许多研究已经确定了健康指标的宗教相关性,但在以色列或侨民的犹太人口中进行的活动相对较少。这项研究调查了在以色列熟悉的犹太宗教身份和遵守类别中身心健康和福祉的宗教梯度的可能性:hiloni(世俗),Masortilodati(传统,非宗教),Masorti(传统),dati(宗教或东正教),和charedi(超正统)。数据来自18岁及以上的犹太受访者(N=2916),来自以色列的新样本,22个国家的全球繁荣研究,使用分层,基于概率的抽样和人口统计评估,社会经济,政治,宗教,健康相关,和其他变量。这项分析调查了以色列犹太人在9个身心健康和福祉指标上的宗教差异。使用单向ANOVA和ANCOVA的策略,针对复杂的采样设计组件进行调整,在八个结果测量中发现了统计学上显著的“剂量反应”样梯度,通过额外的多次比较测试验证。对于四个“积极”措辞的指标(身心健康,幸福,和生活满意度),从hiloni到charedi类别的分数一直在增加。对于五个“负面”措辞指标中的四个(身体疼痛,抑郁症,焦虑,和痛苦),相同类别的分数下降。结果经受住了年龄影响的调整,性别,教育,婚姻状况,城市化,收入,和诞生(无论出生在以色列)。在以色列犹太人中,更大的宗教信仰与更高水平的健康和福祉以及更低水平的躯体和心理困扰有关。
Numerous studies have identified religious correlates of health indicators, but relatively few have been conducted among Jewish populations in Israel or the diaspora. This study investigates the possibility of a religious gradient in physical and mental health and well-being across the familiar categories of Jewish religious identity and observance in Israel: hiloni (secular), masorti lo dati (traditional, non-religious), masorti (traditional), dati (religious or Orthodox), and charedi (ultra-Orthodox). Data are from Jewish respondents aged 18 and over (N = 2916) from the Israeli sample of the new, 22-nation Global Flourishing Study, which used stratified, probability-based sampling and assessed demographic, socioeconomic, political, religious, health-related, and other variables. This analysis investigated religious differences in nine indicators of physical and mental health and well-being among Israeli Jews. Using a strategy of one-way ANOVA and ANCOVA, adjusting for complex sampling design components, a statistically significant \"dose-response\"-like gradient was found for eight of the outcome measures, validated by additional multiple comparison tests. For four \"positively\" worded indicators (physical and mental health, happiness, and life satisfaction), scores increased consistently from the hiloni to the charedi categories. For four of five \"negatively\" worded indicators (bodily pain, depression, anxiety, and suffering), scores decreased across the same categories. Results withstood adjusting for effects of age, sex, education, marital status, urbanicity, income, and nativity (whether born in Israel). Among Israeli Jews, greater religiousness was associated with higher levels of health and well-being and lower levels of somatic and psychological distress.