ArticleJournal of religion and health2018
Religious Attendance and Body Mass: An Examination of Variations by Race and Gender.
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- Religion and Pandemic Weight Gain: A Refuge from the Storm?Journal of psychology and theology · 2023Article
- Church Affirmation Moderates the Relationship Between Weight-Rejection-Sensitivity and Body Dissatisfaction in Young Adults in the USA.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Religious Service Attendance and Mortality among Adults in the United States with Chronic Kidney Disease.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter.Journal for the scientific study of religion · 2021Article
- Investigating Denominational and Church Attendance Differences in Obesity and Diabetes in Black Christian Men and Women.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Daily Religious Coping Buffers the Stress-Affect Relationship and Benefits Overall Metabolic Health in Older Adults.Psychology of religion and spirituality · 2020Article
- Partnering with Churches to Conduct a Wide-Scale Health Screening of an Urban, Segregated Community.Journal of community health · 2020Article
- Religiosity and Excess Weight Among African-American Adolescents: The Jackson Heart KIDS Study.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Religious Attendance and Biological Risk: A National Longitudinal Study of Older Adults.Journal of religion and health · 2019Article
- Places of Habits and Hearts: Church Attendance and Latino Immigrant Health Behaviors in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
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Abstract
Studies of the association between religious attendance and body mass have yielded mixed results. In this paper, we consider intersectional variations by race and gender to advance our understanding of these inconsistencies. We use data from the 2006-2008 Health and Retirement Study to examine the association between religious attendance and three indicators of body mass: overall body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio (n = 11,457). For White women, attendance is either protective or unrelated to body mass. For Black women, attendance is consistently associated with increased body mass. We find that religious attendance is not associated with body mass among the men.
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