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Multidimensional Profiles of Religiosity: Do They Matter for Gen-Xers’ Psychological and Familial Well-Being?

Although researchers have suggested that religiosity is a multidimensional construct, less is known about the long-term effects of religiosity profiles on Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) adults’ psychological and familial wellbeing over the life courses. Thus, the goal of this study is (1)...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Kent Jason, Hwang, Woosang, Kim, Jeung Hyun, Silverstein, Merril, Brown, Maria
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742096/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1116
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author Cheng, Kent Jason
Hwang, Woosang
Kim, Jeung Hyun
Silverstein, Merril
Brown, Maria
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description Although researchers have suggested that religiosity is a multidimensional construct, less is known about the long-term effects of religiosity profiles on Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) adults’ psychological and familial wellbeing over the life courses. Thus, the goal of this study is (1) to identify unobserved profiles of young-adult Gen-Xers’ religiosity based on religious attendance, religious intensity, spirituality, and religious ideology, (2) to investigate demographic factors that predict membership in these religiosity latent classes, and (3) to examine how these profiles of religiosity predict Gen-Xers’ psychological wellbeing (self-esteem, life satisfaction, and depression) and familial wellbeing (martial satisfaction, and affectual and associational solidarity toward their aging parents) in early and middle adulthood. We selected 462 Gen-Xers from the Longitudinal Study of Generation in the 2005 (mean age = 30.25) and the 2016 waves (mean age = 41.25). In terms of data analysis, the three-step latent class analysis was conducted. We identified four religiosity profiles among young-adult Gen-Xers: strongly religious, weakly religious, literalists but not religious, religious but not literalists. Less educated single Gen-Xers were more likely to be in the strongly religious class, and less likely to be in other classes. Gen-Xers in the strongly religious class reported high scores of psychological and familial wellbeing than those in other religiosity classes. Given that the religiosity of the U.S. population has declined substantially over the past few decades, our findings indicate that religiosity is an important resource for Gen-X adults’ psychological and familial wellbeing.
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spelling pubmed-77420962020-12-21 Multidimensional Profiles of Religiosity: Do They Matter for Gen-Xers’ Psychological and Familial Well-Being? Cheng, Kent Jason Hwang, Woosang Kim, Jeung Hyun Silverstein, Merril Brown, Maria Innov Aging Abstracts Although researchers have suggested that religiosity is a multidimensional construct, less is known about the long-term effects of religiosity profiles on Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) adults’ psychological and familial wellbeing over the life courses. Thus, the goal of this study is (1) to identify unobserved profiles of young-adult Gen-Xers’ religiosity based on religious attendance, religious intensity, spirituality, and religious ideology, (2) to investigate demographic factors that predict membership in these religiosity latent classes, and (3) to examine how these profiles of religiosity predict Gen-Xers’ psychological wellbeing (self-esteem, life satisfaction, and depression) and familial wellbeing (martial satisfaction, and affectual and associational solidarity toward their aging parents) in early and middle adulthood. We selected 462 Gen-Xers from the Longitudinal Study of Generation in the 2005 (mean age = 30.25) and the 2016 waves (mean age = 41.25). In terms of data analysis, the three-step latent class analysis was conducted. We identified four religiosity profiles among young-adult Gen-Xers: strongly religious, weakly religious, literalists but not religious, religious but not literalists. Less educated single Gen-Xers were more likely to be in the strongly religious class, and less likely to be in other classes. Gen-Xers in the strongly religious class reported high scores of psychological and familial wellbeing than those in other religiosity classes. Given that the religiosity of the U.S. population has declined substantially over the past few decades, our findings indicate that religiosity is an important resource for Gen-X adults’ psychological and familial wellbeing. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742096/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1116 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Multidimensional Profiles of Religiosity: Do They Matter for Gen-Xers’ Psychological and Familial Well-Being?
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title_sort multidimensional profiles of religiosity: do they matter for gen-xers’ psychological and familial well-being?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742096/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1116
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