Religion and Life Satisfaction Down Under

Kortt, MA; Dollery, B; Grant, B

Religion and Life Satisfaction Down Under

Kortt, MA Dollery, B Grant, B

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, 16 (2), pp. 277 - 293
Issue Date:: 2015-04-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Kortt, MA	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dollery, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Grant, B https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8055-6046	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:04:18Z
dc.date.issued	2015-04-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, 16 (2), pp. 277 - 293	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1389-4978	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37740
dc.description.abstract	© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. We investigated the association between religious involvement and life satisfaction using panel data from the 2004, 2007, and 2010 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Our study provides strong evidence of an association between attendance at religious services and life satisfaction in the Australian social context. While social resources mediate this association, there appears to be a remaining direct influence of attendance at religious services on life satisfaction. To unravel this association, there is a need to disentangle and separately assess the influence that ‘religious social resources’ and ‘secular social resources’ may have on life satisfaction.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Happiness Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10902-014-9509-4	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Social Psychology	en_US
dc.title	Religion and Life Satisfaction Down Under	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	16	en_US
utslib.for	1701 Psychology	en_US
utslib.for	1702 Cognitive Sciences	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/lnstitute for Public Policy and Governance
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - IPPG - Institute for Public Policy and Governance
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	16	en_US

Abstract:

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. We investigated the association between religious involvement and life satisfaction using panel data from the 2004, 2007, and 2010 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Our study provides strong evidence of an association between attendance at religious services and life satisfaction in the Australian social context. While social resources mediate this association, there appears to be a remaining direct influence of attendance at religious services on life satisfaction. To unravel this association, there is a need to disentangle and separately assess the influence that ‘religious social resources’ and ‘secular social resources’ may have on life satisfaction.

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