Levin J S, Markides K S, Ray L A
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23501, USA.
Gerontologist. 1996 Aug;36(4):454-63. doi: 10.1093/geront/36.4.454.
This study examined the effects of religious attendance on three dimensions of psychological well-being using panel data from a three-generations study of Mexican Americans from Texas (N = 624). Well-being dimensions included life satisfaction (the 13-item LSIA), and respective seven- and four-item depressed and positive affect subscales of the CES-D. Two-wave path analyses revealed a cross-sectional association between religious attendance and life satisfaction in the two oldest generations, and a salutary longitudinal effect of religious attendance on subsequent depressed affect in the youngest generation. Findings for life satisfaction and depressed affect withstood controlling for health and five sociodemographic correlates of religious attendance and well-being.
本研究利用来自德克萨斯州墨西哥裔美国人三代研究的面板数据（N = 624），考察了宗教参与对心理健康三个维度的影响。心理健康维度包括生活满意度（13项生活满意度指数量表），以及CES-D抑郁和积极情感分量表中各自的7项和4项指标。两波路径分析显示，在最年长的两代人中，宗教参与与生活满意度之间存在横断面关联，且宗教参与对最年轻一代随后的抑郁情绪有有益的纵向影响。生活满意度和抑郁情绪的研究结果在控制了健康状况以及宗教参与和心理健康的五个社会人口学相关因素后依然成立。
