Spirituality, Religious Attendance and Health Complaints in Czech Adolescents
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F20%3A73610772" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/20:73610772 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081740:_____/20:00525214 RIV/61989592:15260/20:73603181 RIV/61989592:15510/20:73603181
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2339/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2339/htm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072339" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph17072339</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spirituality, Religious Attendance and Health Complaints in Czech Adolescents
Original language description
Research in some religious countries shows that religiosity and spirituality positively affect adolescent health. We studied whether religiosity and spirituality also have positive associations with adolescent health in a secular country. We tested the associations between religious attendance and spirituality and self-reported health and health complaints using a representative sample of Czech adolescents (n = 4182, 14.4 +/- 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) from the 2014 health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) study. We used religious attendance, the adjusted shortened version of the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS), and its two components-religious well-being (RWB) and existential well-being (EWB)-as independent variables and the eight item "HBSC symptom checklist" and self-reported overall health as dependent variables. A higher level of spirituality was associated with lower chances of health complaints and self-reported health, ranging from a 9% to 30% decrease in odd ratios (OR). Religious attendance was not associated with any of the observed variables. The EWB showed a negative association with all of the observed variables, with associations ranging from a 19% to 47% decrease. The RWB was associated with a higher risk of nervousness (OR = 1.12), while other associations were not significant. Non-spiritual but attending respondents were more likely to report a higher occurrence of stomachache (OR = 2.20) and had significantly worse overall health (OR = 2.38). In a largely secular country, we found that spirituality and the EWB (unlike religious attendance and the RWB) could have a significant influence on adolescent health.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-19526S" target="_blank" >GA19-19526S: Biological and psychological aspects of spiritual experience and their associations with health</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000530763300171
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082791142