The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression

IF 3.6 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Dimitris I. Tsomokos, Robin I. M. Dunbar
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Abstract

It has recently been shown that interpersonal distrust predicts depressive symptoms in middle adolescence, and this finding has been interpreted in light of Social Safety Theory, which views distrust as an index of social threat. Here we hypothesize that religiousness provides social safety and may counteract the sense of social threat indexed by distrust. Religiousness should therefore act as a moderator between interpersonal distrust and depression. Using a nationally representative birth cohort from the UK, we provide evidence in favor of this hypothesis, even after controlling for stratum disadvantage and socioeconomic characteristics, sex, ethnicity, and multiple confounders on the level of the individual (BMI, chronic illness, cognitive ability, risk-taking, experiencing bullying, dietary habits, chronotype, physical activity and screen time), family context (frequency of eating meals together, maternal mental health), and neighborhood ecology (NO2 levels of air pollution).
宗教在青少年心理健康中的作用:信仰在不信任和抑郁之间的调节作用
最近有研究表明,人际不信任预示着青春期中期的抑郁症状,这一发现已被解释为社会安全理论,该理论将不信任视为社会威胁的一个指标。在这里,我们假设宗教提供了社会安全,并可能抵消由不信任指数的社会威胁感。因此,宗教信仰应该在人际不信任和抑郁之间起到调节作用。使用来自英国的具有全国代表性的出生队列,我们提供了支持这一假设的证据,即使在控制了阶层劣势和社会经济特征、性别、种族和个人层面的多种混杂因素(BMI、慢性疾病、认知能力、冒险精神、经历欺凌、饮食习惯、生物钟、身体活动和屏幕时间)、家庭背景(一起吃饭的频率、母亲的心理健康)、和社区生态(空气污染的二氧化氮水平)。
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