Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Relig Health. 2024 Oct;63(5):3729-3743. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02112-6. Epub 2024 Aug 28.
The relationship between religiosity, spirituality and health has received increasing attention in the academic literature. Studies involving quantitative measurement of religiosity and/or spirituality (R/S) and health have reported many positive associations between these constructs. The quality of various measures, however, is very important in this field, given concerns that some measures of R/S have been contaminated with indicators of mental health. When this occurs, that is when R/S is defined and measured a priori, this subsequently guarantees a positive association between R/S and health (especially mental health). Such associations are called tautological, which involves correlating a construct with itself, thus producing associations that are uninterpretable and misleading. In this article, concerns about the measurement of R/S are discussed, examples of contaminated and potentially probelmatic measures of R/S are noted, and recommendations are made regarding uncontaminated measures of R/S that should be used in future studies of R/S and health.
宗教信仰、精神信仰与健康之间的关系在学术文献中受到越来越多的关注。涉及宗教信仰和/或精神信仰（R/S）与健康的定量测量的研究报告了这些结构之间的许多积极关联。然而，鉴于一些 R/S 测量指标可能受到心理健康指标的污染，因此该领域中各种测量方法的质量非常重要。当这种情况发生时，即当 R/S 被先验地定义和测量时，这随后保证了 R/S 与健康之间存在积极的关联（特别是心理健康）。这种关联被称为同义反复，它涉及将一个结构与自身相关联，从而产生不可解释和误导的关联。本文讨论了对 R/S 测量的担忧，注意到 R/S 的污染和潜在有问题的测量方法的例子，并就未来 R/S 和健康研究中应使用的未受污染的 R/S 测量方法提出了建议。
