ArticleJournal of religion and health2016
Religious Participation is Associated with Increases in Religious Social Support in a National Longitudinal Study of African Americans.
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- A Multilevel Diabetes and CVD Risk Reduction Intervention in African American Churches: Project Faith Influencing Transformation (FIT) Feasibility and Outcomes.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Pooled it
- Black Caribbean Emerging Adults: A Systematic Review of Religion and Health.Journal of religion and health · 2020Pooled it
- Changes in social support over time in a faith-based physical activity intervention.Health education research · 2017Trial
- Demographic Variation in Social Support and Intimate Friend Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis.International journal of applied positive psychology · 2025Article
- Church-Based Emotional Support and Negative Interactions Among Older African Americans and Black Caribbeans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- "The Awesomeness and the Vastness of Who You Really Are:" A Culturally Distinct Framework for Understanding the Link Between Spirituality and Health for Black Sexual Minority Men.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Greater Social Functioning Associated With Lower Depressive Symptomatology Among Black Belt African Americans Enrolled in the Southeastern Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure Control Study.The primary care companion for CNS disorders · 2022Observational
- Take Me to (the Empty) Church? Social Networks, Loneliness and Religious Attendance in Young Polish Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Religious Attendance and the Social Support Trajectories of Older Mexican Americans.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2019Article
- Positive and Negative Religious Coping Styles as Prospective Predictors of Well-Being in African Americans.Psychology of religion and spirituality · 2018Article
- Role of religious social support in longitudinal relationships between religiosity and health-related outcomes in African Americans.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Article
- Adolescent religious attendance and spirituality-Are they associated with leisure-time choices?PloS one · 2018Article
- Religious Social Support, Discrimination, and Psychiatric Disorders among Black Adolescents.Race and social problems · 2017Article
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Abstract
This study reports on the association between religious beliefs and behaviors and the change in both general and religious social support using two waves of data from a national sample of African Americans. The Religion and Health in African Americans (RHIAA) study is a longitudinal telephone survey designed to examine relationships between various aspects of religious involvement and psychosocial factors over time. RHIAA participants were 3173 African American men (1281) and women (1892). A total of 1251 men (456) and women (795) participated in wave 2 of data collection. Baseline religious behaviors were associated with increased overall religious social support from baseline to wave 2 (p < .001) and with increased religious social support from baseline to wave 2 in each of the following religious social support subscales: emotional support received (p < .001), emotional support provided (p < .001), negative interaction (p < .001), and anticipated support (p < .001). Religious beliefs did not predict change in any type of support, and neither beliefs nor behaviors predicted change in general social support. African Americans who are active in faith communities showed increases in all types of religious social support, even the negative aspects, over a relatively modest longitudinal study period. This illustrates the strength of the church as a social network and the role that it plays in people's lives.
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