PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) -- U.S. adults who say they are very religious
have higher overall well-being than their counterparts who are
moderately religious, a survey indicates.
For this analysis by Gallup, Americans' degree of religiousness is
based on responses to two questions asking about the importance of
religion and church attendance.
The very religious are defined as those to whom religion is an
important part of daily life and attend church, synagogue or mosque
services at least every week or almost every week.
The moderately religious do not fall into the very religious or
non-religious groups but gave valid responses on both religion
questions. The non-religious say religion is not an important part of
daily life and seldom or never attend church, synagogue or mosque
services.
Jews have the highest well-being of any of the faith groups, followed
by atheists/agnostics, Catholics, Mormons, Muslims and Protestants.
However, 55 percent of U.S. Jews were classified as non-religious and
16 percent say they were very religious.
This suggests a well-being benefit to the church-, synagogue- and
mosque-going experience that is independent of religious faith, but
may capitalize on the social aspects of attending services, Gallup
officials say.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index research is based on an
analysis of more than 372,000 interviews conducted Jan. 2, 2009, to
July 28, 2010. The margin of error is 5 percentage points to 6
percentage points.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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