Nelson F L
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1977 Summer;7(2):67-74.
The relationship of religiosity to self-destructive behavior has largely been considered in terms of the impact of religious affiliation, or church membership, on rates of suicide for various geographical populations. This study departs from that approach and focuses instead on the relationship of intensity of religious commitment to the use of indirect life-threatening behavior (ILTB) among elderly, chronically ill hospital patients. A rating scale to measure the occurrence of ILTB was developed and administered to a sample of 58 patients in a Veterans Administration hospital. Findings for this sample indicate that intensity of religious commitment is a potentially more meaningful measure of religiosity than is formal church membership, that intensity of religious commitment tends to vary inversely with the extent of ILTB observed for the patient, and that "stigma avoidance" may play a role in the tendency for certain religious affiliates to make more extensive use of ILTB.
宗教虔诚度与自我毁灭行为之间的关系，很大程度上是从宗教归属或教会成员身份对不同地理区域人群自杀率的影响方面来考量的。本研究背离了那种方法，而是聚焦于宗教虔诚度的强度与老年慢性病住院患者中间接危及生命行为（ILTB）的使用之间的关系。我们开发了一个用以测量ILTB发生情况的评定量表，并将其应用于一家退伍军人管理局医院的58名患者样本。该样本的研究结果表明，宗教虔诚度的强度可能比正式的教会成员身份更能有效地衡量宗教虔诚程度，宗教虔诚度的强度往往与观察到的患者ILTB程度呈反比，并且“耻辱回避”可能在某些宗教信徒更广泛地使用ILTB的倾向中起作用。
