Religious coping as a moderator of the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms.

Ahles, Joshua J.; Mezulis, Amy H.; Hudson, Melissa R.

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“…In this case, we observed that subjective severity influenced the increase of PTS only when negative RC is medium or high. These results show that religiosity does serve a moderating role between predictive variables and psychological responses after stressing events, which has been found in other studies [30,32,33], strengthening the negative impact of subjective severity when it is high. However, as Harris et al [15] suggested, severity and Time 1 PTS could predict negative RC and this form of coping could act as a mediational path between baseline traumatic reactions and Time 2 PTS.…”

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“…Meta-analyses by Helgeson, Reynolds and Tomich [4] and by Prati and Pietrantoni [5] identify religiosity as one of the factors associated to the development of PTG. For example, a positive between the experience of childhood abuse and PTS [31], it dampened the relationship between direct traumatic events and PTG [32], and it strengthened the relationship between stress and depression [33]. Positive RC also acts as a mediator or an explanatory process, but in an opposite way, because it partially mediated the relationship between gender and PTG [16], or it totally mediated the relationship between subject severity and PTG [8].…”

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Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

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Abstract:The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of positive and negative religious coping with posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) and growth (PTG). Their moderating role was also examined among predictors such as social support and the subjective severity of event with PTS and PTG. Two hundred and eleven Chilean adults (58.3% women) of 18 years and older who had been exposed to highly stressful were surveyed. The Brief-RCOPE, the Brief-COPE subscale of social support, the Subjective Severity of Event Scale, and a socio-demographic questionnaire were used as measurements at time one. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-short form (PTGI-SF) and Short Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview (SPRINT-E) was used to collect baseline scores and six months after. The results show that negative religious coping predicts the increase in PTS, positive religious coping predicts the increase in PTG and plays a moderation role: at low levels of positive religious coping it was found a strong association between coping by seeking social support and PTG, while at high level the association is weak. These results are discussed in the framework of the functionality of positive and negative religious coping and its role in adjusting to potentially traumatic events.

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Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

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“…Carpenter et al (2012) report a similar moderation effect, with negative religious coping appearing to exacerbate the depressogenic effects of stress over 12 weeks. Exploring the same question among undergraduates attending a private Christian university, Ahles et al (2016) found that negative religious coping moderated/exacerbated the stress-depression relationship, but only among those individuals reporting high levels of religiosity. Furthermore, Ahles et al found no evidence of positive religious coping acting as a buffer for the deleterious effects of stress on depression.…”

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Positive Religious Coping and Mental Health among Christians and Muslims in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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Positive religious coping has frequently been associated with better mental health outcomes when dealing with stressful life events (e.g., natural disasters, domestic abuse, divorce). The COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated infection prevention and control measures (curfew, quarantine, restricted travel, social distancing), represent a society-wide stressor. This study explored positive religious coping among the Muslim and Christian residents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the early stages of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (N = 543) completed an online survey assessing religious coping in response to the pandemic, along with symptom measures of depression, anxiety and history of psychological disorder. Muslims (N = 339) reported significantly higher levels of positive religious coping compared to their Christian counterparts (N = 204). Across the whole sample, positive religious coping was inversely related to having a history of psychological disorders. Among the Muslim cohort, positive religious coping was inversely related to depressive symptoms and having a history of psychological disorders. Positive religious coping during infectious disease outbreaks may help some individuals reduce their risk of depressive illness. National pandemic preparedness plans may benefit from including a focus on religion and religious coping.

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“…Por su parte, la religiosidad puede ofrecer apoyo social (Salsman, Brown, Brechting, & Carlson, 2005;Willoughby, Cadigan, Burchinal, & Skinner, 2008) y estrategias de afrontamiento religiosas que se asocian a una mayor estabilidad emocional (Ahles, Mezulis, & Hudson, 2016;Koenig et al, 1990;Salmanpour & Issazadegan, 2012;Schnell, 2012).…”

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Religiosidad y espiritualidad en el marco del modelo de los cinco factores de la personalidad

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A pesar de que el vínculo entre la espiritualidad y los rasgos de la personalidad fue intensamente indagado en la literatura académica en los últimos años –particularmente en el marco del modelo y la teoría de los cinco factores de la personalidad, no existen trabajos de revisión que permitan sintetizar el estado del arte respecto de esta relación. Por este motivo, el propósito del presente trabajo es revisar los estudios que se proponen indagar los constructos numinosos en atención a las diferencias individuales a partir de una revisión sistemática de la bibliografía en las bases de datos PsycInfo, ERIC, Pubmed, CAIRN, CLASE, Scielo, Dialnet, Lilacs y Redalyc. De acuerdo con la revisión, si bien existe una considerable disparidad de resultados, generalmente se han reportado asociaciones positivas entre estos constructos y la apertura, la responsabilidad, la extroversión, y la amabilidad, y negativas con el neuroiticismo. Se concluye que la discrepancia en los resultados respondería a la multiplicidad de técnicas de evaluación disímiles empleadas para relevar la espiritualidad y la religiosidad.

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Religious coping as a moderator of the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms.

Cited by 41 publications

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Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

Positive Religious Coping and Mental Health among Christians and Muslims in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Religiosidad y espiritualidad en el marco del modelo de los cinco factores de la personalidad

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