Christian Identification and Self‐Reported Depression: Evidence from China.
Abstract: The nexus between religion and mental health in the East has been understudied, where the coexistence of multiple religions calls for scholarly attention to religious identification. This article investigates the impact on self‐reported depression of an individual's identification with Chr...
| Published in: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 765 - 781 |
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