Religious Involvement and Perceptions of Control: Evidence from the Miami-Dade Health Survey

Anita E. Pascoe; Terrence D. Hill; Krysia N. Mossakowski; Robert Johnson

doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0081-y

Religious Involvement and Perceptions of Control: Evidence from the Miami-Dade Health Survey

Anita E. Pascoe, Terrence D. Hill, Krysia N. Mossakowski, Robert Johnson

Sociology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Journal of Religion and Health
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-015-0081-y
State	Accepted/In press - Jun 29 2015

Keywords

Health locus of control
Religious involvement
Self-control
Sense of control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Religious studies
Medicine(all)
Nursing(all)

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Pascoe, A. E., Hill, T. D., Mossakowski, K. N., & Johnson, R. (Accepted/In press). Religious Involvement and Perceptions of Control: Evidence from the Miami-Dade Health Survey. Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-015-0081-y

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