Within-person changes in religiosity, control beliefs, and subjective well-being across middle and late adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Given the well-established link between control beliefs and well-being, researchers have turned their attention to characterizing mechanisms that help foster this relationship across the second half of life. Cross-sectional, empirical work has identified a mediating relationship among religiosity and spirituality (R/S), control beliefs, and subjective well-being, such that individuals with higher R/S show higher subjective well-being that is mediated by between-person differences in perceived control. Empirical tests of between-person differences, however, may not represent within-person associations. As such, the present study utilized longitudinal data from the Notre Dame Study of Health & Well-being (NDHWB; N = 1,017) to examine concurrent, within-person associations among three

SUBMITTER: Joiner RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10069325 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature