God’s Perceived Engagement/Disengagement in Response to Prayer and Interpersonal Forgiveness: The Mediating Role of Positive Orientation

Szczęśniak, Małgorzata; Strochalska, Klaudia

doi:10.3390/rel12100846

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“…For the first goal, we used an index of tolerance less than 0.2 and variance inflation factors (VIFs) higher than 5.0 as indicatives of high intercorrelations ( Świ ątek et al 2021). For the second aim, we used the value of Mahalanobis' distance not being lower than p = 0.001 and the value of Cook's distance not being higher than 1 (Szcześniak and Strochalska 2021). To realize the third objective, we chose the variables of sex, age, and religious engagement.…”

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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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“…The value of the Chi-square still showed a poor fit (39.399, degrees of freedom = 19), presenting a statistically significant p = 0.003. However, the current sample was larger than that of Study 2, which often results in a significant p value (Szcześniak and Strochalska 2021). Inspection of local fit indices showed good standardized factor loadings that ranged from 0.78 to 0.96 (Figure 3).…”

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Validation of the Polish Version of the Brief Measure of Perceived Divine Engagement and Disengagement in Response to Prayer (PDED)

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Divine engagement applies to a positive relationship with God in which people feel that God is close to them and answers their prayers. Divine disengagement pertains to an unsteady connection and a sense of God’s absence. Although several questionnaires consider the concerns of the human experience of prayer, only one deals precisely with the subject of the human perception of divine engagement and disengagement in response to one’s prayer. The main goals of the present research were to: (1) determine the latent structure of the Brief Measure of Perceived Divine Engagement and Disengagement in Response to Prayer (PDED) in a sample set; (2) test whether the factor structure indicated by EFA matches the data and provides an equivalent goodness-of-fit index to Exline’s model; and (3) confirm that perceived divine engagement and disengagement are correlated with religious meaning, gratitude to God, and dimensions of religious centrality. The results show that the proposed two-factor structure of the eight-item version of the PDED is a suitable and reliable solution of the original PDED (Study 1). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) revealed a good fit of the data to the model in both the second and third studies. Both dimensions of the PDED correlated significantly with all of the subscales of the RMS, GGQ–6, and CRS–15. The Polish version of the PDED demonstrated very good psychometric properties.

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“…Conversely, a perception of God as silent and disconnected from people (a marginal religious position) may induce less positivity, and therefore, impede forgiveness. (Szcześniak & Strochalska, 2021) Another study with 368 kids found a statistically significant connection between forgiveness and terminal values (the desired end-states that a person strongly wants to achieve such as "a comfortable life", "freedom", or "salvation.") and meaning in the lives of the participants.…”

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Forgiveness: A Comprehensive Literature Review

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Intl J. Indian Psychology

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Forgiveness is an important trait that every individual ought to possess in today’s world. Forgiveness encourages compassion. To highlight important findings, an overview of recent research on forgiveness is offered in this study. The research was conducted through a detailed review of the literature of different research done on the variable “Forgiveness”, in the last five years. The research articles demonstrate the correlation between forgiveness and various areas like love, crime, covid, well-being, work outcomes, self-forgiveness, divine forgiveness, sports, gender differences, cross-cultures, suicidal survivors’ trauma, young adults, as well as adolescents. The review article also presents the relationship between forgiveness and religion, forgiveness therapy, emotional forgiveness, and brand forgiveness. The conclusion encompasses together all the major findings of the literature reviewed. The topics needed for future research, the limitations, and the strengths have also been included in the conclusion.

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God’s Perceived Engagement/Disengagement in Response to Prayer and Interpersonal Forgiveness: The Mediating Role of Positive Orientation

Cited by 4 publications

References 80 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

Validation of the Polish Version of the Brief Measure of Perceived Divine Engagement and Disengagement in Response to Prayer (PDED)

Forgiveness: A Comprehensive Literature Review

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