TY - JOUR
T1 - Religious Involvement and Perceptions of Control
T2 - Evidence from the Miami-Dade Health Survey
AU - Pascoe, Anita E.
AU - Hill, Terrence D.
AU - Mossakowski, Krysia N.
AU - Johnson, Robert
PY - 2015/6/29
Y1 - 2015/6/29
N2 - This study uses data collected through the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (n = 444) to test whether religious involvement is associated with three distinct control beliefs. Regression results suggest that people who exhibit high levels of religious involvement tend to report higher levels of the sense of control, self-control, and the health locus of control than respondents who exhibit low levels of religious involvement. Although this study suggests that religious involvement can promote perceptions of control over one’s own life, this pattern is apparently concentrated at the high end of the distribution for religious involvement, indicating a threshold effect.
AB - This study uses data collected through the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (n = 444) to test whether religious involvement is associated with three distinct control beliefs. Regression results suggest that people who exhibit high levels of religious involvement tend to report higher levels of the sense of control, self-control, and the health locus of control than respondents who exhibit low levels of religious involvement. Although this study suggests that religious involvement can promote perceptions of control over one’s own life, this pattern is apparently concentrated at the high end of the distribution for religious involvement, indicating a threshold effect.
KW - Health locus of control
KW - Religious involvement
KW - Self-control
KW - Sense of control
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U2 - 10.1007/s10943-015-0081-y
DO - 10.1007/s10943-015-0081-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 26118384
AN - SCOPUS:84933543999
JO - Journal of Religion and Health
JF - Journal of Religion and Health
SN - 0022-4197
ER -