A new study has found that talking
about religion and spirituality with children and increasing them with values
can protect them from issues of mental health.
Recent research from Harvard's TH School
of Public Health has found that children and adolescents, who give religious or
spiritual conversations in their growing years, have better physical and mental
health as their age.
Research published in the American
Journal of Epidemiology found that people who prayed or meditated on a regular
basis took the same benefit, which later included a low risk of substance
misuse and depression in life. To study the benefits of prayers and meditation
on mental health for the study, the team saw data about 5000 people from two
separate studies. The youth was followed eight to 14 years later.
At the end of the study, it was
disclosed that those who participated in religious services at least once a
week because children or teenagers were 18 percent more likely to report
happiness in 20th. The team also found that they have more than 30 percent more
chance of volunteering, and in their 20's, 33 percent of medicines are less
likely.
The interesting thing is that the team
noticed that it was not so much that how much a person went to religious
services, but at least it was as much as he prayed or personally meditated. It
was found that those who pray or meditate daily, they had more life
satisfaction, were better at processing emotions, and were more forgiving than
those who did not pray or meditate. They also had less chance of having sex in
the early age and getting sexually transmitted infections.
The study author, Ying Chen said in
the study, "These findings are important for both our understanding of
health and our understanding of parenting practices. Many children are raised
religiously, and our study shows that it is their health behavior, Can affect
mental health, and overall happiness and well-being.
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