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Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World
In many countries, a minority of the population is actively religious
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- Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World
- Actively religious people tend to be happier
- In the U.S., religion tied to some measures of health, happiness and civic engagement
- Actively religious people more likely to engage in other types of groups
- On balance, actively religious are more likely to vote
- In many countries, actively religious most likely to abstain from frequent drinking
- Actively religious less likely to smoke
- Actively religious are not usually more physically active
- No advantage for actively religious people when measuring obesity
- In many countries, a minority of the population is actively religious
- Few differences between inactively religious and unaffiliated in well-being, civic engagement
- Unaffiliated less likely to be obese than the inactively religious, but in some countries more likely to smoke
- Actively religious tend to be older, female
- Regression results in analysis pooling all countries together
- The distinctive behaviors of the actively religious generally persist even after controlling for their demographic characteristics
- No clear relationships between self-rated health, religious activity, affiliation in general populations