RT Article
T1 Religious involvement, helping others, and psychological well-being
JF Mental health, religion & culture
VO 17
IS 6
SP 629
OP 640
A1 Krause, Neal
A1 Hayward, R. David
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1838992537
AB This study has two goals. The first goal is to see if involvement in religion is associated with providing tangible support to family members and strangers. The second goal is to see if providing tangible support to family members and strangers is associated with well-being. A conceptual model, which was developed to address these issues, contains the following core relationships: (1) individuals who go to church more often will receive more spiritual support from coreligionists; (2) those who receive more spiritual support will provide more tangible assistance to family members and strangers; and (3) people who help family members and strangers will report greater life satisfaction and higher self-esteem. Findings from a nationwide survey support all but one of these relationships. More specifically, the results suggest that providing tangible support to family members is associated with greater well-being, but providing tangible support to strangers is not associated with well-being.
K1 providing support
K1 Psychological well-being
K1 Religion
DO 10.1080/13674676.2014.886674