title: Time allocation, religious observance, and illness in Mayan horticulturalists.
abstract: Analysis of individual differences in religious observance in a Belizean community showed that the most religious (pastors and church workers) reported more illnesses, and that there was no tendency for the religiously observant to restrict their interactions to family or extended family. Instead, the most religiously observant tended to have community roles that widened their social contact: religion did not aid isolation - thus violating a key assumption of the parasite-stress theory of sociality.
authors.affiliation: The Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom. d.waynforth@uea.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Waynforth
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological