Marc A Musick
Biographic Data
| ID | 149572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc A Musick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc A |
| FAMILY NAME | Musick |
| SIGNATURE | MUSICK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1,303 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Much Obliged
Although compulsory, many people treat jury duty as voluntary. This article examines the conceptual and empirical links between participating in voluntary activity and stated willingness to serve on a jury. We also consider the role of engaging in other normative behaviors. Analysis of 1,304 US citizens in the Survey of Texas Adults showed an initial relationship between volunteering and willingness to serve, net of personal resources, prior jury…
Religious practices, beliefs, and mental health
The benefits of specific aspects of religious involvement vary across ethnicity. Caution is necessary in any effort to bring religion into the health domain. Our findings, if replicated, suggest that initiatives that facilitate a sense of purpose or forgiveness are likely to prove promising in improving mental health, regardless of race or ethnicity
Does Conservative Protestantism Moderate the Association Between Corporal Punishment and Child Outcomes
Using longitudinal data from a sample of 456 focal children in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study examined two research questions: (a) Does corporal punishment of young children (ages 2–4 at baseline) predict increases in levels of externalizing and internalizing problems over a 5-year study period? (b) Does the religion of the mother—specifically, her conservative Protestant affiliation and conservative beliefs abo…
Depression, Anxiety, and Religious Life
We examine several potential mechanisms linking religious involvement to depressive symptoms, major depression, and anxiety. Logistic and OLS regression estimations test five sets of potential psychosocial religion mediators: perceived attitudes toward and motivations for attendance; positive and negative religious coping; religious attitudes, beliefs, and spirituality; congregational support and criticism; and interpersonal and self-forgiveness.…
An examination of the relationship between multiple dimensions of religiosity, blood pressure, and hypertension
The association of forgiveness and 12-month prevalence of major depressive episode
Research suggests that gender differences in interpersonal orientations may differentially predispose women and men to depression. While women tend to be more interdependent and show interpersonal depressive styles, men are more independent and show self-critical styles. Forgiveness is one religious/spiritual, interpersonal variable that has received very little attention in the literature on depression. Hence, the purpose of this study was to ex…
Balm in Gilead
Although a long tradition of theoretical and sociohistorical analysis has suggested that religious practices and values help African Americans in coping with the distressing sequelae of racism and discrimination, few studies have examined this issue with systematic, quantitative, empirical data. Our work contributes to the literature by: (a) outlining a series of arguments regarding the potential significance of multiple aspects of religious invo…
Volunteers
This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about who volunteers and why, and probably a bit more besides. Well, actually, it tells you everything that is known or measured about why different people volunteer, whilst also highlighting the many remaining questions where data has yet to be collected. With over five hundred pages of text crammed full of survey data and references to existing studies (plus another 150 or so pages of appen…
Religious attendance and the health behaviors of Texas adults
Attendance at Religious Services and Mortality in a National Sample
Research and theory increasingly suggest that attendance at religious services is protective against premature mortality. However, prior studies are limited and do not extensively explore potential explanations for the relationship, especially in terms of religious beliefs and behaviors associated with service attendance. This study estimates the impact of service attendance on mortality in a national probability sample and provides the most exte…
Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research
Progress in studying the relationship between religion and health has been hampered by the absence of an adequate measure of religiousness and spirituality. This article reports on the conceptual and empirical development of an instrument to measure religiousness and spirituality, intended explicitly for studies of health. It is multidimensional to allow investigation of multiple possible mechanisms of effect, brief enough to be included in clini…
Age-Related Declines in Activity Level
The study finds some evidence to support the idea that older adults withdraw from social activities such as religious involvement when faced with declining health. In contrast, levels of religious media use remain stable following the onset of one or more new chronic conditions
Volunteering and depression
Doing Well by Doing Good
The popular assumption that volunteer work helps people get good jobs is tested using panel data from the Young Women's Module of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. Volunteering while a young adult has no effect on whether women will be working for pay eighteen years later, but it has a positive effect on the occupational status of those who are. Length of time spent in the labor force between early adulthood and middle …
Doing Well by Doing Good
The popular assumption that volunteer work helps people get good jobs is tested using panel data from the Young Women's Module of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. Volunteering while a young adult has no effect on whether women will be working for pay eighteen years later, but it has a positive effect on the occupational status of those who are. Length of time spent in the labor force between early adulthood and middle …
Forgiveness and Health
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans
Journal Article Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans Get access Marc A. Musick Marc A. Musick * The University of Texas at Austin * Direct all correspondence to Marc A. Musick at the Population Research Center, 1800 Main Building, The University of Texas, Ausin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 3, Fall…
Race and Formal Volunteering
Despite recent gains in educational and occupational achievement, black Americans are still worse off than whites across a broad range of quality-of-life indicators. In this article, we analyze survey data on volunteering which show that whites volunteer more than blacks. We ask how much of this difference is due to the way human capital is distributed in the population. We then develop a resource theory of volunteering that acknowledges that, be…
The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer
John Wilson, Marc Musick, The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 62, No. 4, Amateurs in Public Service: Volunteering, Service-Learning, and Community Service (Autumn, 1999), pp. 141-168
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
The African American Minister as a Source of Help for Serious Personal Crises
Using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, this article explores the role of African American ministers in the help seeking of African Americans for serious emotional problems. The authors explore which demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors are related to contacting Black clergy for help, whether certain types of personal problems increase the likelihood of clergy contact, and whether those who go to ministers are also…
"Aging, Health, and the "Electronic Church
We tested whether elders substitute religious media use for church attendance when health declines (using multidimensional disengagement theory) with data from a multiracial, population-based sample in the Bible Belt (N = 2,971). In adjusted models, 3-year declines in functional status were significantly associated with concurrent reduction in frequency of church attendance but not with any change in rates of religious media (TV/radio) use. Age-r…
Religious Activity and Depression among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons with Cancer
The analyses lend support to the hypothesis that religious activity is a strong predictor of depression in elderly adults with cancer. This finding, however, is not as strong as we had anticipated
Work, Race and the American Dream
Belief in ultimate justice, that effort will be rewarded, is an important tenet of the American dream. It functions as a compensation myth for the inevitable failure of a promise of opportunity for all. Previous studies depending largely on class theories to explain variations in subscription to this belief find it to be inversely related to class position. Yet these studies fail to test the theory properly, because they assume that lack of contr…
Who Cares? Toward an Integrated Theory of Volunteer Work
The authors construct an integrated theory of formal and informal volunteer work based on the premises that volunteer work is (1) productive work that requires human capital, (2) collective behavior that requires social capital, and (3) ethically guided work that requires cultural capital. Using education, income and functional health to measure human capital, number of children in the household and informal social interaction to measure social c…
Volunteering and depression
Volunteers
This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about who volunteers and why, and probably a bit more besides. Well, actually, it tells you everything that is known or measured about why different people volunteer, whilst also highlighting the many remaining questions where data has yet to be collected. With over five hundred pages of text crammed full of survey data and references to existing studies (plus another 150 or so pages of appen…
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
Race and Formal Volunteering
Despite recent gains in educational and occupational achievement, black Americans are still worse off than whites across a broad range of quality-of-life indicators. In this article, we analyze survey data on volunteering which show that whites volunteer more than blacks. We ask how much of this difference is due to the way human capital is distributed in the population. We then develop a resource theory of volunteering that acknowledges that, be…
Balm in Gilead
Although a long tradition of theoretical and sociohistorical analysis has suggested that religious practices and values help African Americans in coping with the distressing sequelae of racism and discrimination, few studies have examined this issue with systematic, quantitative, empirical data. Our work contributes to the literature by: (a) outlining a series of arguments regarding the potential significance of multiple aspects of religious invo…
Conservative Protestantism and Public Opinion toward Science
Attendance at Religious Services and Mortality in a National Sample
Research and theory increasingly suggest that attendance at religious services is protective against premature mortality. However, prior studies are limited and do not extensively explore potential explanations for the relationship, especially in terms of religious beliefs and behaviors associated with service attendance. This study estimates the impact of service attendance on mortality in a national probability sample and provides the most exte…
Southern Intolerance
For many years, social scientists have reported that southerners express lower levels of tolerance vis-à-vis unpopular groups than nonsoutherners. Some researchers have suggested that these widely observed regional variations are due to the prominence of fundamentalist Protestantism in the South. In analyses of data from the 1988 General Social Survey, however, this hypothesis receives only partial support. Substantial regional differences in tol…
Religious Activity and Depression among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons with Cancer
The analyses lend support to the hypothesis that religious activity is a strong predictor of depression in elderly adults with cancer. This finding, however, is not as strong as we had anticipated
Religious Switching for Marriage Reasons
Religious mobility (“switching”) takes place across a terrain defined by the spaces between religious denominations, where distance is usually measured by divergent beliefs and social status differences. The odds of moving from one denomination to another are determined by the distance between them, i.e., how far apart they are theologically and socially. However, many Americans switch religions to harmonize their marriage. The question arises as…
Religion and Marital Dependency
Les statistiques de la National survey of families and households sont utilisees afin de determiner l'impact de la religion sur la dependance matrimoniale. Les epoux qui appartiennent aux denominations attachant une plus grande valeur au mariage et a la stabilite matrimoniale doivent temoigner d'une plus grande dependance ainsi que ceux qui sont engages dans la vie de l'Eglise ou qui appartiennent a la meme denomination. L'affiliation religieuse …
