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Yang, B., & Lester, D. (1991). Correlates of statewide divorce rates. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 15(3-4), 219-223.
Yang, B. (1992). The economy and suicide: a time-series study of the U.S.A. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 51(1), 87-99.
Yates, J.W., Chalmer, B.J., & St. James, P., Follansbee, M., & McKegney FP (1981). Religion in patients with advanced cancer. Medical and Pediatric Oncology, 9, 121-128. (C/S survey and prospective cohort study; convenience sample of 71 patients with advanced cancer (survival prognosis 3-12 mos, although only 36/71 died within 12 mos) from regional cancer center in Burlington, Vermont, mean age 59; in C/S survey, correlations were presented for results obtained with initial questionnaire; sample was highly religious, with 92% believing in God, 83% believing in a personal God, 80% believed prayer was helpful, two-thirds felt close to God or nature in previous couple weeks, and about half indicated that church was very important in their lives; religious beliefs scale was correlated with 1/4 well-being measures (.41), lower pain level (-.29), but was unrelated to presence of pain or longer survival (retrospectively); importance of church and religion was correlated with 2/4 well-being scales (.31 and .24), less pain (-.33), but was also unrelated to presence of pain; church attendance related to 3/4 well-being measures (.32-.35, p<.005), to less pain (-.24), but unrelated to presence or pain or to duration of survival); closeness to God related to two well-being measures (.33 and .43, p<.005), to less presence of pain (-.29, p<.01), and to lower pain level (-.25); in the prospective part of the study, questionnaires administered every 2-4 weeks for unknown duration, though likely < 1 year; religious beliefs or practices were unrelated to days before death in 36 subjects who died; religious beliefs showed relatively little change over time in either the overall sample or in 18 patients who died on whom such data was available and certainly no increase in religious beliefs as death approached; part of the problem, however, may have been due to difficulty assessing religious beliefs as death approached)
Yelsma, P., & Montambo, L. (1990). Patients' and spouses' religious problem-solving styles and their physiological health. Psychological Reports, 66, 857-858. (C/S convenience sample of 55 patients and spouses 1-48 months after completing rehabilitation program for myocardial infarction in southwestern Michigan (43 men, 12 women); asked if problem solving methods (assessed afterward) were related to physiological recovery during 12 week rehabilitation program; three religious problem-solving styles were examined: self-directing (God grants me freedom to solve my own problems myself), collaborative (God and I actively work together to solve my problems, & deferring (turn my problems over to God and wait for His solutions to emerge); METs (myocardial oxygen consumption) on entry and rehab program discharge was outcome; results indicated that none of three religious coping styles (assessed 1-48 months after exit) were associated with increased recovery from MI during the 12 week rehab program; did find, however, that as time since MI passed, collaborative and deferring methods were used less often and self-directing approaches were increased; patients showed lower collaborative problem solving and high self-directed problem solving than their spouses)
Yeung, P.P., & Greenwald, S. (1992). Jewish Americans and mental health: Results of the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 27, 292-297. (Data analyzed on 3640 participants from the New Haven site of the NIMH ECA study. Compared rates of psychiatric disorder and help seeking behavior between Jews and non-Jews. Found no significant difference in overall lifetime rate of psychiatric disorders among Jews vs. non-Jews. However, found significantly higher rates of major depression and dysthymia among Jews vs. Catholics and Protestants. Jews were also more likely than Catholics or Protestants to seek treatment from mental health specialists and general physicians.)
Young, G., & Dowling, W. (1987). Dimensions of religiosity in old age: Accounting for variation in types of participation. Journal of Gerontology, 42, 376-380. (C/S convenience sample of 123 of 200 members of five El Paso, TX chapters of AARP; religious variables were religious preference, beliefs, and experience, along with 5 items on organized religious activities scale and a 7 items on private religious activities; after other variables controlled, age was inversely correlated with ORA and positively associated with NORA; in zero-order analyses, health was positively related to ORA (p<.05) and negatively related to NORA (ns), but no association in regression; poor health, low income, reduced activity, and living alone did not predict higher levels of non-organized religious behavior (although analyses were controlled for religious beliefs and experiences, which were strongly associated with NORA and ORA); high levels of private devotion, however, was associated with strong kin/friendship networks)
Young, M., & Daniels, S. (1980). Born-again status as a factor in death anxiety. Psychological Reports, 47, 367-370. (C/S survey of 320 students at two rural high schools in East Alabama (randomly selected from lists which included total enrollment at both schools); given Templer's Death Anxiety scale; subjects were classified as "born again" Christians, not born again Christians, and non-Christians; highest death anxiety was among non-Christians and lowest DA was among "born again" Christians) (independent of sex and race, although only 5% of variance in DA explained by these variables) (stratified by sex and race, i.e. controlled) (R 6)
Young M, Daniels S (1981). Religious correlates of death anxiety among high school students in the rural south. Death Education 4:223-233 (C/S survey of 320 students at two rural high schools in East Alabama (randomly selected from lists which included total enrollment at both schools); given Templer's Death Anxiety scale; 24-item Faulkner and DeJong Religiosity in 5-D scale was administered; controlling for sex and race, greater fear of death was associated with greater degree of religiosity on ideological scale (r=.12); greater fear of death associated with lower levels of religiosity on the intellectual scale (r=.13); more liberal denominational affiliations exhibited greater death anxiety (r=-.14); and born again status associated with less DA (all p<.05 in regression model) (R 6)
Youniss, J., McLellan, JA, Yates, M. (1999). Religion, community service, and identity in American youth. Journal of Adolescence, 22, 243-253. (Examines the role of religion in identity development, in particular as it involves community service. Data from a nationally representative sample strengthens the case that the many contemporary youth who take religion seriously are engaged in their schooling, in betterment of communities, and development of identities which presage healthy lives.)
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1995). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance-United States, 1993. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
