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English
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Religiosity and Life Satisfaction of LDS Women
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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158
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Ph.D. Dissertation
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This research compares life satisfaction in two samples of women from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) with women from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). Results show the LDS women to be highly religious, with similar levels of life satisfaction, lower levels of mental depression, and lower levels of self-esteem than the NSFH women.
In addition, a model using only the LDS women tested the affects of personal, private and experiential religiosity on various facets of satisfaction and mental well-being. Results show that among those with higher religiosity experiential religiosity was significant in predicting self-esteem, life satisfaction, marital satisfaction, parenting satisfaction, and had an inverse relationship to mental depression.