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Do Religious Struggles Mediate the Association Between Neighborhood Disorder and Health in the United States?
Terrence D Hill1, Laura Upenieks2, Julia K Wolf3
1Department of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA. terrence.hill@utsa.edu.
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have linked the subjective experience of neighborhood disorder (perceptions of crime, dilapidation and ambient strains) with poorer health. We test whether religious struggles (religious doubts and feeling abandoned or punished by God) mediate this association. Our counterfactual mediation analyses of data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS) (n = 1741) revealed consistent indirect effects of neighborhood disorder through religious struggles for anger, psychological distress, sleep disturbance, poorer self-rated health, and shorter subjective life expectancy. This study contributes to previous work by integrating the study of neighborhood context and religion.
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