Existential Beliefs, Social Satisfaction, and Well-Being Among Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant Older Adults

摘要: Religiousness, spirituality, and existential beliefs are important sources of well-being yet neither their specific effects nor group variation in them is well understood. In a sample more than 1,000 older adults, we found that certain or concerns (fear God, death anxiety, belief life after death, about being mourned) correlates adults differed across religious groups. Protestants reported better Catholics Jews. Differences social satisfaction partially explained these differences, which were not by demographics. These results suggest the importance studying religion way appreciates differences among groups further looking at different