TARGET ARTICLE: Explaining the Relationships Between Religious Involvement and Health

By L. George, C. Ellison, D. Larson. 2002

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Who Benefits from Religion? (2011, background): “…of coronary disease, emphysema and cirrhosis (Comstock and Partridge 1972), lower blood pressure (Larson et al. 1989), and longer life expectancy (George et al. 2002; Hummer et al. 1999; Idler and Kasl 1997; Koenig 1997; Larson et al. 1997; Litwin 2007; Plante and Sherman 2001; Seybold and Hill…”
Religion and spirituality. Linkages to physical health. (2003, neutral): “" A more in-depth discussion of how the religion or spirituality–physical health association may be mediated by established risk/protective factors can be found in George, Ellison, and Larson (2002).”
Religion as Moderator of the Depression-Health Connection (2005, background): “…findings from short-term longitudinal studies (e.g., Goldman, Korenman, and Weinstein 1995; Idler and Kasl 1997) that negative stressors associated with aging (e.g., disability, poor physical health) do not have a significant detrimental effect on religious involvement (e.g., George et al. 2002).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “2.3 Discussion Attending religious services has been shown to be one of the strongest religious predictors of well-being (George et al. 2002).”
Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion? (2010, background): “, hypertension, physical mobility), and even to mortality risk (Ellison and Levin 1998; George et al. 2002; Smith et al. 2003).”