Van Cappellen Patty, LePage Drummond Tehya M
Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2024 Dec 2;19(12):e0309216. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309216. eCollection 2024.
Religions, as cultural systems, influence how people view and attune to their body. This research explores whether individual differences in various dimensions of religiosity are associated with interoceptive sensibility (IS), i.e., one's perceived ability to detect and interpret bodily signals. In Study 1, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus (N = 1570) reported their religiosity and completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, a well-validated measure of IS. Results show that religious identity moderates the relationship between the centrality of religion in one's life and IS such that the association is positive and medium for Christians, large for Muslims and Hindus. In addition, the medium positive correlation between frequency of religious practice and IS was similar across religious groups. Study 2 (N = 450) extended these results by measuring additional dimensions of religiosity and spirituality as well as investigating religious-related beliefs about the body, both positive (e.g., My body is holy) and negative (e.g., My body is sinful). Associations between religiosity and IS are replicated and found for spirituality as well. Interestingly, mediation analyses reveal that belief in the body as holy partially explains the association between religiosity and IS, but belief in the body as sinful suppresses such association. We discuss how religion, as a cultural factor, may influence beliefs about the body and bodily awareness, with implications for emotion regulation and mental health.
宗教作为一种文化体系，影响着人们对自身身体的看法和调适方式。本研究探讨宗教虔诚度各个维度上的个体差异是否与内感受敏感性（IS）相关，即个体感知和解读身体信号的能力。在研究1中，基督教徒、穆斯林和印度教徒（N = 1570）报告了他们的宗教虔诚度，并完成了内感受觉知多维评估，这是一种经过充分验证的IS测量方法。结果表明，宗教身份调节了宗教在个人生活中的核心地位与IS之间的关系，即这种关联对基督教徒来说是正向且中等程度的，对穆斯林和印度教徒来说是强的。此外，宗教实践频率与IS之间的中等正相关在不同宗教群体中相似。研究2（N = 450）通过测量宗教虔诚度和灵性的其他维度，以及调查与身体相关的宗教信仰，包括积极的（如“我的身体是神圣的”）和消极的（如“我的身体是有罪的”），扩展了这些结果。宗教虔诚度与IS之间的关联得到了重复，并且在灵性方面也发现了这种关联。有趣的是，中介分析表明，相信身体是神圣的部分解释了宗教虔诚度与IS之间的关联，但相信身体是有罪的则抑制了这种关联。我们讨论了宗教作为一种文化因素如何可能影响对身体的信念和身体觉知，以及对情绪调节和心理健康的影响。
