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ArticleJournal of religion and health2025

Religious Service Attendance, Religious Discrimination, and Well-being in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadians.

Michaela Ritchie, David Speed

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Article in Journal of religion and health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Michaela RitchieDepartment of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Saint John, 100 Tucker Park Road, Saint John, E2L 4L5, Canada. michaela.ritchie@unb.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3220
David SpeedDepartment of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Saint John, 100 Tucker Park Road, Saint John, E2L 4L5, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The experience of discrimination is associated with worse health outcomes. Religious attendance associated with positive health is theorized to buffer the harmful effect of stressors (e.g., discrimination). Using data from the 2020 Canadian General Social Survey, we examined whether discrimination moderated the religious attendance-health relationship. The effects of religious attendance on well-being were modest and not uniformly linear. Additionally, the current results did not support that religious service attendance mitigated the adverse impacts of religious discrimination. The results highlight a need to revisit theoretical models of buffering to consider additional factors that influence the R/S-health relationship amid discrimination, including the nature, frequency, and intensity of discrimination experiences.

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DiscriminationReligion/spiritualityReligiosityReligious service attendance

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