TY - JOUR
T1 - Religiosity and general health among undergraduate students
T2 - a response to O'Connor, Cobb, and O'Connor (2003)
AU - Francis, Leslie J.
AU - Robbins, Mandy
AU - Lewis, Christopher Alan
AU - Quigley, Catherine F.
AU - Wheeler, Christopher
PY - 2004/8/1
Y1 - 2004/8/1
N2 - To extend the work of O'Connor et al. (2003), a sample of 246 undergraduate students completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity together with the thirty-item version of the General Health Questionnaire and measures of church attendance, personal prayer, and bible reading. The data demonstrate that a positive attitude toward Christianity is associated with a higher level of self-reported general health. Church attendance and personal prayer convey no additional predictive power after attitude toward Christianity has been taken into account. These findings contradict those of O'Connor et al. (2003) and are sufficiently important to deserve replication among other samples.
AB - To extend the work of O'Connor et al. (2003), a sample of 246 undergraduate students completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity together with the thirty-item version of the General Health Questionnaire and measures of church attendance, personal prayer, and bible reading. The data demonstrate that a positive attitude toward Christianity is associated with a higher level of self-reported general health. Church attendance and personal prayer convey no additional predictive power after attitude toward Christianity has been taken into account. These findings contradict those of O'Connor et al. (2003) and are sufficiently important to deserve replication among other samples.
KW - Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity
KW - General Health Questionnaire
KW - Psychological distress
KW - Religiosity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3442901607&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.017
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3442901607
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 37
SP - 485
EP - 494
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 3
ER -