Reliance on God’s Help Scale as a Measure of Religious Trust—A Summary of Findings

Büssing, Arndt; Recchia, Daniela Rodrigues; Baumann, Klaus

doi:10.3390/rel6041358

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“…[41] Spirituality causes calm, vitality, and compatibility with chronic disease in the elderly. [42] In our study, trust in God was a way to deal with hypertension that is line with the result of one other study,[43] but another research[44] showed reliance on God's help was not generally associated with health-related quality of life. Faith is conceptualized as the individual's strength of belief in a higher power.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Self-Actualization: Self-Care outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension

Gholamnejad

Darvishpoor-Kakhki

Ahmadi

et al. 2019

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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Background: This study aims to analyze the experiences of older patients with hypertension to realize the outcomes of their self-care behaviors for controlling hypertension. Materials and Methods: This is a qualitative research with a conventional content analysis approach. The participants consisting of 23 people were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews until data were saturated. Granheim and Lundman's conventional content analysis was applied to analyze the data. Results: After data analysis, four main categories including self-efficacy, active lifestyle, spirituality, and stress management were obtained. These categories show the experience and outcomes of self-care behaviors among elderly patients with hypertension. Conclusions: Awareness of the elderly of their potentials and role in disease control in addition to relying on the power of spirituality provides positive results in hypertension management. Self-actualization of the elderly resulted in resisting against the destructive effects of internal and external stress and moving in the direction of growth. Health professionals should be vigilant to encourage and promote education about the importance and advantages of self-care for elderlies.

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confidence: 89%

Self-Actualization: Self-Care outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension

Gholamnejad

Darvishpoor-Kakhki

Ahmadi

et al. 2019

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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“…Secondly, a similar pattern of results can be observed between R/S struggles and gratitude. In this respect, Büssing and colleagues (Büssing et al 2015) show that reliance on God's help correlates strongly with gratitude and awe. Other studies (Aghababaei et al 2018) illustrate that religion may facilitate gratitude.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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“…To measure also a more specific forms of religiosity, we added item A37 from the Reliance on God’s Help scale [ 23 ], which asks whether faith is a strong hold in difficult times. Agreement or disagreement was scored on a 3-point scale (0—disagreement; 2—indifference; 3—agreement).…”

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Perceived changes of specific attitudes, perceptions and behaviors during the Corona pandemic and their relation to wellbeing

Büssing

Recchia

Hein

et al. 2020

Health Qual Life Outcomes

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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, most people had to cope with the restrictions of the lockdown, leaving them to their fears, insecurity and isolation. On the other hand, due to the unexpected ‘extra time’ there was room for new experiences and for personal reflections on what is essential in life, to perceive nature and relations more consciously etc. We, therefore, intended to analyze perceived changes of attitudes and behaviors during the time of lockdown, and whether these perceptions would contribute to personal wellbeing during the pandemic. Methods An anonym cross-sectional online survey was performed for data collection, using standardized questionnaires, i.e., the WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5), Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale (BMLSS), Awe/Gratitude scale (GrAw-7), and the newly developed Perceived Changes Questionnaire (PCQ). Results Within the number of respondents (n = 1277), women were predominating (67.5%). Participants’ mean age was 50.9 ± 14.9 years. Exploratory factor analyses showed that the 24-item Perceived Changes Questionnaire differentiated five factors that would account for 61% of variance: (1) Nature/Silence/Contemplation (Cronbach’s alpha = .87), (2) Spirituality (Cronbach’s alpha = .83), (3) Relationships (Cronbach’s alpha = .80), (4) Reflection on life (Cronbach’s alpha = .74), (5) Digital media usage (Cronbach’s alpha = .74). Strongest changes were observed for Relationships and Nature/Silence/Contemplation. Perceived changes were stronger among older persons, among persons with higher wellbeing, and among those who relied on their faith as a resource. These changes were predicted best by a person’s perception of wondering awe in distinct situations with subsequent feelings of gratitude. Stepwise regression analyzes revealed that participants’ wellbeing was explained best by low perceived burden and high life satisfaction (R2 = .46). Awe/gratitude, perceived changes in terms of Nature/Silence/Contemplation and low Reflections of live are further variables that would predict a person’s wellbeing among the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions During the Corona pandemic, people tried to find ways to adapt to the outcomes of the restrictions. The perceived changes of attitudes and behaviors can be interpreted in terms of a reappraisal strategy. These can be measured with the extended version of the PCQ which was found to have good quality indices and a plausible factor structure. The reported changes contribute to persons’ wellbeing only to some extend, indicating that they represent an independent quality of relevance in peoples’ life.

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Reliance on God’s Help Scale as a Measure of Religious Trust—A Summary of Findings

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Self-Actualization: Self-Care outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension

Self-Actualization: Self-Care outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension

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

Perceived changes of specific attitudes, perceptions and behaviors during the Corona pandemic and their relation to wellbeing

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