This study focuses on how daily religious coping mitigates daily stress, regulates emotional responses, and ultimately produces more optimal health outcomes. Participants were 267 community-dwelling older adults from the Later Life Cohort of the Notre Dame Study of Health & Well-being (mean age=72; 63% female). Daily diary data (56 days) were used to assess the effects of daily perceived stress, daily religious coping, and their interaction on daily negative affect. Multi-level modeling (MLM) results suggested that religious coping regulated the effects of stress on negative affect (β=0.02; p<.01). The intraindividual variability in these day-level effects represent specific dynamic aspects of the individual, referred to as dynamic characteristics. These person-level dynamic characteristics derived from the MLM were correlated with indicators of metabolic health, and predicted healthier values. Most significantly, the stress buffering effects of Religious Coping predicted better metabolic health, as indicated by negative correlations with glucose tolerance (A1c; r = -0.32, p < .001) and the Obesity composite variable (r = -0.23, p = .01). Results demonstrate that the ability to use religious coping to regulate the effects of stress on negative affect may delay the onset of disorders associated with obesity and dysregulation in the metabolic system.

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日常宗教应对可以缓冲压力与影响的关系，并有益于老年人的整体代谢健康。

这项研究侧重于日常宗教应对如何减轻日常压力、调节情绪反应并最终产生更理想的健康结果。参与者是来自圣母大学健康与福祉研究的晚年生活队列的 267 名社区老年人（平均年龄 = 72；63% 为女性）。每日日记数据（56 天）用于评估每日感知压力、每日宗教应对以及它们对每日负面影响的相互作用的影响。多层次建模 (MLM) 结果表明，宗教应对调节了压力对负面情绪的影响（β=0.02；p<.01）。这些日级效应的个体内变异性代表了个体的特定动态方面，称为动态特性。这些源自传销的人级动态特征与代谢健康指标相关，并预测更健康的价值。最重要的是，宗教应对的压力缓冲效果预测了更好的代谢健康，如与​​葡萄糖耐量（A1c；r = -0.32，p < .001）和肥胖复合变量（r = -0.23，p = . 01)。结果表明，使用宗教应对来调节压力对负面情绪的影响的能力可能会延迟与肥胖和代谢系统失调相关的疾病的发作。001) 和肥胖复合变量 (r = -0.23, p = .01)。结果表明，使用宗教应对来调节压力对负面情绪的影响的能力可能会延迟与肥胖和代谢系统失调相关的疾病的发作。001) 和肥胖复合变量 (r = -0.23, p = .01)。结果表明，使用宗教应对来调节压力对负面情绪的影响的能力可能会延迟与肥胖和代谢系统失调相关的疾病的发作。