Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults
- 21 October 2010
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging
- Vol. 33 (1), 51-83
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027510383584
Abstract
This research examines the association of religious participation with mortality using a longitudinal data set collected from 9,017 oldest-old aged 85+ and 6,956 younger elders aged 65 to 84 in China in 2002 and 2005 and hazard models. Results show that adjusted for demographics, family/ social support, and health practices, risk of dying was 24% ( p < 0.001) and 12% ( p < 0.01) lower among frequent and infrequent religious participants than among nonparticipants for all elders aged 65+. After baseline health was adjusted, the corresponding risk of dying declined to 21% ( p < 0.001) and 6% (not significant), respectively. The authors also conducted hazard models analysis for men versus women and for young-old versus oldest-old, respectively, adjusted for single-year age; the authors found that gender differentials of association of religious participation with mortality among all elderly aged 65+ were not significant; association among young-old men was significantly stronger than among oldest-old men, but no such significant young-old versus oldest-old differentials in women were found.Keywords
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