Preferences for religious help-seeking: racial and gender differences, interfaith intolerance, and defensive theology

We examined the relation between preference for religious help-seeking and defensive theology, interfaith intolerance, spiritual conceptualisations of mental health problems, race/ethnicity, and gender in a predominantly Christian sample of 389 college students. MANOVA revealed significant main effe...

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Auteurs: Crosby, James W. (Auteur) ; Varela, Jorge G. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor & Francis 2014
Dans: Mental health, religion & culture
Année: 2014, Volume: 17, Numéro: 2, Pages: 196-209
Sujets non-standardisés:B defensive theology
B Help-seeking
B Race
B Religion
B interfaith intolerance
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Résumé:We examined the relation between preference for religious help-seeking and defensive theology, interfaith intolerance, spiritual conceptualisations of mental health problems, race/ethnicity, and gender in a predominantly Christian sample of 389 college students. MANOVA revealed significant main effects for race/ethnicity, with African American participants showing higher scores than Caucasians and Latinos/as across all main study variables. Follow-up ANOVA yielded main effects for race across all four variables and main effects for gender on spiritual conceptualisation of mental health problems and defensive theology. All race/ethnicity by gender interactions were nonsignificant. Preference for religious help-seeking was regressed in a hierarchical manner on race/ethnicity and gender, followed by interfaith intolerance, defensive theology, and spiritual conceptualisation of mental health problems. A statistically significant model explaining 46% of the variance emerged incorporating all variables except race. A framework for understanding help-seeking preference is presented, followed by directions for future research.
ISSN:1469-9737
Contient:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2013.784900