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Voluntary leadership roles in religious groups and rates of change in functional status during older adulthood

Auteurs: R. David Hayward, Neal Krause

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Uitgave 3/2014

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Linear growth curve modeling was used to compare rates of change in functional status between three groups of older adults: Individuals holding voluntary lay leadership positions in a church, regular church attenders who were not leaders, and those not regularly attending church. Functional status was tracked longitudinally over a 4-year period in a national sample of 1,152 Black and White older adults whose religious backgrounds were either Christian or unaffiliated. Leaders had significantly slower trajectories of increase in both the number of physical impairments and the severity of those impairments. Although regular church attenders who were not leaders had lower mean levels of impairment on both measures, compared with those not regularly attending church, the two groups of non-leaders did not differ from one another in their rates of impairment increase. Leadership roles may contribute to longer maintenance of physical ability in late life, and opportunities for voluntary leadership may help account for some of the health benefits of religious participation.

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One concern which arises when dealing with longitudinal data is the effect of selective attrition (e.g., if less healthy participants tend to leave the study at earlier waves). To diagnose the effects of attrition on the present results, we re-ran the analyses with a dummy variable contrasting participants who stayed in the study in all waves with those who dropped out. For both outcome variables, non-attenders who experienced attrition had higher mean levels of impairment than non-attenders who remained in the study. There were no attrition-related differences in means in the leader or attender groups, and there were no differences by attrition in the age-related slopes within any of the groups. While not definitive, these results suggest that patterns of attrition did not substantially influence the results of the main analyses.

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Titel: Voluntary leadership roles in religious groups and rates of change in functional status during older adulthood
Auteurs: R. David Hayward
Neal Krause
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Uitgave 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-012-9488-z

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