title: Black-White variations in the lagged reciprocal relationship between religiosity and perceived control.
abstract: This national longitudinal data-based multi-population LISREL study, the most comprehensive assessment to date of racial variations in the (in)congruity between religiosity and perceived control, gauges variation among Black and White Americans in the lagged reciprocal relationship between religiosity dimensions and mastery. Racial variation in thereciprocalreligiosity-perceived control relationship has hitherto gone un-addressed. Prior investigations have also typically utilised cross-sectional samples - often from regional or age-specific populations. The observedpublicreligiosity-mastery relationship over time exhibits signs ofmutual reinforcementamong Blacks: public religiosity enhances Blacks' subsequent mastery, while prior mastery borderline-significantly enhances their public religiosity. Thesubjectivereligiosity-mastery relationship among Whites evinces a marginallycountervailingpattern: Subjective religiositydiminishesWhites' mastery, while mastery borderline-significantly enhances their subjective religiosity. The inordinately positive public religiosity-effect on Blacks' mastery notably constitutes solid support for the "resource compensation" perspective on the impact of religiosity on mastery across dominant and subordinate groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Oates
keywords: mastery; mental health; race; religiosity; stress and coping
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