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Religiosity and Loneliness Among the Elderly

Doyle Paul Johnson

University of South Florida

Larry C. Mullins

University of South Florida

Based on a deprivation model of religiosity we analyze the relationship between two dimensions of religiosity and loneliness among the elderly with the effects of involvement in various types of family and friendship relations controlled and compared with the effects of religiosity. Data were collected through interviews with 131 residents of a 199-unit apartment facility for the elderly. Results of the regression analysis showed that greater involvement in the social aspects of religion was significantly related to less loneliness more consistently than involvement in the variousfamily andfriendship relations. In contrast, the subjective dimension of religiosity was not significantly related to loneliness with the social contact variables controlled, even though the direction was as hypothesized

Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 110-131 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/073346488900800109
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