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans
Journal Article Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans Get access Marc A. Musick Marc A. Musick * The University of Texas at Austin * Direct all correspondence to Marc A. Musick at the Population Research Center, 1800 Main Building, The University of Texas, Ausin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 3, Fall…
Religion and Subjective Health Among Black and White Elders
This study examines the effect of religion on subjective health in a sample of Black and White elderly adults living in a southern community of the United States. The analyses lead to several conclusions. First, the findings indicate that future analyses examining the link between religion and subjective health should incorporate measures of functional health. Second, the differences found between Blacks and Whites warrant separation by race in f…
Depression, Anxiety, and Religious Life
We examine several potential mechanisms linking religious involvement to depressive symptoms, major depression, and anxiety. Logistic and OLS regression estimations test five sets of potential psychosocial religion mediators: perceived attitudes toward and motivations for attendance; positive and negative religious coping; religious attitudes, beliefs, and spirituality; congregational support and criticism; and interpersonal and self-forgiveness.…
Doing Well by Doing Good
The popular assumption that volunteer work helps people get good jobs is tested using panel data from the Young Women's Module of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. Volunteering while a young adult has no effect on whether women will be working for pay eighteen years later, but it has a positive effect on the occupational status of those who are. Length of time spent in the labor force between early adulthood and middle …
Work and Volunteering
The impact of work on social life is a major concern of sociologists. Marx and Durkheim both believed that jobs have consequences for workers' lives outside the workplace, and subsequent research by Kohn, Wilensky, and others confirms that complex and self-directed jobs encourage social participation. We use this “spillover” theory to predict volunteering among respondents to the Americans' Changing Lives survey (1986–89). Occupational self-direc…
Does Conservative Protestantism Moderate the Association Between Corporal Punishment and Child Outcomes
Using longitudinal data from a sample of 456 focal children in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study examined two research questions: (a) Does corporal punishment of young children (ages 2–4 at baseline) predict increases in levels of externalizing and internalizing problems over a 5-year study period? (b) Does the religion of the mother—specifically, her conservative Protestant affiliation and conservative beliefs abo…
An examination of the relationship between multiple dimensions of religiosity, blood pressure, and hypertension
Age-Related Declines in Activity Level
The study finds some evidence to support the idea that older adults withdraw from social activities such as religious involvement when faced with declining health. In contrast, levels of religious media use remain stable following the onset of one or more new chronic conditions
Religious practices, beliefs, and mental health
The benefits of specific aspects of religious involvement vary across ethnicity. Caution is necessary in any effort to bring religion into the health domain. Our findings, if replicated, suggest that initiatives that facilitate a sense of purpose or forgiveness are likely to prove promising in improving mental health, regardless of race or ethnicity
"Aging, Health, and the "Electronic Church
We tested whether elders substitute religious media use for church attendance when health declines (using multidimensional disengagement theory) with data from a multiracial, population-based sample in the Bible Belt (N = 2,971). In adjusted models, 3-year declines in functional status were significantly associated with concurrent reduction in frequency of church attendance but not with any change in rates of religious media (TV/radio) use. Age-r…
Much Obliged
Although compulsory, many people treat jury duty as voluntary. This article examines the conceptual and empirical links between participating in voluntary activity and stated willingness to serve on a jury. We also consider the role of engaging in other normative behaviors. Analysis of 1,304 US citizens in the Survey of Texas Adults showed an initial relationship between volunteering and willingness to serve, net of personal resources, prior jury…
Personal Autonomy in Religion and Marriage; Is There a Link
Southern Intolerance
For many years, social scientists have reported that southerners express lower levels of tolerance vis-à-vis unpopular groups than nonsoutherners. Some researchers have suggested that these widely observed regional variations are due to the prominence of fundamentalist Protestantism in the South. In analyses of data from the 1988 General Social Survey, however, this hypothesis receives only partial support. Substantial regional differences in tol…
Personal Autonomy in Religion and Marriage; Is There a Link
Conservative Protestantism and Public Opinion toward Science
Religious Switching for Marriage Reasons
Religious mobility (“switching”) takes place across a terrain defined by the spaces between religious denominations, where distance is usually measured by divergent beliefs and social status differences. The odds of moving from one denomination to another are determined by the distance between them, i.e., how far apart they are theologically and socially. However, many Americans switch religions to harmonize their marriage. The question arises as…
Religion and Subjective Health Among Black and White Elders
This study examines the effect of religion on subjective health in a sample of Black and White elderly adults living in a southern community of the United States. The analyses lead to several conclusions. First, the findings indicate that future analyses examining the link between religion and subjective health should incorporate measures of functional health. Second, the differences found between Blacks and Whites warrant separation by race in f…
Religion and Marital Dependency
Les statistiques de la National survey of families and households sont utilisees afin de determiner l'impact de la religion sur la dependance matrimoniale. Les epoux qui appartiennent aux denominations attachant une plus grande valeur au mariage et a la stabilite matrimoniale doivent temoigner d'une plus grande dependance ainsi que ceux qui sont engages dans la vie de l'Eglise ou qui appartiennent a la meme denomination. L'affiliation religieuse …
Who Cares? Toward an Integrated Theory of Volunteer Work
The authors construct an integrated theory of formal and informal volunteer work based on the premises that volunteer work is (1) productive work that requires human capital, (2) collective behavior that requires social capital, and (3) ethically guided work that requires cultural capital. Using education, income and functional health to measure human capital, number of children in the household and informal social interaction to measure social c…
Work and Volunteering
The impact of work on social life is a major concern of sociologists. Marx and Durkheim both believed that jobs have consequences for workers' lives outside the workplace, and subsequent research by Kohn, Wilensky, and others confirms that complex and self-directed jobs encourage social participation. We use this “spillover” theory to predict volunteering among respondents to the Americans' Changing Lives survey (1986–89). Occupational self-direc…
The African American Minister as a Source of Help for Serious Personal Crises
Using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, this article explores the role of African American ministers in the help seeking of African Americans for serious emotional problems. The authors explore which demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors are related to contacting Black clergy for help, whether certain types of personal problems increase the likelihood of clergy contact, and whether those who go to ministers are also…
"Aging, Health, and the "Electronic Church
We tested whether elders substitute religious media use for church attendance when health declines (using multidimensional disengagement theory) with data from a multiracial, population-based sample in the Bible Belt (N = 2,971). In adjusted models, 3-year declines in functional status were significantly associated with concurrent reduction in frequency of church attendance but not with any change in rates of religious media (TV/radio) use. Age-r…
Religious Activity and Depression among Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons with Cancer
The analyses lend support to the hypothesis that religious activity is a strong predictor of depression in elderly adults with cancer. This finding, however, is not as strong as we had anticipated
Work, Race and the American Dream
Belief in ultimate justice, that effort will be rewarded, is an important tenet of the American dream. It functions as a compensation myth for the inevitable failure of a promise of opportunity for all. Previous studies depending largely on class theories to explain variations in subscription to this belief find it to be inversely related to class position. Yet these studies fail to test the theory properly, because they assume that lack of contr…
The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer
John Wilson, Marc Musick, The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 62, No. 4, Amateurs in Public Service: Volunteering, Service-Learning, and Community Service (Autumn, 1999), pp. 141-168
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans
Journal Article Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans Get access Marc A. Musick Marc A. Musick * The University of Texas at Austin * Direct all correspondence to Marc A. Musick at the Population Research Center, 1800 Main Building, The University of Texas, Ausin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 3, Fall…
Race and Formal Volunteering
Despite recent gains in educational and occupational achievement, black Americans are still worse off than whites across a broad range of quality-of-life indicators. In this article, we analyze survey data on volunteering which show that whites volunteer more than blacks. We ask how much of this difference is due to the way human capital is distributed in the population. We then develop a resource theory of volunteering that acknowledges that, be…
Forgiveness and Health
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research
Progress in studying the relationship between religion and health has been hampered by the absence of an adequate measure of religiousness and spirituality. This article reports on the conceptual and empirical development of an instrument to measure religiousness and spirituality, intended explicitly for studies of health. It is multidimensional to allow investigation of multiple possible mechanisms of effect, brief enough to be included in clini…
Age-Related Declines in Activity Level
The study finds some evidence to support the idea that older adults withdraw from social activities such as religious involvement when faced with declining health. In contrast, levels of religious media use remain stable following the onset of one or more new chronic conditions
Volunteering and depression
Doing Well by Doing Good
The popular assumption that volunteer work helps people get good jobs is tested using panel data from the Young Women's Module of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. Volunteering while a young adult has no effect on whether women will be working for pay eighteen years later, but it has a positive effect on the occupational status of those who are. Length of time spent in the labor force between early adulthood and middle …
Doing Well by Doing Good
The popular assumption that volunteer work helps people get good jobs is tested using panel data from the Young Women's Module of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. Volunteering while a young adult has no effect on whether women will be working for pay eighteen years later, but it has a positive effect on the occupational status of those who are. Length of time spent in the labor force between early adulthood and middle …
Attendance at Religious Services and Mortality in a National Sample
Research and theory increasingly suggest that attendance at religious services is protective against premature mortality. However, prior studies are limited and do not extensively explore potential explanations for the relationship, especially in terms of religious beliefs and behaviors associated with service attendance. This study estimates the impact of service attendance on mortality in a national probability sample and provides the most exte…
Religious attendance and the health behaviors of Texas adults
Psychology (29 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works)