Caregiver and divine support: Associations with resilience among adolescents following disclosure of sexual abuse

Gower, Tricia; Rancher, Caitlin; Campbell, Jeanine; Mahoney, Annette; Jackson, Mindy; McDonald, Renée; Jouriles, Ernest N.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104681

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“…As for the association with mental health problems, as previously described in reviews, subjects with low resilience are more likely to develop mental health problems (Gower et al, 2020;Villalobos-Otayza et al, 2019;Perales et al, 2019). The present study found a statistically significant association between having experienced some form of risk identified in either of the two blocks of the SRQ (questions one to twenty and twenty-one to twenty-five) and effects on the domains of resilience.…”

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Resilience, adverse childhood experiences, and mental health in Health Science students during the COVID-19 pandemic

2023

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Introduction. A steady rise in mental problems has been observed in the university population, particularly in the area of health, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Protective factors such as resilience and risk factors such as adverse events in childhood have been associated with mental health outcomes. Objective. Describe psychiatric symptoms and their association with adverse childhood experiences and resilience in first-semester students in the three undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Caldas, Colombia in 2020. Method. Descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study, using a virtual survey including the SRQ (Self Reporting Questionnaire), Wagnild and Young’s Resilience Scale and questions on adverse childhood experiences. Results. A total of 108 students with a mean age of 19.6 years participated in the study. Affective symptoms were found in 6.4% of subjects. The most frequent level of resilience was medium, while the most commonly reported adverse event was child abuse. An association was found between being exposed to adverse childhood experiences and the presence of symptoms that compromise mental health and alter one of the domains of resilience. A link was also found between the presence of these symptoms and the alteration of domains of resilience. Discussion and conclusion. It was possible to identify a risk of mental health disorders in students, and to establish an association between adverse events in childhood and resilience.

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Resilience, adverse childhood experiences, and mental health in Health Science students during the COVID-19 pandemic

2023

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“…Positive religious coping was associated with higher levels of resilience and perceived posttraumatic growth among emerging adults dealing with childhood abuse; negative religious coping was unrelated to each of those adaptive outcomes (Schaefer et al, 2018). Similarly, Gower et al (2020) reported that turning to God for support as measured by the RCOPE was associated with greater resilience following the trauma of adolescent sexual abuse. DeCaporale-Ryan et al (2013) studied forgiveness and religious coping with respect to the worst offense older women had experienced in their marriages.…”

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Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.

Voytenko¹,

Pargäment²,

Cowden³

et al. 2023

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Religious coping has emerged as a guiding paradigm for understanding ways in which religion shapes how people adapt to life’s most difficult experiences. Although research on religious coping has advanced substantially over the last two decades, there has been a disproportionate focus on noninterpersonal stressors with samples from predominantly Western societies. In this study, we draw on a relational spirituality perspective to examine religious coping in the aftermath of interpersonal hurts among participants from four non-Western countries. With samples from Colombia, Indonesia, South Africa, and Ukraine (N = 3,244), we examined associations of religious coping (as measured by the Brief RCOPE) with anxiety, depression, perceived posttraumatic growth, and well-being. The general patterns that emerged from the country-specific analyses of psychosocial correlates indicated that positive religious coping evidenced its strongest associations with indices of positive functioning (i.e., perceived posttraumatic growth and well-being), whereas negative religious coping yielded its strongest associations with indices of psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression). Hierarchical regressions for each country indicated that the dimensions of religious coping were incrementally associated with all indices of functioning, over and above variance explained by state forgiveness. Overall, the findings were largely comparable to those of prior research with samples from Western societies. Further cross-cultural research is needed to extend our understanding of the role of religious/spiritual coping in dealing with negative life events, particularly in non-Western cultures.

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“…A review of adolescents of transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) found that good relationships with family members (especially with parents), social support except for parents, and better school safety or inclusive school climate promoted their resilience (Tankersley et al, 2021 ). Even in some cases, divine support (support from God or a higher power) can help adolescents increase resilience (Gower et al, 2020 ). Based on these results, there was an effect of PCEs on peer victimization, resilience, and QoL.…”

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Resilience mediates the effect of peer victimization on quality of life in Chongqing adolescents: from a perspective of positive childhood experiences

Deng¹,

Yang²,

Wang³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundPeer victimization is a harmful experience that contributed to one's psychological problems, physical health deterioration, and so on. Quality of life (QoL) is an important indicator of adolescent health assessment. To identify potential pathways of positive experiences in preventing peer victimization's detrimental effects and then provide intervention ideas for adolescent health, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between peer victimization and QoL in Chongqing adolescents and discover whether resilience plays a mediating role and positive childhood experiences (PCEs) act as a moderating role in the relationship.MethodsData were the first follow-up of a cohort study conducted in four complete middle schools in two districts of Chongqing, China. Self-designed peer victimization items, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, the Adolescent Quality of Life Scale, and the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale were used. We investigated the differences and correlations in peer victimization, QoL, and resilience between the two PCEs groups. Mplus version 8.3 was used to analyze the mediating role of resilience and the moderating role of PCEs in peer victimization and QoL.ResultsPeer victimization, resilience, and QoL differed between the two PCEs groups (P < 0.001). Peer victimization negatively correlated with QoL and resilience, while resilience positively correlated with QoL (P < 0.001). In the models with total QOL as the dependent variable, the indirect effect was −0.431 (8.08% of the total effect) in the low-PCEs group vs. −2.077 (41.97% of the total effect) in the high-PCEs group. In the models with four dimensions of QOL as the dependent variable, the indirect effects ranged from −0.054 to −0.180 (6.07–12.95% of the total effects) in the low-PCEs group and from 0.295 to −0.823 in the high-PCEs group (35.89–68.76% of the total effects). Both total and indirect effects were significant (P < 0.05). In addition, the differences in indirect effects were significant between the two PCEs groups (P < 0.05), while differences in total and direct effects were almost not apparent.ConclusionResilience partially mediated the effect of peer victimization on QoL in Chongqing adolescents, and PCEs moderated this mediation. Schools, families, and society should focus on resilience intervention and prioritize the enhancement of PCEs for improving adolescent QoL.

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Caregiver and divine support: Associations with resilience among adolescents following disclosure of sexual abuse

Cited by 8 publications

References 64 publications

Resilience, adverse childhood experiences, and mental health in Health Science students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resilience, adverse childhood experiences, and mental health in Health Science students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Religious coping with interpersonal hurts: Psychosocial correlates of the brief RCOPE in four non-Western countries.

Resilience mediates the effect of peer victimization on quality of life in Chongqing adolescents: from a perspective of positive childhood experiences

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