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Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults.

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Zeng, Y; Gu, D; George, LK
Published in: Res Aging
January 2011

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.

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Res Aging

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EISSN

1552-7573

Publication Date

January 2011

Volume

33

Issue

1

Start / End Page

51 / 83

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Gerontology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Zeng, Y., Gu, D., & George, L. K. (2011). Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults. Res Aging, 33(1), 51–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027510383584
Zeng, Yi, Danan Gu, and Linda K. George. “Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults.Res Aging 33, no. 1 (January 2011): 51–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027510383584.
Zeng Y, Gu D, George LK. Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults. Res Aging. 2011 Jan;33(1):51–83.
Zeng, Yi, et al. “Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults.Res Aging, vol. 33, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 51–83. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/0164027510383584.
Zeng Y, Gu D, George LK. Association of Religious Participation With Mortality Among Chinese Old Adults. Res Aging. 2011 Jan;33(1):51–83.
Journal cover image

Published In

Res Aging

DOI

EISSN

1552-7573

Publication Date

January 2011

Volume

33

Issue

1

Start / End Page

51 / 83

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Gerontology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences