Table 3.
Health Outcomes Regressed on Sociodemographic Variables, Physical Functioning, and Multiple Dimensions of Religious Involvement (N = 678)*
| Dependent Variables | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depressive Symptoms | Self-reported General Health | Asthma/Arthritis | Hypertension/Diabetes | |||||
| b (SE) | Bsig | b (SE) | Bsig | b (SE) | Bsig | b (SE) | Bsig | |
| Education† | ||||||||
| Age‡ (25–34) | 0.014 (0.041) | 0.016 | −0.028 (0.106) | −0.012 | 0.014 (0.050) | 0.014 | 0.098 (0.045) | 0.099‖ |
| Age (35–44) | 0.011 (0.044) | 0.012 | −0.220 (0.111) | −0.093‖ | 0.056 (0.052) | 0.053 | 0.172 (0.047) | 0.172# |
| Age (45–64) | −0.092 (0.054) | −0.087 | −0.395 (0.138) | −0.139¶ | 0.223 (0.065) | 0.177¶ | 0.446 (0.058) | 0.370# |
| Age (65 and older) | −0.226 (0.068) | −0.178¶ | −0.446 (0.173) | −0.131# | 0.408 (0.081) | 0.269# | 0.523 (0.073) | 0.360# |
| Income | −0.089 (0.007) | 0.055 | 0.043 (0.017) | 0.103‖ | 0.001 (0.008) | 0.007 | −0.042 (0.007) | −0.023 |
| Never married§ | 0.068 (0.044) | 0.087 | −0.031 (0.111) | −0.015 | 0.076 (0.052) | −0.008 | 0.057 (0.047) | 0.063 |
| Living with partner | 0.162 (0.056) | 0.130‖ | −0.016 (0.143) | −0.005 | 0.072 (0.067) | 0.048 | 0.090 (0.061) | 0.064 |
| Widowed | 0.041 (0.059) | 0.031 | −0.065 (0.152) | −0.018 | −0.020 (0.071) | −0.013 | 0.100 (0.064) | 0.066 |
| Separated/divorced | 0.079 (0.046) | 0.078 | −0.292 (0.118) | −0.107‖ | 0.094 (0.055) | 0.078 | 0.027 (0.050) | 0.023 |
| Physical functioning | −0.044 (0.005) | −0.370# | 0.122 (0.012) | 0.382# | −0.033 (0.006) | −0.230# | −0.025 (0.005) | −0.186# |
| Church membership | −0.050 (0.016) | −0.120¶ | −0.468 (0.183) | −0.222‖ | 0.137 (0.086) | 0.147 | 0.191 (0.078) | 0.214‖ |
| Church attendance | −0.045 (0.018) | −0.232‖ | 0.128 (0.047) | 0.245¶ | −0.028 (0.022) | −0.120 | −0.037 (0.020) | −0.165 |
| Prayer | −0.050 (0.016) | −0.120¶ | 0.057 (0.042) | 0.051 | 0.031 (0.020) | 0.063 | 0.032 (0.018) | 0.067 |
| Faith | 0.037 (0.031) | 0.048 | 0.052 (0.078) | 0.025 | −0.078 (0.037) | −0.085‖ | −0.011 (0.033) | −0.012 |
| Total R2 | .212 | .287 | .295 | .295 | ||||
| Adjusted R2 | .191 | .268 | .277 | .277 | ||||
b = unstandardized Beta coefficient; Bsig = standardized Beta coefficient; SE = standard error.
*
This analysis was done using listwise deletion of missing data.
†
Education (using less than high school degree as referent group) not a significant predictor in any of the models.
‡
Age (using age 18–24 as referent group).
§
Marital status (using married as referent group).
‖
P ≤ .05.
¶
P ≤ .01.
#
P ≤ .001.