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  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Examining developmental trajectories of religious and spiritual engagement is crucial for understanding adult development.
  • Previous research often overlooks nuanced changes in specific religious practices and coping mechanisms over the lifespan.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model developmental trends in communal and independent religious practices, spirituality, and religious/spiritual coping from ages 45 to 80.
  • To investigate the confluence of these factors and potential cohort differences.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal data from the Notre Dame Study of Health & Well-being (NDHWB) over 10 years.
  • Analysis of an age-heterogeneous sample using 2-level multilevel models.
  • Estimation of linear, quadratic, and cubic change functions for various religiosity/spirituality constructs.

Main Results:

  • Communal practices, spirituality, and negative coping showed cubic trajectories, with communal practices peaking twice.
  • Independent practices peaked at age 45 and declined thereafter; spirituality peaked in the early 70s.
  • Positive coping followed a linear trend, but cohort differences complicated developmental interpretation.

Conclusions:

  • Religious and spiritual engagement evolves dynamically across adulthood, with individuals adopting different faith expressions as they age.
  • Existing conclusions on age-related religiosity/spirituality changes may be oversimplified due to complex, non-linear trajectories.