Abstract
The subject of the presented research is the analysis of relations between Post-Critical Belief and Sense of Coherence in women and men in early, middle, and late adulthood. Six hundred and thirty-six individuals participated in the research, 332 women and 304 men, at the age of 18–79 years. We applied the Post-Critical Belief scale by Hutsebaut (J Empir Theol 9:48–66, 1996) and the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-29) by Antonovsky (Soc Sci Med 36:725–733, 1993). The results suggest that the salutogenic function of religiosity is related to age and gender—in women, it is most strongly marked in late, and in men, in middle adulthood
Highlights
Religion is among the most important cultural factors which give structure and meaning to human behaviors and experiences
The results suggest that the salutogenic function of religiosity is related to age and gender—in women, it is most strongly marked in late, and in men, in middle adulthood
The second level of analyses included a series of canonical analyses which we used to demonstrate a relationship between a set of predictor variables (Post-Critical Beliefs) and a set of criterion variables
Summary
Religion is among the most important cultural factors which give structure and meaning to human behaviors and experiences. Surveys of the US population have established that religion holds a central place in the lives of many Americans. In light of the research conducted by the Bertesmann Foundation in 2008, 68 % of Americans declared high importance of religious beliefs and prayer in their life (Joas 2009). According to the data by Gallup and Lindsay (1981), almost 75 % of the American society hold the opinion that their attitude to live is rooted in their religious beliefs. Other studies (see McNichol 1996; Tagay et al 2006) indicated that
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