Religious support and religious struggle as predictors of quality of life in alkoholics anonymous: Moderation by duration of abstinence

Zarzycka, Beata; Ziółkowska, Dominika A.; Śliwak, Jacek

doi:10.18290/rpsych.2017.20.1-4en

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“…Furthermore, religious struggle, just like the other forms of religiosity, occurs around the world and across different religious groups. Empirical studies confirm the existence of religious problems and tensions among Christians (Bryant and Astin 2008;Büssing et al 2013Büssing et al , 2016Büssing et al , 2017aBüssing et al , b, 2018Carter 2019;Łowicki and Zajenkowski 2017;Szcześniak et al 2019;Zarzycka 2018;Zarzycka et al 2017), Muslims (Abu-Raiya et al 2008, 2015, 2018Ai et al 2003), Jews (Abu-Raiya et al 2016;Pirutinsky et al 2011;Pirutinsky and Rosmarin 2018;Rosmarin et al 2009Rosmarin et al , 2017, Hindus (Benson et al 2011;Exline et al 2017;Simha et al 2013;Tarakeshwar et al 2003), and atheists or agnostic samples (Bradley et al 2016;Sedlar et al 2018).…”

Section: Religious Strugglementioning

confidence: 87%

Religious Struggle and Life Satisfaction Among Adult Christians: Self-esteem as a Mediator

Szczęśniak

Timoszyk-Tomczak

2020

J Relig Health

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The religious dimension of life represents an important source of human strength, meaning, and coping for many people. However, the religious life is not always “smooth and easy” and can be associated with weak personal adjustment, poorer psychological well-being, and lower satisfaction. Yet, besides the direct relationship between these variables, some researchers postulate the existence of an indirect association that has not been fully explained by various psychosocial mediators. The aim of the present study was to verify whether self-esteem could be a potential mediator between religious strain and life satisfaction. The sample consisted of 607 adult Christians (49.6% women) aged between 18 and 79. We used the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Consistent with our hypotheses, life satisfaction positively correlated with religious comfort and was negatively associated with fear/guilt, negative emotions toward God, and negative social interactions surrounding religion. The same pattern of results was shown in the case of self-esteem. Moreover, the outcomes obtained from bootstrap sampling (5000) with a 95% confidence interval indicated a significant role of self-esteem as a mediator in all of the relationships between: (1) religious comfort and life satisfaction; (2) fear/guilt and life satisfaction; (3) negative emotions toward God and life satisfaction; and (4) negative social interactions surrounding religion and life satisfaction.

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Section: Religious Strugglementioning

confidence: 87%

Religious Struggle and Life Satisfaction Among Adult Christians: Self-esteem as a Mediator

Szczęśniak

Timoszyk-Tomczak

2020

J Relig Health

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“…Moreover, religious comfort is positively correlated with satisfaction considered as a component of life quality. Those individuals who perceive faith as a source of strength and rely on God's help report greater well-being (Büssing and Mundle 2009;Zarzycka et al 2017). Conversely, preserving negative feelings of guilt/fear towards God and community decreases life satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Correspondingly, results derived from an ongoing nationwide survey in the United States among participants at least 66 years old (Krause 2015) showed that greater religious doubt was associated with less life satisfaction. In the Alcoholics Anonymous group, Zarzycka et al (2017) observed that religious comfort correlated positively with the general assessment of quality of life (r = 0.52, p < 0.001) and life satisfaction (r = 0.41, p < 0.001). Fear/guilt and negative emotions towards God correlated negatively with quality of life (r = −0.29, p < 0.01; r = −0.36, p < 0.001).…”

Section: Life Satisfaction and R/s Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Religious comfort estimates the sense of trust in God, and feeling God as omnipotent and caring. It assesses perceiving faith as a source of strength, meaning, and purpose in life (Zarzycka et al 2017). The subscale of fear and guilt concerns a preoccupation with one's own misdeeds and feelings of being unforgiven by God.…”

Section: Assessment Of the Religious Comfort And Strain Scale (Rcss)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction among Young Roman Catholics: The Mediating Role of Gratitude

Szczęśniak¹,

Bielecka²,

Bajkowska³

et al. 2019

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An extensive review of the psychological literature shows that interactions between religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles and other aspects of human functioning are complex and affected by “third” factors. Still, we have only a few studies that confirm R/S struggles as a source of well-being and indicate the ways in which it happens. In the present study, we aimed to verify whether the relationship between R/S struggles and life satisfaction was mediated by dispositional gratitude that seems to offer protection in times of adversity and turmoil. The sample consisted of 440 Roman Catholics (331 women) from Poland aged between 18 and 40. We applied the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Gratitude Questionnaire. In line with our hypotheses, it was confirmed that respondents with higher life satisfaction were more likely to display a higher sense of trust in God. They also declared a lower fear/guilt and perception of God as abandoning people. Gratitude correlated positively and significantly with religious comfort, and negatively with emotions towards God and social interactions surrounding religion. Moreover, it can be affirmed that dispositional gratitude mediated the relationship between three of four dimensions of religious strain and life satisfaction: religious comfort, negative emotions towards God, and negative social interactions surrounding religion.

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“…Even after controlling for personality factors, interest in religion, intrinsic and extrinsic-personal religiosity are still reasonably strong predictors of happiness and life satisfaction (Aghababaei 2014). Some authors (Emmons 2005;Krok 2014;ten Kate et al 2017;Zarzycka et al 2017) pointed out that being religious provides a sense of meaning and security, offering an important benefit to satisfaction with life. On the bases of these theoretical and empirical promises, we assumed that religiosity might be an intermediating variable in the relationship between personality traits and life satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Religiosity

2019

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Extensive empirical research conducted up till now has confirmed that personality represents one of the most significant predictors of life satisfaction. Still, no studies to date have empirically tested the path of influence from personality traits to religiosity and the effects of both on life satisfaction/positivity within the same model. In the current study, we aimed to verify whether the relationship between personality and satisfaction/positivity was mediated by religiousness, as it is considered motivational in nature. The sample consisted of 213 participants (72% women) aged between 18 and 75. The average age was approx. 32. We used the following tools: the NEO Five Factor Inventory, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Positivity Scale, the Personal Religiousness Scale, and the Intensity of Religious Attitude Scale. Our hypotheses (H1 and H2) found their confirmation to a large degree. In fact, life satisfaction positively correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Moreover, life satisfaction negatively correlated with neuroticism. A similar pattern of results, even slightly stronger, was found in the case of positivity and personality traits. Contrary to our assumptions, neither life satisfaction nor positivity correlated with openness to experience. Extraversion and agreeableness correlated positively with religious attitude, personal religiousness and its four dimensions. Conscientiousness correlated positively only with faith, personal religiousness, and religious attitude. We also found negative and significant correlations between openness and all of the dimensions of personal religiousness. A lack of correlation was found between: (1) neuroticism and all of the dimensions of religiosity; (2) conscientiousness and religious practices, and religious self. Our research offers a contribution to the field by providing evidence that some personality traits predict life satisfaction/positivity because respondents display a personal religiousness/religious attitude.

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Religious support and religious struggle as predictors of quality of life in alkoholics anonymous: Moderation by duration of abstinence

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Religious Struggle and Life Satisfaction Among Adult Christians: Self-esteem as a Mediator

Religious Struggle and Life Satisfaction Among Adult Christians: Self-esteem as a Mediator

Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction among Young Roman Catholics: The Mediating Role of Gratitude

Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Religiosity

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