title: Religious Involvement and Perceptions of Control: Evidence from the Miami-Dade Health Survey.
abstract: This study uses data collected through the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (n = 444) to test whether religious involvement is associated with three distinct control beliefs. Regression results suggest that people who exhibit high levels of religious involvement tend to report higher levels of the sense of control, self-control, and the health locus of control than respondents who exhibit low levels of religious involvement. Although this study suggests that religious involvement can promote perceptions of control over one's own life, this pattern is apparently concentrated at the high end of the distribution for religious involvement, indicating a threshold effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Anita E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Pascoe
authors.affiliation: School of Sociology, University of Arizona, Social Sciences Building, 1145 E. South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA. tdhill@email.arizona.edu.
authors.forename: Terrence D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Krysia N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Mossakowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D015438:Health Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012067:Religion; D000068356:Self-Control
keywords: Health locus of control; Religious involvement; Self-control; Sense of control