Religious Well-Being and Suicide Ideation in Veterans - An Exploratory Study

Religious well-being is a multi-faceted construct posited as a protective factor against suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This cross-sectional, exploratory study used religious practice data collected from n = 5378 U.S. military veterans to create composite measures of private and public religious p...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kopacz, Marek S. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Morley, Sybil (BeteiligteR) ; Wozniak, Barbara (BeteiligteR) ; Simons, Kelsey (BeteiligteR) ; Bishop, Todd (BeteiligteR) ; Vance, C. (BeteiligteR)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science Business Media B. V. 2016
In: Pastoral psychology
Jahr: 2016, Band: 65, Heft: 4, Seiten: 481-491
RelBib Classification:AE Religionspsychologie
RG Seelsorge
weitere Schlagwörter:B suicide ideation
B Religious well-being
B Well-being
B Veterans
B Data Analysis
B Suicidal Ideation
B Religious Aspects
B LOGISTIC regression analysis
B Religious Practice
B CROSS-sectional method
B PSYCHOLOGY of veterans
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Zusammenfassung:Religious well-being is a multi-faceted construct posited as a protective factor against suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This cross-sectional, exploratory study used religious practice data collected from n = 5378 U.S. military veterans to create composite measures of private and public religious practice. These composite measures were subsequently used to determine the probability of being identified with a history of suicide ideation. Data analysis was conducted using logistic regression. Veterans with a history of suicide ideation made up 10.2 % ( n = 549) of the sample. Such veterans had significantly lower mean public and private religiosity scores compared to those without ideation. Differences between these two composite measures of religiosity were associated with a higher probability of being identified with a history of suicide ideation. The present study adds to the extant literature by presenting a framework for interpreting religious well-being in the context of religious practice. Quantitative differences in engagement between private and public practices may be indicative of a decreased sense of religious well-being, conferring less protection against suicidal behavior.
ISSN:1573-6679
Enthält:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0699-z