Abstract

CARDOSO, Myrian Cristina da Silva  and  FERREIRA, Maria Cristina. Religious involvement and elderly subjective well-being. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2009, vol.29, n.2, pp. 380-393. ISSN 1414-9893.

The relationships between religious involvement and elderly subjective well-being were investigated in this paper. The participants were 256 elderly male and female, whose age ranged from 60 to 90 years old. They answered three instruments designed to measure life satisfaction, positive and negative affects and religious involvement, as well as questions related to social-demographic information. The results showed that in relation to the religious involvement dimensions, just the subjective religiosity had a positive and significant relationship with life satisfaction. Besides that there was no relationship between religious involvement and the positive and negative affects. The protestant elderly presented a higher level of positive affect than catholics did. The results are discussed based on empirical studies and conceptual models used as background for research.

Keywords : Subjective well-being; Religious involvement; Old age; Life satisfaction.

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