{"id":1556,"date":"2018-11-23T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2018-11-23T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:10:21","slug":"going-to-mass-also-benefits-mental-health-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2018\/11\/23\/going-to-mass-also-benefits-mental-health-a-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Mass also benefits mental health: a new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/messa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1579\" src=\"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/messa-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>\u00ab<em>The new data suggests a person\u2019s religious involvement <strong>benefits their mental health<\/strong> by promoting social engagement\u00a0providing psychological resources (hope, optimism, sense of meaning) and promoting healthier lifestyles<\/em>\u00bb. A <strong>new study<\/strong>, published on <em>Sleep Health: Journal of National Sleep Foundation<\/em>, refers it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another time, Blaise Pascal won his wager. The mathematician, indeed, dared to make a provoking reflection: who believes in God always wins, because, if God exists, he will obtain salvation. If he is wrong, he will have lived anyway a more serene existence than who does not believe. \u00ab<em>Religion and spirituality positively affect a person\u2019s health and quality<\/em>\u00bb, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleephealthjournal.org\/article\/S2352-7218(18)30043-3\/fulltext\">wrote<\/a><\/em> <strong>Christopher Ellison<\/strong>, from the UTSA Department of Sociology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recent US study, therefore, adds to the <strong>copious scientific literature<\/strong> on this topic, which we wanted to collect in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/2010\/08\/10\/la-fede-cristiana-rende-piu-felici-intelligenti-e-sani-psico-fisicamente\/\">specific dossier<\/a><\/strong> of ours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the sake of completeness, we shall report the result of <strong>the most recent research<\/strong>: married couples attending Mass together <strong>live longer<\/strong>, have less probabilities of getting depressed, and have less probabilities of getting divorced, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pik.fas.harvard.edu\/files\/pik\/files\/chapter.pdf\">according to<\/a><\/em> the Harvard School of Public Health.\u00a0On the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/archpsyc.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2529152\">JAMA Psychiatry<\/a><\/em>, instead, we read that the American women attending a religious celebration at least once (or more times) a week are five times <strong>less likely to commit suicide<\/strong> as compared to those who never go to Church. Finally, the analysis of findings from Britain\u2019s national happiness <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/12136531\/Religion-can-make-you-happier-official-figures-suggest.html\">suggested<\/a><\/em> that Christians were amongst the <strong>happiest people<\/strong> in the country, whilst those did not identify with any particular religion obtained the lowest scores of satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chance? We do not think so. <strong>It is not irrelevant<\/strong> to have or not to have grasped the ultimate sense of life, to have or not to have met the Truth, namely that Jesus of Nazareth who has remained present and a companion to man through the faces of the Christian community. <strong>With God or without God<\/strong>, everything changes, also relatively to the person and the psychophysical well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even science philosopher <strong>Evandro Agazzi<\/strong> hinted at this, by writing: \u00ab<em>Who believes in God, in a context also of reason and not of pure faith, may get this country: he can perfectly know, understand, and explain what also non-believers know and understand, and, additionally, he manages to understand certain dimensions of life and of man of which they do not think and which constitute the sense of life<\/em>\u00bb (E. Agazzi,\u00a0<em>Quando Dio aiuta a capire<\/em>, in\u00a0<em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>, 23\/06\/85, p. 3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Editorial Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new data suggests a person\u2019s religious involvement benefits their mental health by promoting social engagement\u00a0providing psychological resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1262,1255,1259,1258,1256,1253,1254,1261,1257,1260],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-believers-in-god-better","tag-benefits-mental","tag-benefits-mental-health","tag-christians-happiest-people","tag-faith-and-health","tag-mass","tag-mental-health","tag-new-study","tag-scientific-literature","tag-study"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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