Religious practices, beliefs, and mental health: variations across ethnicity
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Religious practices, beliefs, and mental health: variations across ethnicity.
OBJECTIVES We examined whether Black Americans and Hispanic Americans experienced greater mental health benefits from religious involvement than White Americans, and whether these benefits would be mediated through three psychosocial factors--social support, meaning, and forgiveness. METHODS Utilizing data from a probability sample of Chicago-based adults (n=3103), ethnicity-stratified multiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethnicity & Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1355-7858,1465-3419
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.655264