Francis-Tan Andrew
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 469B Bukit Timah Road, #02-02, Singapore, 259771, Singapore.
J Relig Health. 2024 Dec 15. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02181-7.
This paper uses longitudinal data from 2002 to 2021 to investigate the extent to which physical illness is predictive of religiosity in the United States. Specifically, it leverages multiple rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), a survey of over 8000 Americans born between 1980 and 1984. Conditional fixed-effects logistic regressions are employed to examine the sample of respondents with changes in religiosity across survey rounds. All in all, the findings suggest that when people with less religious attachment experience physical illness, hope for healing and support draws them back to religion.
本文使用2002年至2021年的纵向数据，研究在美国身体疾病对宗教信仰的预测程度。具体而言，它利用了多轮《1997年全国青年纵向调查》（NLSY97），该调查涵盖了8000多名1980年至1984年出生的美国人。采用条件固定效应逻辑回归来检验在不同调查轮次中宗教信仰发生变化的受访者样本。总而言之，研究结果表明，当宗教信仰较弱的人经历身体疾病时，对康复和支持的渴望会使他们回归宗教。
