Department of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA.
Department of Sociology, Baylor University, 97326 One Bear Place, Waco, TX, 76798, USA.
J Relig Health. 2024 Feb;63(1):202-223. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01780-0. Epub 2023 Mar 2.
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have linked the subjective experience of neighborhood disorder (perceptions of crime, dilapidation and ambient strains) with poorer health. We test whether religious struggles (religious doubts and feeling abandoned or punished by God) mediate this association. Our counterfactual mediation analyses of data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS) (n = 1741) revealed consistent indirect effects of neighborhood disorder through religious struggles for anger, psychological distress, sleep disturbance, poorer self-rated health, and shorter subjective life expectancy. This study contributes to previous work by integrating the study of neighborhood context and religion.
在过去的二十年中,许多研究将邻里失序的主观体验(对犯罪、破旧和环境压力的感知)与较差的健康状况联系起来。我们检验宗教斗争(宗教疑虑以及感到被上帝抛弃或惩罚)是否调解这种关联。我们对 2021 年犯罪、健康和政治调查(CHAPS)(n=1741)数据进行的反事实中介分析显示,邻里失序通过宗教斗争对愤怒、心理困扰、睡眠障碍、较差的自我评估健康状况和较短的主观预期寿命产生一致的间接影响。本研究通过整合邻里环境和宗教的研究,为前人的工作做出了贡献。