Ellison C G, Levin J S
Department of Sociology, University of Texas 78712-1088, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 1998 Dec;25(6):700-20. doi: 10.1177/109019819802500603.
The volume and quality of research on what we term the religion-health connection have increased markedly in recent years. This interest in the complex relationships between religion and mental and physical health is being fueled by energetic and innovative research programs in several fields, including sociology, psychology, health behavior and health education, psychiatry, gerontology, and social epidemiology. This article has three main objectives: (1) to briefly review the medical and epidemiologic research on religious factors and both physical health and mental health; (2) to identify the most promising explanatory mechanisms for religious effects on health, giving particular attention to the relationships between religious factors and the central constructs of the life stress paradigm, which guides most current social and behavioral research on health outcomes; and (3) to critique previous work on religion and health, pointing out limitations and promising new research directions.
近年来，我们所谓的宗教与健康关系的研究数量和质量都显著增加。包括社会学、心理学、健康行为与健康教育、精神病学、老年医学和社会流行病学在内的多个领域，充满活力且富有创新性的研究项目推动了人们对宗教与身心健康之间复杂关系的兴趣。本文有三个主要目标：（1）简要回顾关于宗教因素与身心健康的医学和流行病学研究；（2）确定宗教对健康影响最有前景的解释机制，特别关注宗教因素与生活压力范式核心概念之间的关系，该范式指导着当前大多数关于健康结果的社会和行为研究；（3）对先前关于宗教与健康的研究进行批判，指出局限性并提出有前景的新研究方向。
