RT Article
T1 Do Religious Struggles Mediate the Association Between Neighborhood Disorder and Health in the United States?
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 63
IS 1
SP 202
OP 223
A1 Hill, Terrence D.
A1 Upenieks, Laura
A1 Wolff, Julia Katharina 1982-
A1 Cossman, Lynne
A1 Ellison, Christopher G. 1960-
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/188389879X
AB Over the past two decades, numerous studies have linked the subjective experience of neighborhood disorder (perceptions of crime, dilapidation and ambient strains) with poorer health. We test whether religious struggles (religious doubts and feeling abandoned or punished by God) mediate this association. Our counterfactual mediation analyses of data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS) (n = 1741) revealed consistent indirect effects of neighborhood disorder through religious struggles for anger, psychological distress, sleep disturbance, poorer self-rated health, and shorter subjective life expectancy. This study contributes to previous work by integrating the study of neighborhood context and religion.
K1 Anger
K1 Mental Health
K1 Neighborhood Disorder
K1 religious struggles
K1 Sleep
K1 Subjective life expectancy
K1 Health
DO 10.1007/s10943-023-01780-0