Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
J Affect Disord. 2011 Aug;132(3):389-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.03.007. Epub 2011 Mar 31.
We examined relationships of measures of personal importance of religion and frequency of attendance at religious services with risk of depression and risk behaviours in high school students in Cape Breton, Canada. We examined the impact of confounding and explanatory factors on these relationships.
Data were drawn from self-report surveys of adolescents aged 15-19 (N=1615) at three high schools in May, 2006. We used logistic regression to assess associations of religious importance and religious service attendance with risk of depression, suicidal behaviour, binge drinking and frequent marijuana use, controlling in multivariate models for sociodemographic factors, family structure and social capital.
Among females, higher personal importance of religion was associated with decreased odds of depression, suicidal ideation, drinking and marijuana use, while more religious attendance was protective for substance use behaviours and suicidal ideation. In males, both measures of religiosity were associated with decreased substance use. In multivariate models, religious importance had weak protective effects for depression and suicidal thinking in females, which were respectively modified by social trust and substance use. Attendance was protective for suicidal thinking in females, and was modified by depression. These associations were not seen in males. Attendance was consistently associated with less substance use in females, while importance was not. Importance was consistently protective for marijuana use and attendance was protective for binge drinking in males.
This was a cross-sectional self-report survey and causality cannot be inferred.
Protective associations of measures of religiosity are seen in Canadian adolescents, as they are elsewhere.
我们研究了加拿大布雷顿角岛高中生宗教个人重要性衡量标准和参加宗教服务的频率与抑郁风险和风险行为之间的关系。我们研究了混杂因素和解释因素对这些关系的影响。
数据来自 2006 年 5 月三所高中 15-19 岁青少年（N=1615）的自我报告调查。我们使用逻辑回归评估宗教重要性和宗教服务参与度与抑郁、自杀行为、狂饮和频繁使用大麻的风险之间的关联，在多变量模型中控制社会人口因素、家庭结构和社会资本。
在女性中，宗教个人重要性越高，抑郁、自杀意念、饮酒和大麻使用的几率越低，而宗教参与度越高则对物质使用行为和自杀意念有保护作用。在男性中，宗教信仰的两种衡量标准都与减少物质使用有关。在多变量模型中，宗教重要性对女性的抑郁和自杀思维有微弱的保护作用，分别受到社会信任和物质使用的影响。在男性中没有看到这些关联。参加宗教活动对女性的自杀意念有保护作用，而抑郁则对其有影响。在女性中，参加宗教活动与减少物质使用有关，而宗教重要性则无关。在男性中，宗教重要性对大麻使用有保护作用，而参加宗教活动对狂饮有保护作用。
这是一项横断面的自我报告调查，不能推断因果关系。
在加拿大青少年中，与其他地方一样，宗教信仰的衡量标准与保护作用有关。
