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Aging And Religious Participation In Late Life, Kuan-Yuan Wang
Aging And Religious Participation In Late Life, Kuan-Yuan Wang
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate the relationship between two dimensions of religiosity, religious service attendance and religious beliefs, and the process of aging, controlling for the effects of covariates known to affect religious development among older adults.
Methods: Secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Florida Retirement Study was used to assess the trajectories of religious development over time as modeled with two growth processes: religious service attendance and religious beliefs. We analyzed data from six interview waves (Waves 1 and 5 - 9) with 1000 older adults age 72 or over. Covariates included demographic factors …