<p>The experience of discrimination is associated with worse health outcomes. Religious attendance associated with positive health is theorized to buffer the harmful effect of stressors (e.g., discrimination). Using data from the 2020 Canadian General Social Survey, we examined whether discrimination moderated the religious attendance–health relationship. The effects of religious attendance on well-being were modest and not uniformly linear. Additionally, the current results did not support that religious service attendance mitigated the adverse impacts of religious discrimination. The results highlight a need to revisit theoretical models of buffering to consider additional factors that influence the R/S–health relationship amid discrimination, including the nature, frequency, and intensity of discrimination experiences.</p>

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Religious Service Attendance, Religious Discrimination, and Well-being in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadians

  • Michaela Ritchie,
  • David Speed

摘要

The experience of discrimination is associated with worse health outcomes. Religious attendance associated with positive health is theorized to buffer the harmful effect of stressors (e.g., discrimination). Using data from the 2020 Canadian General Social Survey, we examined whether discrimination moderated the religious attendance–health relationship. The effects of religious attendance on well-being were modest and not uniformly linear. Additionally, the current results did not support that religious service attendance mitigated the adverse impacts of religious discrimination. The results highlight a need to revisit theoretical models of buffering to consider additional factors that influence the R/S–health relationship amid discrimination, including the nature, frequency, and intensity of discrimination experiences.