Perceived Stress as a Mediator between Social Support, Religiosity, and Flourishing among Older Adults

Abstract

This study was designed to examine the relationships between social support, perceived stress, religiosity, and flourishing and to test the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationships between social support and religiosity with flourishing. This study also examines the moderating roles of religiosity and gender in the relationship between social support and flourishing among 2301 Malaysian older adults. Structural Equation Modelling showed that older adults with high levels of social support, high levels of intrinsic religious motivation, high levels of extrinsic religious motivation, and low levels of perceived stress were more likely to experience flourishing. Bootstrapping analysis provided evidence of perceived stress as a significant partial mediator in the links between social support, intrinsic religious motivation, and extrinsic religious motivation with flourishing. Multi-group analysis revealed that religiosity and gender 81 PERCEIVED STRESS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, RELIGIOSITY, AND WELL-BEING Archive for the Psychology of Religion 40 (2018) 80-103 acted as significant moderators in the links between social support, perceived stress, and flourishing.

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“…Literally, in the Islamic spiritual concept, the term religiosity means the level of obedience/belief (tawakkul and monotheism) to God (Allah SWT), also the level of ma'rifat which means to believe in the heart, practice goodness by the teachings of Islam and stay away from all that is prohibited by God (Allah SWT) (Huda et al, 2019;Meiyani & Putra, 2019). It is believed that the elaboration between one's Islamic commitment will have a positive impact on one's daily life, on the environment (Bhuian, Sharma, Butt, & Ahmed, 2018), society (Kamalul et al, 2016Holland, 2014) and social life (Onyemah, Rouziès, & Iacobucci, 2018) which is reflected through honest behavior (Kashif et al, 2017), responsibility (Mensah & Azila-Gbettor, 2018), respect for the rights of others (Papyrakis & Selvaretnam, 2011), fair (Abdollahi et al, 2018) and transparent (Karami, Olfati, & Dubinsky, 2014). The level of individual religiosity moderates the relationship between honesty to achieve a rewarding attitude and employee involvement (Bhuian et al, 2018;Abdollahi et al, 2018;Khalid et al, 2020).…”

“…It is believed that the elaboration between one's Islamic commitment will have a positive impact on one's daily life, on the environment (Bhuian, Sharma, Butt, & Ahmed, 2018), society (Kamalul et al, 2016Holland, 2014) and social life (Onyemah, Rouziès, & Iacobucci, 2018) which is reflected through honest behavior (Kashif et al, 2017), responsibility (Mensah & Azila-Gbettor, 2018), respect for the rights of others (Papyrakis & Selvaretnam, 2011), fair (Abdollahi et al, 2018) and transparent (Karami, Olfati, & Dubinsky, 2014). The level of individual religiosity moderates the relationship between honesty to achieve a rewarding attitude and employee involvement (Bhuian et al, 2018;Abdollahi et al, 2018;Khalid et al, 2020). The level of religiosity will reflect the level of satisfaction and happiness in working and employee involvement (Onyemah et al, 2018).…”

Key factors of business sustainability: Strengthening leadership, psychology, and fairness aspects from an Islamic-management perspective

“…The term "religiosity" in the context of Islam refers to one's level of obedience to and belief in (tawakkul and monotheistic) Allah (SWT) as well as on ma'rifat which is the Arabic word for "to believe in one's heart, to practice goodness in accordance with the teachings of Islam and to avoid everything that is forbidden" (Huda, Sudrajat, Muhamat, Mat Teh, & Jalal, 2019;Nguyen, Chou, Blankson, & Wilson, 2020). It is believed that the elaboration of one's Islamic level will have a positive impact on one's daily life on the environment, society (Holland, 2016) and community (Onyemah, Rouzies, & Iacobucci, 2018) which is reflected through honest behaviour (Kashif, Zarkada, & Thurasamy, 2017), responsibility (Mensah & Azila-Gbettor, 2018), respect for the rights of others (Papyrakis & Selvaretnam, 2011), fairness (Abdollahi, Hosseinian, Sadeghi, & Hamid, 2018) and transparency (Karami, Olfati, & Dubinsky, 2014). The level of personal religiosity moderates the relationship between the attitude of being honest to earn rewards and worker involvement (Abdollahi et al, 2018;Bhuian, Sharma, Butt, & Ahmed, 2018;Khalid, Mirza, Bin-Feng, & Saeed, 2020).…”

“…It is believed that the elaboration of one's Islamic level will have a positive impact on one's daily life on the environment, society (Holland, 2016) and community (Onyemah, Rouzies, & Iacobucci, 2018) which is reflected through honest behaviour (Kashif, Zarkada, & Thurasamy, 2017), responsibility (Mensah & Azila-Gbettor, 2018), respect for the rights of others (Papyrakis & Selvaretnam, 2011), fairness (Abdollahi, Hosseinian, Sadeghi, & Hamid, 2018) and transparency (Karami, Olfati, & Dubinsky, 2014). The level of personal religiosity moderates the relationship between the attitude of being honest to earn rewards and worker involvement (Abdollahi et al, 2018;Bhuian, Sharma, Butt, & Ahmed, 2018;Khalid, Mirza, Bin-Feng, & Saeed, 2020). The religiosity level will reflect the satisfaction and happiness of working and employee involvement (Onyemah et al, 2018).…”

The dynamics of flourishing Indonesian Muslim families: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

“…Among Christians, spiritual practices promote commitment to social flourishing (Perkins, 2021;Santos, 2017;Setran, 2018). Individuals with a higher level of religiosity tend to have a higher level of flourishing compared to those with a low level of religiosity (Abdollahi et al, 2018). Besides religiosity, family involvement in traditional activities positively affects mental health in Native American Indian ethnicities (Kading et al, 2015).…”