RT Article
T1 Religious and Spiritual Practices: Association with Dispositional Optimism in an Underprivileged Population in Lascano, Uruguay
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 61
IS 1
SP 353
OP 372
A1 Cid, Alejandro
A1 Stokes, Charles E.
A1 Arrieta, Gonzalo
A1 Ponce de León, María Mercedes
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1798293463
AB Optimism seems to foster the ability to manage adverse situations better—a finding especially relevant for disadvantaged populations. Employing a unique sample from a small underprivileged village, we studied the association between religious/spiritual practices and dispositional optimism. The village belongs to a developing country that is, by far, the most secular country in Latin America; this makes it particularly interesting for exploring the role of religious/spiritual practices in this context. We found that these practices were positively associated with higher optimism, measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R): those who practice spirituality, score, on average, 14.4 percentage points higher on the LOT-R than those who did not. This association seems to be especially robust in the case of the poor and less educated: those with religious/spiritual practices score 20 percentage points higher on the LOT-R. Thus, the role that these practices may play in dispositional optimism in disadvantaged populations deserves more attention.
K1 Dispositional optimism
K1 Happiness
K1 Hope
K1 LOT-R
K1 Religion
DO 10.1007/s10943-021-01461-w