Posted on 08/02/2019 7:33:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study released by the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity uncovers some of the relationships between faith and mental health in Ireland.
The study is published by the peer-reviewed journal Research on Aging.
The research, involving over 6,000 adults aged 50 and over found that a majority of over 50s in Ireland attend religious services regularly, and that regular religious attendance was associated with lower depressive symptoms in this population. Observations took place for six years, from 2010 to 2016.
The relationship between being religious and mental health was found to be complex. Although those with higher religious attendance had lower depressive symptoms, those who said that religion was very important to them but who did not attend very frequently, had worse mental health. Religious attendance was also related to having a bigger social network, which in turn had a positive effect on the mental health of the population.
TILDA researcher and lead author Joanna Orr said: "This new research shows that religious belief and practice in the over 50s in Ireland is complexly associated with mental wellbeing. Considering the decline in religious participation, belief and practice in Ireland, it is important to assess how this may affect those who are religious. Maintenance of religious practice for those who are religious, as well as the maintenance and bolstering of social networks and social participation for all in this age group emerge as important."
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How many people incapacitated by mental conditions can attend church? This is another one of the myriad stupid studies designed to illicit a cause-and-effect conclusion even though the study has no capability of isolating cause and effect.
I believe that church attendance is good for mental health, but this study doesn’t show it.
Is it even possible to measure, whether church attendance is good for mental health, within the confines of methods used in performing studies? Any way to really measure whether there is causation or merely coincidence?
Holy cow. That’s creepy.
What is THAT all depicting?
she had a whole collection of such "works." Just like Podesta.
It’s very disturbing that a mother would inflict something like that on her children.
More than you would think, judging by the number of Facebook posts equating the flight of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus into Egypt with why we should throw open our southern border to all who want in.
There is no thought by these imbeciles that (a)Joseph had a skill in carpentry to enable him to support the family, (b)they most probably had resources from the gifts of the Magi, (c)they planned to return home after the danger was past, which they did three years later, (d)there was no possibility to become a permanent ward of the state.
Older people who regularly go anywhere have better mental health.
Those wooden statues of...whatever, “created” demons that then swept down into the kids?
That’s some powerful wuju right there.
No, certainly not. However that "art" is indicative of what the boys were exposed to in that home -- the same home from which Anderson's brother Wyatt leaped to his death.
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