Dilmaghani Maryam
Department of Economics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada.
J Relig Health. 2018 Feb;57(1):120-135. doi: 10.1007/s10943-017-0385-1.
Using the latest mental health cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey (N = 20,868), this paper examines how the importance of religion or spirituality in one's life associates with mental health. Based on this question, the population is divided into three groups of high religiosity, average religiosity, and secularized. Secularized individuals are shown to have large deficits in all the psychological markers suggested to mediate the relationship between religiosity and mental health, compared to the two other groups. In spite of these deficits, the secularized and the highly religious are found almost equally more likely to rate their mental health as excellent, than the individuals with average religiosity. Interestingly, these two groups are also more likely to rate their mental health as poor. Considering the ability to deal with day-to-day demands and unexpected problems in life as the dependent variable yields comparable results. Various explanations are explored.
本文利用加拿大社区健康调查的最新心理健康周期数据（样本量N = 20868），研究宗教或灵性在一个人生活中的重要性与心理健康之间的关联。基于这一问题，研究对象被分为高宗教信仰、中等宗教信仰和世俗化三组。结果显示，与其他两组相比，世俗化个体在所有被认为能调节宗教信仰与心理健康关系的心理指标上都存在较大缺陷。尽管存在这些缺陷，但与中等宗教信仰的个体相比，世俗化个体和高宗教信仰个体几乎同样更有可能将自己的心理健康评为优秀。有趣的是，这两组个体也更有可能将自己的心理健康评为较差。将应对日常生活需求和生活中意外问题的能力作为因变量进行分析，也得出了类似的结果。文中探讨了各种解释。
