The religious and the religious “nones”: attitudes towards religious practice mediate the relationship between religiousness and subjective mental health
Investigations into the relationship between religiousness and mental health have increasingly focused on nuances between atheists and agnostics (the religious “Nones”). The present study investigates links between religiousness and mental health, and impacts of religiousness on mental health treatm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 27, Issue: 5, Pages: 460-473 |
| Further subjects: | B
Structural equation modelling
B treatment attitudes B Mental Health B Mediation B Religiousness |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Investigations into the relationship between religiousness and mental health have increasingly focused on nuances between atheists and agnostics (the religious “Nones”). The present study investigates links between religiousness and mental health, and impacts of religiousness on mental health treatment attitudes. Data were analysed for 331 participants recruited online and through social media. Results revealed significantly different ratings of subjective mental health between religious and secular groups. Investigating treatment attitudes revealed significant differences in alternative treatment attitudes between groups; the religious group endorsed alternative treatment attitudes more than agnostics who in turn endorsed these attitudes more than atheists. No significant differences were observed in conventional treatment attitudes. Consequently, a partially latent structural regression model was proposed to investigate the potential mediating role of a latent Traditional Religious Practice factor on the relationship between religiousness and subjective mental health. Results revealed a full mediation effect. Limitations, conclusions, and future directions are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9737 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2024.2387851 |
