Differential Effects of Family Structure on Religion and Spirituality of Emerging Adult Males and Females

Handal, Paul J.; Lace, John W.

doi:10.1007/s10943-016-0343-3

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“…In the current study, female older adults had higher levels of religious coping than male older adults. This finding is consistent with previous studies, in which female seniors reported higher levels of religiousness than did male seniors (Garg Chauhan and Sabreen 2018;Handal and Lace 2017;Henrie and Patrick 2014). This finding is also consistent with terror management theory (TMT), which states that being male is positively associated with religious doubt and negatively associated with religiousness (Henrie and Patrick 2014).…”

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Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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This descriptive study aimed to examine the association of death anxiety with religious coping and spiritual well-being among 248 community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief Arab religious coping scale, the Arabic version of the spiritual well-being Scale, and the Arabic Scale of death anxiety were used to measure religious coping, spiritual well-being, and death anxiety, respectively. The majority of the participating older adults were found to have low levels of religious coping and spiritual well-being and high levels of death anxiety. Further, in comparison to male older adults, female older adults were found to have higher levels of religious coping and lower levels of death anxiety. Moreover, in comparison to widowed older adults, married older adults were found to have higher levels of death anxiety. After controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, religious coping, and spiritual well-being were found to be significant predictors of death anxiety in older adults.

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Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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“…Recent work has extended this investigation to spirituality in emerging adulthood, a period in which spirituality is often explored (Creech et al 2013;Handal and Lace 2017;Piedmont et al 2009). Additionally, emerging adults, those between the ages of 18 to 25 (Arnett 2000), may be at an increased risk for first onset of mental health problems (Kessler et al 2005;Zivin et al 2009).…”

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Five-Factor Structure of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale and Its Relationship with Clinical Psychological Distress in Emerging Adults

2017

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This study examined the factor structure of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (STS) and its relation to clinically significant psychological distress in 644 (445 female) emerging adults from a private, Catholic university. The STS is broadly used in psychological research as a measure of spirituality. However, previous work has identified extensive psychometric problems with the STS, including variable factor structures and poor internal consistencies for its subscales. Results from exploratory factor analyses suggested a five-factor structure that accounted for over 57% of variance. Confirmatory factor analyses suggested this five-factor structure provided significantly better fit than the originally purported three-factor structure. Females reported significantly higher STS scores. Males with low reported spirituality reported significantly greater (and clinically significant) symptoms of psychological distress than lowly and moderately spiritual males. Females reporting low, moderate, and high levels of spirituality did not report significantly different levels of psychological distress. The findings provided contrasting conclusions from previous psychometric work on the STS, encourage continued study of its dimensionality across populations, and suggest a unique relationship between the STS and clinically significant psychological distress in emerging adults.

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“…Respondents were aged from 23 to 59 and all were female. This was deemed acceptable as males may react differently to spiritual content as they tend to be less spiritual and religious than females (Flere, 2007; Handal and Lace, 2017; Miller and Hoffman, 1995). Furthermore, in 2021, females out number males as users of Facebook in most western contexts including the USA, UK and Australia (Statista, 2021).…”

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Spreading the word: exploring spiritual consumption on social media

Williams

Krisjanous

2023

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Purpose The rapidly increasing practice of “sharing” and “liking” religious and spiritually inspiring content on social media platforms suggests it is engaging for consumers, but it is unclear why. This study aims to investigate consumer interpretations of spiritual content on social media in relation to participatory roles. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative in-depth interviews and thematic analysis are used. Members of social networks actively engaged in social media posting were identified through researcher networks and snowballing. Findings The social media space facilitates enhanced consumer agency in the consumption of spiritual messages which are readily accessible in this secular context. Three levels of interpretive meaning for consumers, conditional on the perceived sender motivations and temporality of receipt and related to participatory roles are identified. Despite being widely disseminated and immersed in the profane, some participants receive spiritual inspiration, which helps them achieve self-transcendence. Others receive inspiration through affirmation of their values and identity; however for a few, inspirational messages are met with scepticism and are not meaningful. Social media facilitates consumers’ ability to provide others with positive inspiration, however, this is not always their intent. Originality/value This work contributes unique insight regarding consumption of spirituality in a social media environment highlighting the importance of sender mediation and temporal context with implications for spiritual meaning and online engagement with spiritual content. A unique typology relating interpretive meaning to participatory roles is presented.

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Differential Effects of Family Structure on Religion and Spirituality of Emerging Adult Males and Females

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Association of Death Anxiety with Spiritual Well-Being and Religious Coping in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Five-Factor Structure of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale and Its Relationship with Clinical Psychological Distress in Emerging Adults

Spreading the word: exploring spiritual consumption on social media

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