教派具有影响力：与天主教徒相比，新教徒的健康优势随着一个国家新教徒比例的增加而增加，但随着国家天主教徒比例的增加而减小。宗教参与和自我评估健康之间的关联并不取决于国家层面的宗教参与程度。
