Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2018 Dec 3;13(12):e0207778. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207778. eCollection 2018.
Prior research has suggested religious participation can promote marital satisfaction and stability. However, current literature has mainly focused on early life divorce, and used cross-sectional data, leaving open the question of the directionality of effects. We evaluated the prospective associations between service attendance and marital stability in mid and late life considering either 1) divorce or separation; or 2) remarriage, as separate outcomes. Data were drawn from the Nurses' Health Study, a large prospective cohort study that consisted of US female nurses in their 50s at study enrollment, with repeated measures of service attendance and marital status over 14 years of follow-up from 1996-2010. During follow up, among 66,444 initially married nurses who were mainly Christians, frequent service attendance was associated with 50% lower risk of divorce (95% CI: 32%, 63%), and 52% lower risk of either divorce or separation (95%CI: 37%, 63%). Among initially divorced or separated women, frequent service attendance was not associated with subsequent likelihood of remarriage; however, among widowed women, women who attended services frequently had 49% increased likelihood of remarriage (95% CI: 13%, 97%) compared to those women who did not. The study provides evidence that in this cohort of US nurses, frequent service attendance is associated with lower risk of becoming divorced in mid- and late- life, and increased likelihood of remarriage among widowed nurses, but not among divorced or separated nurses.
先前的研究表明，宗教参与可以促进婚姻满意度和稳定性。然而，目前的文献主要集中在早期的离婚上，并且使用了横断面数据，因此效果的方向性问题仍未得到解决。我们评估了在中年和晚年期间，服务参与度与婚姻稳定性之间的前瞻性关联，分别考虑了 1）离婚或分居；或 2）再婚，作为单独的结果。数据来自护士健康研究，这是一项大型前瞻性队列研究，包括 50 多岁的美国女性护士，在 1996-2010 年的 14 年随访中，对服务参与度和婚姻状况进行了重复测量。在随访期间，在 66444 名最初已婚的主要是基督教徒的护士中，频繁参加宗教服务与离婚风险降低 50%相关（95%CI：32%，63%），与离婚或分居的风险降低 52%相关（95%CI：37%，63%）。在最初离婚或分居的女性中，频繁参加宗教服务与随后再婚的可能性无关；然而，在丧偶的女性中，与不参加宗教服务的女性相比，经常参加宗教服务的女性再婚的可能性增加了 49%（95%CI：13%，97%）。该研究提供了证据表明，在这个美国护士队列中，频繁参加宗教服务与中年和晚年离婚风险降低有关，丧偶护士再婚的可能性增加，但离婚或分居的护士则不然。
