In the past few years social researchers have focused a considerable amount of attention on the relationships between religion and psychological well-being. The purpose of this paper is to examine further relationships among a sample of the Middletown population. More specifically, the paper explores gender differences which may be found in the impact of religion, as measured by church attendance and the presence of fundamentalist beliefs, on three indices of subjective psychological well-being. The findings, as indicated by a series of multiple regressions, demonstrate a significantly stronger relationship between religion and well-being for men than for women. Men who attended church frequently and who professed fundamentalist beliefs were more likely to report positive feelings of well-being. In most cases, religion had little or no effect on women's self-reported well-being. / Department of Sociology
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/183844 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Shaffer, Peggy Jo |
| Contributors | Ball State University. Dept. of Sociology., Bogg, Richard A. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | ii, 67 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
| Coverage | n-us-in |
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