{"id":29243,"date":"2011-11-10T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_study_says_religious_services_make_some_women_happier\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:55:31","slug":"rns_study_says_religious_services_make_some_women_happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29243","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Study says religious services make some women happier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got the blues? Go to church.<\/p>\n<p>A new study in the Journal of Religion and Health suggests that \u201d\u201d at least for some women of a certain age \u201d\u201d there\u2019s a link between optimism and attendance at religious services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at the religious practices of nearly 100,000 women and \u201d\u201d like it or not \u201d\u201d found a strong connection between going to church or synagogue or any other house of worship and a positive outlook on life,\u201d\u009d said Eliezer Schnall, clinical associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/study-says-religious-services-make-some-women-happier\/2011\/11\/09\/gIQAuwQD6M_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the blues? Go to church. A new study in the Journal of Religion and Health suggests that \u201d\u201d at least for some women of a certain age \u201d\u201d there\u2019s a link between optimism and attendance at religious services. \u201cWe<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29243\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,183,184,129,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}