Is frequent religious attendance really conducive to better health
Toward an epidemiology of religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3645313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey S Levin (The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston), Harold Y Vanderpool (The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 589-600 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90063-3 |
| PMID | 3589753 |
| OpenAlex | W2043426135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 119 |
| References cited | 51 |
Attendance · Epistemology · Operationalization · Political science · Public health · Religiosity · Sociology · Dietary Effects on Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Epidemiology
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Positive Dying in Later Life
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Race, religious involvement and depressive symptomatology in a southeastern U.S. community
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Religiosity and Perceived Stress
Religious Practice as Social Exchange
Development of the Spiritual Transcendence Index
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Differences in Religious Attendance Among Disabled and Nondisabled Early and Early Midlife Adults
Religion and Health among Black and White Adults
Religious Involvement, Social Ties, and Social Support in a Southeastern Community
Parents, Religion and Perceived Social Coherence
“Take What You Like, and Leave the Rest”
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction among Black and White Americans
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Religion and Subjective Health Among Black and White Elders
Religious Involvement and Subjective Well-Being
Religion, social signaling, and health
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Shun or Support
Coping with Recent Life Events
Religious Predictors of Cigarette Smoking
The influence of religiosity on health
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Church Attendance, Religiosity, and Health
Relationship of Religiosity to Wellness and other Health-Related Behaviors and Outcomes
Relations of Intrinsic Spirituality with Health Status and Symptom Interference
Relations of Intrinsic Spirituality With Health Status and Symptom Interference
Stress, Religiosity, and Psychological Well-Being among Older Blacks
Religion, Health, and Psychological Well-Being in Older Adults
"Aging, Health, and the "Electronic Church
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Functional Limitations and Religious Service Attendance in Later Life
The Relation Between Intrinsic Religious Faith and Psychological Well-Being
Does Defensiveness Account for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Psychosocial Adjustment
Gender and health on the kibbutz
Surviving the Holidays
Neuropsychological evidence for dimensional schizotypy
The Religious Support Scale
Does religious observance promote health? mortality in secular vs religious kibbutzim in Israel
Frequent attendance at religious services and mortality over 28 years
Religion and mortality among the community-dwelling elderly
Validação brasileira do Instrumento de Qualidade de Vida/espiritualidade, religião e crenças pessoais
The relationship of spiritual maturity to level of object relations development and God image
Assessing Religious Faith in Medical Patients
Religion and Well‐Being in Aging Persons in an Aging Society
Changes in the SF-36 in 12 Months in a Clinical Sample of Disadvantaged Older Adults
Religious Participation and Substance Use Behaviors in a Canadian Sample of Homeless People
Age Changes in Religious Service Attendance in Mexican American Older Adults
Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
Religious Involvement Among Hispanic and Black Mothers of Newborns
People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes
Measures of social psychological attitudes
The scientific study of religion
The myth and reality of aging in America
The varieties of religious experience
Psychosocial Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly Poor
The Association of Social Relationships and Activities With Mortality
The Interpretation of Cultures
The Encyclopedia of philosophy
Religion and Society in Tension
Church attendance and health
Religion and Health
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Is religion therapeutically significant
Religious faith and adjustment to long-term hemodialysis
Religion and health in Mexican Americans
A sociological approach
Sociocultural Factors in the Epidemiology of Zulu Hypertension
Religiosity in 5-D
Life style — An emergent concept in the sociomedical sciences
Measurement
The prophylactic effect of religion on blood pressure levels among a sample of immigrants
Roles for the Black pastor in preventive medicine
The nature of prejudice
Religious practice and cardiovascular reactions during stress
Education and Mortality in Washington County, Maryland
Religious Attendance and Subjective Health
Religiosity, Well-Being, and Weltanschauung among the Elderly
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religiousness
The Development of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientations
| Unique citing works | 119 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,13 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 108 |