Spirituality, loneliness and mental health in Blackfeet American Indian adults

Betty Henderson-Matthews, Reece Kothe, Skye Gilham, Zachary J Wood, George Heavy Runner, Lester Johnson, Mary Ellen Lafromboise, Melveena Malatare, Emily Salois and Neha A John-Henderson

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: Prior work documents a relationship between spirituality and mental health in American Indians. Separately, a robust literature links loneliness to indices of mental health. The current study is grounded in Community Based Participatory Research methods and investigates the relationship between spirituality, loneliness and indices of mental health. In a sample of 276 Blackfeet American Indian adults, a linear regression controlling for age, gender, education and marital status showed that higher levels of spirituality predicted lower levels of loneliness (β = −.31, t(266)=−5.34, p

Date: 2025
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