Jeffrey S Levin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107529 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey S Levin |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey S |
| SOBRENOME | Levin |
| ASSINATURA | LEVIN J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Eastern Virginia Medical School |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 622 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Mental Health Services in Faith Communities
A small but growing literature recognizes the varied roles that clergy play in identifying and addressing mental health needs in their congregations. Although the role of the clergy in mental health services delivery has not been studied extensively, a few investigations have attempted a systematic examination of this area. This article examines the research, highlighting available information with regard to the process by which mental health nee…
Research on religion and mental health
The Religion-Health Connection
The volume and quality of research on what we term the religion-health connection have increased markedly in recent years. This interest in the complex relationships between religion and mental and physical health is being fueled by energetic and innovative research programs in several fields, including sociology, psychology, health behavior and health education, psychiatry, gerontology, and social epidemiology. This article has three main object…
Religion, Health, and Psychological Well-Being in Older Adults
This study examines the impact of religious involvement on health status and psychological well-being using data on older adults from three national probability surveys: the Myth and Reality of Aging (N = 2,797), the Quality of American Life (N = 1,209), and Americans' Changing Lives (N = 1,669) studies. Constructs are measured by single items and indices that vary across data sets. A proposed theoretical model specifies direct effects of religio…
Panel Analyses of Religious Involvement and Well-Being in African Americans
Jeffrey S. Levin, Robert Joseph Taylor, Panel Analyses of Religious Involvement and Well-Being in African Americans: Contemporaneous vs. Longitudinal Effects, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 695-709
Age Differences in Patterns and Correlates of the Frequency of Prayer
This study examines differences by age cohort in (a) the frequency of prayer, (b) racial and gender variation in prayer, and (c) religious and sociodemographic correlates of prayer. Analyses are conducted across four age cohorts (18-30, 31-40, 41-60, > or = 61) using data from the 1988 National Opinion Research Center (NORC) General Social Survey (N = 1,481). Findings reveal that prayer is frequently practiced at all ages, but more frequently in …
Quantitative Methods in Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
OBJECTIVES: This article summarizes the deliberations of the Quantitative Methods Working Group convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine. METHODS: The working group was charged with identifying methods of study design and data analysis that can be applied to empirical research on complementary and alternative medicine. This charge was broad and inclusive and addressed the evaluation …
Religious Attendance and Psychological Well-Being in Mexican Americans
This study examined the effects of religious attendance on three dimensions of psychological well-being using panel data from a three-generations study of Mexican Americans from Texas (N = 624). Well-being dimensions included life satisfaction (the 13-item LSIA), and respective seven- and four-item depressed and positive affect subscales of the CES-D. Two-wave path analyses revealed a cross-sectional association between religious attendance and l…
How religion influences morbidity and health
Religion in Aging and Health
Black and White Differences in Religious Participation
Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, Rukmalie Jayakody, Jeffrey S. Levin, Black and White Differences in Religious Participation: A Multisample Comparison, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 403-410
Religious Effects on Health Status and Life Satisfaction among Black Americans
This study tests a theoretical model linking religiosity, health status, and life satisfaction using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, a nationally representative sample of Blacks at least 18 years old. Findings reveal statistically significant effects for organizational religiosity on both health and life satisfaction, for nonorganizational religiosity on health, and for subjective religiosity on life satisfaction. Analyses of st…
Aging and the Religious Dimension
Figures and Tables Foreword by Harry R. Moody Introduction: A Human Science Perspective on Aging and the Religious Dimension by L. Eugene Thomas and Susan A. Eisenhandler Theoretical Perspectives Values, Psychosocial Development, and the Religious Dimension by L. Eugene Thomas From Loneliness to Solitude: Religious and Spiritual Journeys in Late Life by Barbara Payne and Susan McFadden Case Studies From Sacred to Secular: Memoir of a Midlife Tran…
A Multidimensional Measure of Religious Involvement for African Americans
This article describes the confirmation and validation of a multidimensional measure of religious involvement using data from the National Survey of Black Americans (N = 2,107). This model was developed through a multistep strategy of confirmatory factor analysis and structural-equation modeling. First, a three-dimensional factor structure comprising organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religiosity was confirmed for twelve religious …
Race and Gender Differences in Religiosity Among Older Adults
Using data from four national surveys, this article presents findings on racial and gender differences in religiosity among older adults. Surveys include the second Quality of American Life study, the Myth and Reality of Aging study, wave one of Americans' Changing Lives, and the 1987 sample of the General Social Survey. These four data sources collectively include a broad range of items which tap the constructs of organizational, nonorganization…
Religion in Aging and Health
Dimensions and Correlates of General Well-Being among Older Adults
This article examines dimensions and correlates of psychological well-being among older adults aged 55 and above using the General Well-Being (GWB) Scale with data ( N=2,931) collected in Kentucky in 1982. A shortened, 11-item version of the GWB is confirmed for use among older respondents and is found to comprise three correlated dimensions termed positive affect, enervation, and negative affect. Development of this scale involved exploratory an…
Religion and health
Antecedents and Dimensions of Religious Involvement Among Older Black Adults
This study proposed and tested a measurement model of religiosity among a sample of older (55 years of age and above) Black Americans. This model incorporates three correlated dimensions of religious involvement, termed organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religiosity. Findings indicate that the proposed model provides a good fit to the data, is preferable to other alternative models, and exhibits convergent validity with respect to …
Religious Involvement Among Hispanic and Black Mothers of Newborns
Findings are presented from an analysis of patterns and predictors of religious involvement among 135 Hispanic and 118 Black mothers interviewed postpartum as part of the Galveston Low Birthweight Survey in 1986. Three indicators of religious involvement were examined (religious attendance, frequency of prayer, and self-rated religiosity), and six predictors were included (age, education, marital status, prepartum parity, subjective health, and p…
The Factor Structure of the Pregnancy Anxiety Scale
This paper presents a measurement model of a ten-item scale of maternal anxiety during pregnancy. Using confirmatory factor analysis, its reliability and validity are examined in a hospital sample of mothers (N = 266) surveyed postpartum in Galveston, Texas. According to several indices of overall fit as well as individual parameter estimates, a latent internal structure of three interrelated dimensions is confirmed for the scale items. These fir…
Religion and medicine
Is religion therapeutically significant for hypertension
Religion, Type A behavior, and health
Is there a religious factor in health care utilization
A Multidimensional Measure of Religious Involvement for African Americans
This article describes the confirmation and validation of a multidimensional measure of religious involvement using data from the National Survey of Black Americans (N = 2,107). This model was developed through a multistep strategy of confirmatory factor analysis and structural-equation modeling. First, a three-dimensional factor structure comprising organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religiosity was confirmed for twelve religious …
Religion and health
Black and White Differences in Religious Participation
Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, Rukmalie Jayakody, Jeffrey S. Levin, Black and White Differences in Religious Participation: A Multisample Comparison, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 403-410
Mental Health Services in Faith Communities
A small but growing literature recognizes the varied roles that clergy play in identifying and addressing mental health needs in their congregations. Although the role of the clergy in mental health services delivery has not been studied extensively, a few investigations have attempted a systematic examination of this area. This article examines the research, highlighting available information with regard to the process by which mental health nee…
Religious Effects on Health Status and Life Satisfaction among Black Americans
This study tests a theoretical model linking religiosity, health status, and life satisfaction using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, a nationally representative sample of Blacks at least 18 years old. Findings reveal statistically significant effects for organizational religiosity on both health and life satisfaction, for nonorganizational religiosity on health, and for subjective religiosity on life satisfaction. Analyses of st…
Is frequent religious attendance really conducive to better health
How religion influences morbidity and health
Is religion therapeutically significant for hypertension
New age' healing in the U.S
Religion, Health, and Psychological Well-Being in Older Adults
This study examines the impact of religious involvement on health status and psychological well-being using data on older adults from three national probability surveys: the Myth and Reality of Aging (N = 2,797), the Quality of American Life (N = 1,209), and Americans' Changing Lives (N = 1,669) studies. Constructs are measured by single items and indices that vary across data sets. A proposed theoretical model specifies direct effects of religio…
Panel Analyses of Religious Involvement and Well-Being in African Americans
Jeffrey S. Levin, Robert Joseph Taylor, Panel Analyses of Religious Involvement and Well-Being in African Americans: Contemporaneous vs. Longitudinal Effects, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 695-709
Religious Attendance and Subjective Health
Epidemiologists often correlate religious attendance with a variety of health outcomes and claim that religion represents a protective factor with respect to health. However, these analyses are typically zero-order (i.e., uncontrolled) and thus fail to address the possibility that partialling out the effects of potential explanatory variables might reduce such associations to insignificance. Using a three-generations sample of Mexican American Ca…
Roles for the Black pastor in preventive medicine
Is self-care a social movement
Religious Attendance and Psychological Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older Mexican Americans
The relationship between religious attendance and psychological well-being is explored ir a sample of middle-aged and older Mexican American men and women. Religious attendance has significant zero-order effects on life satisfaction in older men and in middle-aged and older women. The associations remain significant in women, despite controlling for age, marital status, social class, and either of two indicators of health status. Previous work in…
The Factor Structure of the Pregnancy Anxiety Scale
This paper presents a measurement model of a ten-item scale of maternal anxiety during pregnancy. Using confirmatory factor analysis, its reliability and validity are examined in a hospital sample of mothers (N = 266) surveyed postpartum in Galveston, Texas. According to several indices of overall fit as well as individual parameter estimates, a latent internal structure of three interrelated dimensions is confirmed for the scale items. These fir…
Dimensions and Correlates of General Well-Being among Older Adults
This article examines dimensions and correlates of psychological well-being among older adults aged 55 and above using the General Well-Being (GWB) Scale with data ( N=2,931) collected in Kentucky in 1982. A shortened, 11-item version of the GWB is confirmed for use among older respondents and is found to comprise three correlated dimensions termed positive affect, enervation, and negative affect. Development of this scale involved exploratory an…
Social Networking as a Recruitment Strategy for Mexican American Families in Community Health Research
A multi-component strategy for recruiting families for community health research was tested among 65 Mexican American families in Galveston, Texas. This strategy, heavily relying on social networking techniques, resulted in an 88% recruitment rate. Most of the desired participants were obtained within five weeks. While the strategy is labor-intensive and may result in sampling bias, the high recruitment rate indicates that the strategy deserves f…
Is self-care a social movement
Religion and health in Mexican Americans
Life style — An emergent concept in the sociomedical sciences
Determinants of Physician Utilization Among Mexican-Americans
Determinants of physician utilization were examined using a three-generational sample of Mexican-Americans in San Antonio. A typical version of Andersen's causal behavioral model was moderately successful in predicting physician utilization in the middle and older generations and less successful in the younger generation. Consistent with the literature, need factors (health indicators) tended to affect utilization most directly. The authors also …
Socioeconomic status and infant mortality among Hispanics in a southwestern city
Recent investigations of infant mortality in the Southwest part of the US have shown that Spanish surname infant death rates are lower than might be expected from the relatively low socioeconomic standing of the Spanish surname population, a phenomenon that appears to be confined to the neonatal componont of the infant mortality rate. The relationship between socioeconomic status (ses) and infant mortality is examined overall and separately withi…
The Social Identity of the Chronic Schizophrenic
Using ethnographic research methods in a sample of institutionalized male schizophrenics, an emic typology of patient social indentities was derived. Interview and observational data yielded three general status classes comprising thirteen associated identities: killer, fighter, assaultive person, fag, rapist, doper, drunk, victim, con, nut, weirdo, snitch, and disoriented. An individual's social identity varied depending upon his current setting…
Religion and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scales
Roles for the Black pastor in preventive medicine
Social Networking as a Recruitment Strategy for Mexican American Families in Community Health Research
A multi-component strategy for recruiting families for community health research was tested among 65 Mexican American families in Galveston, Texas. This strategy, heavily relying on social networking techniques, resulted in an 88% recruitment rate. Most of the desired participants were obtained within five weeks. While the strategy is labor-intensive and may result in sampling bias, the high recruitment rate indicates that the strategy deserves f…
New age' healing in the U.S
Religious Attendance and Subjective Health
Epidemiologists often correlate religious attendance with a variety of health outcomes and claim that religion represents a protective factor with respect to health. However, these analyses are typically zero-order (i.e., uncontrolled) and thus fail to address the possibility that partialling out the effects of potential explanatory variables might reduce such associations to insignificance. Using a three-generations sample of Mexican American Ca…
Attitudes Toward Hospital Evangelism
The attitudes toward hospital evangelism of a random sample of Baptist ministers from Texas are analyzed, with special reference to significant differences between pastors and chaplains. Findings reveal that these two groups hold divergent views on the central mission of hospital evangelism. In general, Baptist pastors tend toward a more idealized view focused on soul-winning than Baptist chaplains, who seem somewhat more attentive to the special…
Is there a religious factor in health
Is frequent religious attendance really conducive to better health
Religion, Type A behavior, and health
Is there a religious factor in health care utilization
Religious Attendance and Psychological Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older Mexican Americans
The relationship between religious attendance and psychological well-being is explored ir a sample of middle-aged and older Mexican American men and women. Religious attendance has significant zero-order effects on life satisfaction in older men and in middle-aged and older women. The associations remain significant in women, despite controlling for age, marital status, social class, and either of two indicators of health status. Previous work in…
Is religion therapeutically significant for hypertension
Religion and medicine
Religious Involvement Among Hispanic and Black Mothers of Newborns
Findings are presented from an analysis of patterns and predictors of religious involvement among 135 Hispanic and 118 Black mothers interviewed postpartum as part of the Galveston Low Birthweight Survey in 1986. Three indicators of religious involvement were examined (religious attendance, frequency of prayer, and self-rated religiosity), and six predictors were included (age, education, marital status, prepartum parity, subjective health, and p…
The Factor Structure of the Pregnancy Anxiety Scale
This paper presents a measurement model of a ten-item scale of maternal anxiety during pregnancy. Using confirmatory factor analysis, its reliability and validity are examined in a hospital sample of mothers (N = 266) surveyed postpartum in Galveston, Texas. According to several indices of overall fit as well as individual parameter estimates, a latent internal structure of three interrelated dimensions is confirmed for the scale items. These fir…
Antecedents and Dimensions of Religious Involvement Among Older Black Adults
This study proposed and tested a measurement model of religiosity among a sample of older (55 years of age and above) Black Americans. This model incorporates three correlated dimensions of religious involvement, termed organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religiosity. Findings indicate that the proposed model provides a good fit to the data, is preferable to other alternative models, and exhibits convergent validity with respect to …
Race and Gender Differences in Religiosity Among Older Adults
Using data from four national surveys, this article presents findings on racial and gender differences in religiosity among older adults. Surveys include the second Quality of American Life study, the Myth and Reality of Aging study, wave one of Americans' Changing Lives, and the 1987 sample of the General Social Survey. These four data sources collectively include a broad range of items which tap the constructs of organizational, nonorganization…
Religion in Aging and Health
Dimensions and Correlates of General Well-Being among Older Adults
This article examines dimensions and correlates of psychological well-being among older adults aged 55 and above using the General Well-Being (GWB) Scale with data ( N=2,931) collected in Kentucky in 1982. A shortened, 11-item version of the GWB is confirmed for use among older respondents and is found to comprise three correlated dimensions termed positive affect, enervation, and negative affect. Development of this scale involved exploratory an…
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