Mental Health, Religiosity, and Older Adults (HERO)

心理健康、宗教信仰和老年人 (HERO)

• 批准号: 7157927
• 负责人: James Francis Konopack
• 金额: $ 0.92万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2006-08-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7157927
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; body physical activity; caucasian American; clinical research; human middle age (35-64); human old age (65+); human subject; interview; locus of control; mathematical model; mental health epidemiology; monitoring device; predoctoral investigator; psychological aspect of aging; psychological models; quality of life; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; religion; self concept; social psychology; social support network

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cross-sectional evidence of a positive relationship between religiosity (i.e., religious attendance, beliefs, behaviors, and spiritual feelings) and mental health has been well documented in the literature to date. Although a variety of mechanisms have been discussed, few empirical evaluations of these relationships exist. Moreover, the research literature to date suffers from methodological shortcomings. Previous research has implicated social cognitive factors (i.e., social support and perceptions of control or self-efficacy) as potential mediators of a relationship between religiosity and mental health. Much of our work in recent years has supported a social cognitive model of the relationship between physical activity and well-being, and religiosity is hypothesized to affect mental health and global quality of life along similar pathways. In the course of my dissertation research, I hope to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms underlying a relationship between multidimensional religiosity and mental health outcomes by conducing a large-scale cross-sectional study of these constructs among older adults. This will involve employing a latent variable framework to test these relationships using structural equation modeling procedures.

描述（由申请人提供）：迄今为止，文献中已充分记录了宗教信仰（即宗教信仰、信仰、行为和精神感受）与心理健康之间存在积极关系的横截面证据。尽管已经讨论了多种机制，但对这些关系的实证评估很少。此外，迄今为止的研究文献还存在方法论缺陷。先前的研究表明，社会认知因素（即社会支持和控制感或自我效能感）是宗教信仰与心理健康之间关系的潜在中介因素。近年来，我们的大部分工作都支持身体活动与幸福之间关系的社会认知模型，并且假设宗教信仰会沿着类似的途径影响心理健康和全球生活质量。在我的论文研究过程中，我希望通过对老年人中的这些结构进行大规模横断面研究，阐明多维宗教信仰与心理健康结果之间关系的基本机制。这将涉及采用潜在变量框架来使用结构方程建模程序来测试这些关系。