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Title: Women who stop church 'put health at risk'
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai ... news/2008/01/01/nchurch201.xml
Published: Jan 4, 2008
Author: Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
Post Date: 2008-01-04 01:55:31 by scrapper2
Keywords: females, religion, health effects
Views: 172
Comments: 2

Women who stop going to church are at greater risk of mental health and drinking problems, a study claims.

Researchers say women who let their religious activity lapse are three times more likely to suffer from anxiety or become dependent on alcohol than those who keep their faith active.

However, men who took part in the study and who became less religious in adulthood did not appear to suffer any increase in mental health problems.

Dr Joanna Maselko, the lead study author, of Temple University, Philadelphia, said women suffered more from losing interest in religion because they were more likely to lose friends and social contacts as a result.

Dr Maselko said: "Women are more integrated into the social networks of their religious communities.

"When they stop attending religious services, they lose access to that network and all its potential benefits. Men may not be as integrated into the religious community and so may not suffer the negative consequences of leaving."

Dr Maselko, whose research is published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, questioned 718 adults.

Among the women, seven per cent of those who had always been active in their religion had symptoms of anxiety disorder.

However, 21 per cent of those who were less religiously active than in their childhood suffered symptoms of anxiety.

They were also three times more likely to have had drinking problems.

This effect was not seen in the men. The survey found male participants who stopped being religiously active were less likely to suffer from serious depression than those who still went to church.

Dr Maselko said: " A person's current level of spirituality is only part of the story. We can only get a better understanding of the relationship between health and spirituality by knowing a person's religious history."

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#1. To: scrapper2 (#0)

I quit going to church when I was 12. Bored me to tears. I was much happier after I quit. For one thing, it allowed me to sleep late when I was a teenager, except when my mom would wake me up by banging the vacuum cleaner against my bed.

That's why mothers should go to church every Saturday and Sunday morning.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. A zombie, however, prefers it raw.

YertleTurtle  posted on  2008-01-04   7:33:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: YertleTurtle (#1)

I quit going to church when I was 12. Bored me to tears. I was much happier after I quit. For one thing, it allowed me to sleep late when I was a teenager, except when my mom would wake me up by banging the vacuum cleaner against my bed.

That's why mothers should go to church every Saturday and Sunday morning.

LOL!

I'm a holy day and when guilt gets the better of me Catholic church goer. I stopped being a Sunday regular after I left home. However my sister still attends church faithfully and I must say though she is quite a bit older than me, she is way healthier than I am. Go figure - maybe there's some truth to this study.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-01-04   18:57:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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