Neal Krause

TL;DR: This paper explored the benefits that are associated with joining Pentecostal and Evangelical congregations, and found that older Mexican Americans who affiliate with PentECostal/Evangelical groups will attend worship services more often, receive more spiritual support from their fellow church members, and develop a closer relationship with God.

TL;DR: Proportional hazards modeling indicated that, consistent with previous research, moderate alcohol consumption was related with lower mortality compared with both total abstention from alcohol and heavy consumption among participants who did not belong to an alcohol-proscribing group.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between feelings of God-mediated control and optimism in Conservative Protestants and individuals affiliated with all other denominations and found that Conservative Protestants are more optimistic than people who affiliate with other denominations.

TL;DR: The authors found that compared to Whites and Hispanics, Blacks have more positive image of God scores on all four measures and were also more likely to have strong positive emotions toward God than Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between conflicting spouse and wife sex role expectations for the female role and depressive symptoms in married women, and found that women who indicate that a conflict in sex role expectation exists in their marriage report more symptoms of depression than married women who do not indicate such a discrepancy in sexrole expectations, and the effects of this relationship were found to be stronger for housewives than for women who are employed outside the home.