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6395w665237	Ellen Childs	Happiness and Religious Attendance	2009		.txt	text/plain	181	8	35	In this paper, I compare these explanations by examining two key mediating variablesÌ¢ âÂ' self-reported relationship with God and strength of social ties from the religious organizationÌ¢ âÂ' to explain the correlation between religious attendance and happiness, finding that both mediate the relationship between religious attendance and happiness. In the second part of this analysis, I question the degree to which the assumed causal direction of religious attendance to happiness is accurate.	cache/6395w665237.txt	txt/6395w665237.txt