Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Psychol Health. 2013;28(3):267-83. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2012.717624. Epub 2012 Aug 28.
Religious social support may in part account for the relationship between religious involvement and health-related outcomes. African Americans, on average, tend to have relatively high levels of religious involvement, and suffer a higher burden of health conditions than other groups. This study aimed to examine whether religious social support played a mediating role between religious involvement and physical and emotional functioning, and depressive symptoms.
The study used a cross sectional telephone survey among a national probability sample of African Americans (n = 803). Study participants completed telephone interviews and data were analysed using structural equation modelling.
Physical and emotional functioning and depressive symptoms served as study outcomes.
In both the emotional functioning and depressive symptoms models, the indirect effect test from religious behaviours to emotional religious support indicated evidence for mediation. There was no mediation for the physical functioning model.
Implications for faith-based health promotion interventions are discussed.
宗教社会支持可能在一定程度上解释了宗教参与和与健康相关的结果之间的关系。平均而言，非裔美国人的宗教参与程度相对较高，并且比其他群体承受着更大的健康状况负担。本研究旨在检验宗教社会支持是否在宗教参与和身体及情绪功能以及抑郁症状之间起到了中介作用。
本研究使用了一项针对全国概率抽样的非裔美国人（n=803）的横断面电话调查。研究参与者完成了电话访谈，使用结构方程模型对数据进行了分析。
身体和情绪功能以及抑郁症状作为研究结果。
在情绪功能和抑郁症状模型中，宗教行为到情绪宗教支持的间接效应检验表明存在中介作用。在身体功能模型中则不存在中介作用。
讨论了基于信仰的健康促进干预的意义。
