Princeton University, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and Office of Population Research, 288 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2013 Mar;42(2):311-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.10.006. Epub 2012 Nov 9.
Based on a life course framework we propose that a cancer diagnosis is associated with increased religiosity and that this relationship is contingent upon three social clocks: cohort (1920-1945, 1946-1964, 1964+), age-at-diagnosis, and years-since-diagnosis. Using prospective data from the National Survey of Midlife Development (N=3443), taken in 1994-1995 and 2004-2006, we test these arguments. Results showed that a cancer diagnosis was associated with increased religiosity. Moreover, we found: (a) no evidence that the influence of cancer varied by cohort; (b) strong evidence that people diagnosed with cancer at earlier ages experienced the largest increases in religiosity; and (c) no evidence that changes in religiosity are influenced by years-since-diagnosis. Our study emphasizes how personal reactions to cancer partly reflect macro-level processes, represented by age-at-diagnosis, and shows that the religion-health connection can operate such that health influences religiosity. The study also highlights the sociological and psychological interplay that shapes people's religiosity.
基于生命历程框架，我们提出癌症诊断与宗教信仰的增强有关，这种关系取决于三个社会时钟：队列（1920-1945、1946-1964、1964+）、诊断时的年龄和诊断后年数。我们使用 1994-1995 年和 2004-2006 年进行的全国中年发展调查（N=3443）的前瞻性数据检验了这些论点。结果表明，癌症诊断与宗教信仰的增强有关。此外，我们发现：（a）没有证据表明癌症的影响因队列而异；（b）有强有力的证据表明，在较早年龄被诊断出患有癌症的人经历了宗教信仰的最大增长；（c）没有证据表明宗教信仰的变化受诊断后年数的影响。我们的研究强调了人们对癌症的个人反应如何部分反映了代表诊断时年龄的宏观层面过程，并表明健康与宗教信仰之间的联系可以运作，使健康影响宗教信仰。该研究还突出了塑造人们宗教信仰的社会学和心理学相互作用。
