Spirituality and subjective well-being of Ghanaian parents of children with special needs: The mediating role of resilience

Dey, Nutifafa Eugene Yaw; Amponsah, Benjamin; Wiafe-Akenteng, Charles Brenya

doi:10.1177/1359105319873956

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“…In the same light as the previous paragraph, Gerson [60] reported that spirituality predicted PSS, resilience, and life satisfaction and added that spirituality was a more robust predictor of resilience than PSS, which required positive emotions to mediate its contribution on resilience. Confirming that, Dey et al [61] advocated that a greater level of spirituality predicted greater resilience, which explains the further link to greater levels of life satisfaction and positive affect. Almost similarly, studies on resilience in nations with recent war history disclosed that spirituality predicted resilience through the decreased aggressive behaviour [62].…”

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Post-locked down mental wellbeing among Malaysian adults: factors of life satisfaction in urban Malaysia

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Kurian

2022

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Under the enforcement of the recovery movement control order (RMCO), citizens of Malaysia were allowed to commute for work with tight protocols of social distancing. In this period of time, most individuals were adjusting to the new norm after being locked down for about six weeks. With an assumption that the social dynamics could have been different from the pre-pandemic era, this study aims to investigate how mattering predicts life satisfaction among individuals who live in the urban area of western Malaysia in the aforementioned timeframe. The role of other variables, namely perceived social support (PSS), resilience, and spirituality was also investigated. Data was collected from 402 adults between 18 and 66 years of age (M=25.44) who reside in the urban areas of Malaysia. A moderated serial mediation hypothesis was tested by employing the Bootstrap method in PROCESS Macro model 92. Our findings suggested that resilience does not play a significant role in the equation due to its insignificance in predicting life satisfaction after controlling the rest of the variables.

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Post-locked down mental wellbeing among Malaysian adults: factors of life satisfaction in urban Malaysia

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2022

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“…Reasons given for this stark disparity include the peculiar behavioural problems exhibited by children with Autism Spectrum disorder and symptom severity ( Dieleman et al., 2018 ; Rivard et al., 2014 ). Amid these struggles and emotional turmoil, some parents have emerged stronger by employing adaptive coping and protective resources like religiosity, spirituality, hope, optimism and social support ( Dey et al., 2019 ; Trute et al., 2010 ).…”

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Sources of perceived social support on resilience amongst parents raising children with special needs in Ghana

Dey

Amponsah

2020

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Background: While parenting a child with special needs is burdensome, some parents do overcome through protective resources. Social support has been widely linked to this unique ability to overcome the challenges of raising a child with special needs. In spite of this, there is still paucity of research about the influence of the sources of perceived social support on this ability, known as resilience. Aim: This study examined three sources of perceived social support-family, friends and significant other-on the resilience of Ghanaian parents raising children with special needs while adjusting for covariates (parental gender, marital status and educational level). Methods: One hundred and seven (107) biological parents were recruited from special schools and parents support groups in Accra, Ghana. They completed paper-and-pencil or online questionnaires on resilience and perceived social support. Results: Output from hierarchical multiple regression after adjusting for covariates showed that only support from significant others predicted resilience. Additionally, being married was positively and holding a higher education was inversely associated with resilience. Conclusion and implication: These findings indicate the importance of support from significant others in the resiliency of parents but underscore the need to fully integrate and emphasize support from the other sources in resilience enhancing interventions.

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“…To assess the mechanisms of well-being production requires observing change within people who differ in theoretically relevant ways and assessing how their lives turn out (Garssen and Visser, 2016). However, previous investigations of spirituality and well-being, including high-quality reviews and meta-analyses, have nearly exclusively relied on cross-sectional samples (Ano and Vasconcelles, 2005; Hackney and Sanders, 2003; Jan et al, 2020; Sawatzky et al, 2005; Smith et al, 2003; Visser et al, 2010; Yonker et al, 2012), and have sampled from small sub-populations such as older adults (Lawler-Row and Elliott, 2009), urban African American women (Holt et al, 2003), rural Kenyan men (Goodman et al, 2020), and Ghanaian parents of children with special needs (Dey et al, 2019). Such limitations have been evident over 20 years (see, e.g.…”

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National longitudinal evidence for growth in subjective well-being from spiritual beliefs

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Previous research finds an association between spirituality and subjective well-being. However, the widespread use of poorly defined concepts of spirituality, tautological spirituality scales, and heavy reliance on cross-sectional samples cast doubts on prior findings. Here, we leverage ten waves of panel data from a nationally diverse longitudinal study to systematically test whether having spiritual beliefs leads to growth in personal well-being and life satisfaction ( N = 3257, New Zealand, 2010–2020). Contrary to previous research, we find that belief in a spirit or life force predicts lower personal well-being and life satisfaction. However, in support of previous speculation, belief (relative to disbelief) in a spirit or life force predicts increasing personal well-being and life satisfaction over time. These findings are robust even while accounting for known demographic influences; they even hold among those who believe in a God but disbelieve in a spirit or life force. The recent growth in spiritual beliefs and decline in traditional religion across many industrial societies motivates further causal investigations of the mechanisms by which spiritual beliefs lead to growth in subjective well-being.

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Spirituality and subjective well-being of Ghanaian parents of children with special needs: The mediating role of resilience

Cited by 18 publications

References 41 publications

Post-locked down mental wellbeing among Malaysian adults: factors of life satisfaction in urban Malaysia

Post-locked down mental wellbeing among Malaysian adults: factors of life satisfaction in urban Malaysia

Sources of perceived social support on resilience amongst parents raising children with special needs in Ghana

National longitudinal evidence for growth in subjective well-being from spiritual beliefs

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