Table 3.

Effects of interactions between ill-health constructs and selected factors on subsequent religiosity

Predictors (All assessed at wave one, unless otherwise indicated)	Public Religiosity (Wave 2)		Subjective Religiosity (Wave 2)
	Whites	Blacks	Whites	Blacks
Chronic Illness × Age	−.023	.108	−.038	.124
^a Chronic Illness × Age	−.025	−.071	.026	−.026
Impaired Functioning × Age	−.062	.050	.052	.072
^a Impaired Functioning × Age	−.047	−.080	.002	−.075
Chronic Illness × Public Religiosity	−.005	−.040	—	—
^a Chronic Illness × Public Religiosity	.002	.008	—	—
Chronic Illness × Subjective Religiosity	—	—	−.027?	−.089*
^a Chronic Illness × Subjective Religiosity	—	—	−.010	.031
Impaired Functioning × Public Religiosity	−.013	−.020	—	—
^a Impaired Functioning × Public Religiosity	.004	−.025	—	—
Impaired Functioning × Subjective Religiosity	—	—	−.033***	−.058*
^a Impaired Functioning × Subjective Religiosity	—	—	−.008	−.013

n = 874 (blacks)/1,906 (whites)

^*p < .05,

^**<.01,

^***p < .001

To forestall multicollinearity, these interactions are added to the equations predicting second-wave public and subjective religiosity alternately rather than simultaneously. None of these interaction effects differs significantly across races: Chi-Square differentials associated with constraining each of these effects to be equal across races are uniformly nonsignificant

^aThe “^” character denotes changes in the given ill-health construct between waves one and two (i.e., wave 2 level minus wave 1 level)