Associations between dimensions of religiousness and psychosocial functioning among bereaved youth

Rooney, Evan Edward; Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Kaplow, Julie B.

doi:10.1080/07481187.2019.1578304

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“…In the present study, we consider self-esteem according to the third perspective, this is, as an output and a possible effect of religious experience. The association between religiosity and self-esteem is somewhat ambivalent or unclear (Markstrom 1999), showing sometimes positive (Smith et al 1979;Bahr and Martin 1983;Ciarrochi and Heaven 2012;Thompson et al 2012;Ghorbani et al 2013;Cheadle et al 2018;Rooney et al 2020;Abu-Raiya et al 2021;Kane et al 2021), negative (Watson et al 1985(Watson et al , 1995, or even no (James et al 2003;Ghaffari and Çiftçi 2010;Aydin et al 2010) correlations between both phenomena.…”

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The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

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In comforting or distressing circumstances, individuals tend to have various perceptions of themselves. It seems that religious comfort and religious distress correlate differently with people’s self-esteem. Since the relationship between religiosity and self-esteem is not only direct but can be mediated by other factors that are recognized as buffers against adverse situations, our main goal was to verify whether dispositional gratitude may have an indirect effect on the association between both variables. The research involved data from 254 participants aged 18 to 25 (M = 21.24; SD = 2.09) and included 192 women (76%) and 62 men (24%). To measure the title variables, we used: the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6). The results showed that people who consider religion as a source of comfort express positive attitudes toward the self and recognize others’ kindness, as well. In contrast, people who consider religiosity as a cause of fear, stress, and internal strain tend to display a lower subjective sense of personal worth and lower appreciation of the positivity around them. Moreover, gratitude had a mediatory effect on the relationships between religious comfort/negative emotions toward God and self-esteem.

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Section: Religiosity and Self-esteemmentioning

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The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

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The Function of Connection: Examining Social Supports in the Lives of Parentally Bereaved Youth

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Through reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored three forms of social support in the lives of parentally bereaved youth: support derived from one’s spirituality, caregiver support via parent-child communication, and therapist support from grief counseling ( N = 30 youth, M age = 12.5 years, SD = 2.8 years). Results showed that these sources of support serve varied and vital functions in the lives of parentally bereaved youth. Namely, the benefits of grief counseling and spirituality were consistently identified by youth as critical in facilitating their coping with the loss of a parent; while parent-child communication regarding the deceased varied widely, highlighting the need for additional supports beyond their surviving caregiver. Findings also revealed differences among these supports across youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age. Adolescents were more likely to disengage from counseling services and reported less parental and spiritual support. Males and minoritized youth experienced more benefits from spiritual and therapist supports.

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Associations between dimensions of religiousness and psychosocial functioning among bereaved youth

Cited by 2 publications

References 50 publications

The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

The Function of Connection: Examining Social Supports in the Lives of Parentally Bereaved Youth

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