BIOMAT Database Logo BIOMAT Database Logo

Religious attendance and psychological well-being in Mexican Americans: a panel analysis of three-generations data. 1996

J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23501, USA.

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.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D010549 Personal Satisfaction The individual's experience of a sense of fulfillment of a need or want and the quality or state of being satisfied. Life Satisfaction,Satisfaction,Life Satisfactions,Satisfaction, Life,Satisfaction, Personal,Satisfactions, Life
D010552 Personality Assessment The determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. Articles concerning personality measurement are considered to be within scope of this term. Assessment, Personality,Assessments, Personality,Personality Assessments
D012069 Religion and Psychology The interrelationship of psychology and religion. Psychology and Religion,Psychology, Religion,Religion, Psychology
D003863 Depression Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER present in neurotic and psychotic disorders. Depressive Symptoms,Emotional Depression,Depression, Emotional,Depressive Symptom,Symptom, Depressive
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000069 Acculturation Process of cultural change in which one group or members of a group assimilate various cultural patterns from another. Assimilation, Cultural,Cultural Assimilation
D000223 Adaptation, Psychological A state of harmony between internal needs and external demands and the processes used in achieving this condition. (From APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed). Behavior, Adaptive,Healthy Adaptation,Positive Adaptation,Psychological Recovery,Adaptation, Psychologic,Adjustment,Psychological Adaptation,Adaptation, Healthy,Adaptation, Positive,Adaptive Behavior,Adaptive Behaviors,Healthy Adaptations,Positive Adaptations,Psychologic Adaptation,Psychological Recoveries,Recovery, Psychological

Related Publications

J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Intergenerational solidarity and psychological well-being among older Mexican Americans: a three-generations study.
May 1985, Journal of gerontology,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Role of religious attendance and identity conflict in psychological well-being.
September 2013, Journal of religion and health,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Family, religious attendance, and trajectories of psychological well-being among youth.
December 2014, Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43),
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Religious attendance and cognitive functioning among older Mexican Americans.
January 2006, The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Religious Attendance and the Social Support Trajectories of Older Mexican Americans.
December 2019, Journal of cross-cultural gerontology,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Aging, religious doubt, and psychological well-being.
October 1999, The Gerontologist,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Perceptions of intergenerational relations and psychological well-being among elderly Mexican Americans: a causal model.
January 1981, International journal of aging & human development,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Religious service attendance, health behaviors and well-being-an outcome-wide longitudinal analysis.
December 2019, European journal of public health,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Religious coping and caregiver well-being in Mexican-American families.
January 2009, Aging & mental health,
J S Levin, and K S Markides, and L A Ray
Religious attendance and mortality: an 8-year follow-up of older Mexican Americans.
March 2005, The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences,
Copied contents to your clipboard!