TY - JOUR
T1 - Religiosity, psychosocial factors, and well-being
T2 - An examination among a National Sample of Chileans
AU - Páez, Darío
AU - Martínez-Zelaya, Gonzalo
AU - Bilbao, Marian
AU - García, Felipe E.
AU - Torres-Vallejos, Javier
AU - Vargas, Salvador
AU - Sierralta, Edgardo
AU - da Costa, Silvia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Grant Number PSI2014-51923-P (to Darío Páez), the project POSTDOC_DICYT, Cod. 031660BR_POSTDOC, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH (to Gonzalo Martínez-Zelaya), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tec-nológica/Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico Grant 1151148 (to Marian Bilbao) and 11150172 (to Felipe E. García), and a Research Personnel Education and Training Program scholarship (PRE_UPV/EHU 2011-17-18) granted by the University of Basque Country (to Silvia da Costa).
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - In this study, we analyzed the association between public religiosity, private religiosity, and life satisfaction in a representative sample of the Chilean population. Religiosity was associated with low income and low socioeconomic status and with being older and female. These variables were negatively associated with satisfaction with life. However, attendance at collective religious rituals was associated with life satisfaction, while private religiosity was unrelated. These results support the view that it is the social aspect of religion that benefits well-being. Controlling for gender, age, and socioeconomic variables, public religiosity predicts life satisfaction. Participation in religious rituals was associated with high social support and affect balance (low negative and high positive affect). Mediational analyses that included all variables related to public religiosity (main predictor) and to life satisfaction (dependent variable) showed that attendance to religious rituals had a direct effect on well-being, and also a significant indirect effect on well-being through high social support and low negative affect. Results are discussed with respect to the role of public rituals in the Chilean collectivistic culture.
AB - In this study, we analyzed the association between public religiosity, private religiosity, and life satisfaction in a representative sample of the Chilean population. Religiosity was associated with low income and low socioeconomic status and with being older and female. These variables were negatively associated with satisfaction with life. However, attendance at collective religious rituals was associated with life satisfaction, while private religiosity was unrelated. These results support the view that it is the social aspect of religion that benefits well-being. Controlling for gender, age, and socioeconomic variables, public religiosity predicts life satisfaction. Participation in religious rituals was associated with high social support and affect balance (low negative and high positive affect). Mediational analyses that included all variables related to public religiosity (main predictor) and to life satisfaction (dependent variable) showed that attendance to religious rituals had a direct effect on well-being, and also a significant indirect effect on well-being through high social support and low negative affect. Results are discussed with respect to the role of public rituals in the Chilean collectivistic culture.
KW - Psychosocial factors
KW - Public rituals
KW - Religiosity
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85035008965&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/rel0000156
DO - 10.1037/rel0000156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035008965
SN - 1941-1022
VL - 10
SP - 138
EP - 145
JO - Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
JF - Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
IS - 2
ER -