Levin Jeff
Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97236, Waco, TX, 76798, USA,
J Relig Health. 2015 Apr;54(2):765-82. doi: 10.1007/s10943-014-9998-9.
Research findings on religion and health among Jews are in relatively short supply. While recent studies report on the health of Israelis and the mental health of Jews in the USA, little information exists on the physical health of US Jews, especially from population surveys. In this study, data are analyzed from five urban surveys of Jews conducted since 2000: two surveys from New York (N = 4,533; N = 5,993) and one apiece from Chicago (N = 1,993), Philadelphia (N = 1,217), and Boston (N = 1,766). A strategy of two-way ANCOVA with interaction was used to test for differences in self-rated health across five categories of Jewish religious affiliation (secular, Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Orthodox) and four categories of synagogue attendance (from never to at least weekly). Findings, adjusted for age and effects of other covariates, reveal that affiliated and synagogue-attending Jews report moderately better health than secular and non-attending Jews.
关于犹太人宗教与健康的研究发现相对较少。虽然近期有研究报告了以色列人的健康状况以及美国犹太人的心理健康状况，但关于美国犹太人身体健康的信息，尤其是来自人口调查的信息却很少。在本研究中，分析了自2000年以来对犹太人进行的五次城市调查的数据：两次来自纽约的调查（N = 4533；N = 5993），以及分别来自芝加哥（N = 1993）、费城（N = 1217）和波士顿（N = 1766）的各一次调查。采用带有交互作用的双向协方差分析策略，来检验犹太宗教归属的五个类别（世俗派、改革派、重建派、保守派、正统派）和犹太教堂礼拜出席情况的四个类别（从从不参加到至少每周参加）之间在自我评定健康方面的差异。在对年龄和其他协变量的影响进行调整后，研究结果显示，有宗教归属且参加犹太教堂礼拜的犹太人报告的健康状况比世俗和不参加礼拜的犹太人略好。
