Religious involvement and readiness to confirm reported physical disability.
This investigation examines the influence of religious involvement on likelihood of verifying previously reported disability, net of current activity difficulty and self-rated health. It compares African American and white community-dwelling adults confirming (N = 348) and not confirming (N = 164) activity limitations. Logistic regressions show service attendance negatively associated with disability perception only among African Americans. For whites, use of beliefs in coping mitigates against confirmation of disability. Observed associations are conditioned by socioeconomic status and gender. These results underscore the importance of social context, as well as multidimensional religiosity, in understanding the health and disability implications of religiousness.
Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, One Main Street, N1067, Houston, TX, 77002-1014, USA, eliassena@uhd.edu.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult