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Title: Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression
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Upenieks, Laura Thomas, Patricia A. |
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Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression Journal of Health and Social Behavior published online (19 October 2021): DOI: 10.1177/00221465211046356. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00221465211046356 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Educational Attainment; Health, Mental/Psychological; Religion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the life course perspective, we assess the "resources" and "risks" to mental health associated with transitions in religious attendance between early life and midlife and how this process may be influenced by education. Drawing on over 35 years of prospective panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, baseline models suggest that stable, frequent attendance accumulated between adolescence to midlife and increases to frequent attendance by adulthood are associated with the lowest depression relative to consistent nonattenders. Individuals who declined in their religious participation report higher depression. Education conditioned this association, whereby declines in religious participation negatively impacted the health of those without a college degree more strongly and increases benefitted the well-educated to a greater extent. We combine insights from the life course perspective and work on social stratification and religiosity to interpret our results and offer directives for future research. |
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Upenieks, Laura and Patricia A. Thomas. "Gaining Faith, Losing Faith: How Education Shapes the Relationship between Religious Transitions and Later Depression." Journal of Health and Social Behavior published online (19 October 2021): DOI: 10.1177/00221465211046356.
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