Preferences for religious help-seeking
Racial and gender differences, interfaith intolerance, and defensive theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19505079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James W Crosby (Sam Houston State University, corresponding author), Jorge G Varela (0000-0003-2433-602X, Sam Houston State University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 196-209 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mental Health Religion & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-4676 • E-ISSN: 1469-9737 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13674676.2013.784900 |
| OpenAlex | W2068836746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
We examined the relation between preference for religious help-seeking and defensive theology, interfaith intolerance, spiritual conceptualisations of mental health problems, race/ethnicity, and gender in a predominantly Christian sample of 389 college students. MANOVA revealed significant main effects for race/ethnicity, with African American participants showing higher scores than Caucasians and Latinos/as across all main study variables. Follow-up ANOVA yielded main effects for race across all four variables and main effects for gender on spiritual conceptualisation of mental health problems and defensive theology. All race/ethnicity by gender interactions were nonsignificant. Preference for religious help-seeking was regressed in a hierarchical manner on race/ethnicity and gender, followed by interfaith intolerance, defensive theology, and spiritual conceptualisation of mental health problems. A statistically significant model explaining 46% of the variance emerged incorporating all variables except race.
Ethnic group · Mental health · Multivariate analysis of variance · Preference · Psychiatry · Religiosity · Sociology · Spirituality · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.44 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |