The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

Gibbons, Jeffrey A.; Hartzler, Jennifer K.; Hartzler, Andrew W.; Lee, Sherman A.; Walker, W. Richard

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.07.004

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“…Negative religious coping, on the other hand, is maladaptive and interprets challenges as a result of punishment and divine dissent [13]. Positive religious coping, however, has been shown to be less impactful on mental health as several studies have proved that negative religious coping had more merit in predicting anxiety and depression compared to positive religious coping [11,14,15].…”

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Religious Coping, Religiosity, Depression and Anxiety among Medical Students in a Multi-Religious Setting

Francis

Gill

Han

et al. 2019

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Medical students are vulnerable to depression and anxiety due to the nature of their academic life. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms among medical students and the association between religious coping, religiosity and socio-demographic factors with anxiety and depressive symptoms. A cross sectional design was used for this study. Scales used were the Malay version of the Duke Religious Index (DUREL-M), the Malay version of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE) and the Malay version Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS-M). 622 students participated in this study. They scored moderately on the organized (mean: 3.51) and non-organized religious (mean: 3.85) subscales of the DUREL, but had high intrinsic religiosity (mean: 12.18). The prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms were 4.7% and 17.4% respectively, which is lower than local as well as international data. Islam, negative religious coping and the presence of depressive symptoms were significantly associated with anxiety symptoms. Only the presence of anxiety symptoms was significantly associated with depressive symptoms. Negative religious coping, rather than positive religious coping, has significant association with depressive and anxiety symptoms. Redirecting focus towards negative religious coping is imperative to boost mental health outcomes among medical students.

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Religious Coping, Religiosity, Depression and Anxiety among Medical Students in a Multi-Religious Setting

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Gill

Han

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“…The current study included only responses with no missing data, resulting in complete responses from 311 undergraduate students at a small, liberal arts university in the southeast of the US. This sample size is typical in studies examining the FAB across specific event types and comparison control events (e.g., Gibbons et al, 2013; Gibbons et al, 2015; Gibbons et al, 2016; Gibbons et al, 2017). The students, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years old ( M = 19.161, SE = 0.026), were primarily recruited from introductory psychology courses and given course credit (when participation was a mandatory assignment in the class) or extra credit (when participation was not a mandatory assignment in the class) for their participation.…”

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“…The FAB occurs within 24 hr, it persists for 3 months (Gibbons, Lee, & Walker, 2011), it increases after 3 months (Walker et al, 1997), and it is related to individual difference variables (Skowronski, Walker, Henderson, & Bond, 2014). The FAB is a generalizable phenomenon that persists across cultures (Ritchie, Walker, Marsh, Hart, & Skowronski, 2014) and event types including alcohol (Gibbons et al, 2013), religion (Gibbons, Hartzler, Hartzler, Lee, & Walker, 2015), death (Gibbons et al, 2016; Gibbons, Lee, Fehr, Wilson, & Marshall, 2018), social media (Gibbons et al, 2017), and videogames (Gibbons & Bouldin, 2019). The researchers studying the FAB argue that it makes life pleasant by reducing the effects of unpleasant events, maintaining the effects of pleasant events, and helping people seek pleasant experiences (Ritchie, Walker, et al,; Walker & Skowronski, 2009; Walker, Skowronski, & Thompson, 2003).…”

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“…Specifically, the FAB is negatively related to alcohol consumption (Gibbons et al, 2013), dysphoria (Walker, Skowronski, Gibbons, Vogl, & Thompson, 2003), dispositional mood (Ritchie, Skowronski, Harnett, Wells, & Walker, 2009), state anxiety (Gibbons et al, 2017), trait anxiety (Walker, Yancu, & Skowronski, 2014), narcissism (Ritchie, Walker, et al, 2014), as well as parental abuse (Skowronski et al, 2016) and eating disorders (Ritchie, Kitsch, Dromey, & Skowronski, 2018). Conversely, the FAB is positively related to positive religious coping (Gibbons et al, 2015), death accepting attitudes (Gibbons et al, 2016), and self‐esteem (Gibbons et al, 2017).…”

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Conservatism positively predicted fading affect bias in the 2016USpresidential election at low, but not high, levels of negative affect

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LeRoy

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Unpleasant affect fades faster than pleasant affect and this Fading Affect Bias (FAB) phenomenon is positively related to healthy outcomes and negatively related to unhealthy outcomes, which makes the FAB a healthy coping process/reaction. Rehearsal seems to be the cognitive mechanism responsible for the FAB. Although the FAB and its relation to healthy outcomes and rehearsal have been examined in many contexts, they have not been evaluated in the realm of politics. Therefore, we

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“…Walker et al, (2003a) later deemed this pattern of fading affect the fading affect bias (FAB) [3]. Recent research showed consistent FAB effects across event types [15,16], which suggests that the FAB is a general, healthy/pleasant coping outcome. As the FAB is a healthy outcome, some researchers argue that it may enhance pleasantness [4,17] by helping people pursue pleasant experiences and avoid unpleasant ones [2].…”

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Grief and Avoidant Death Attitudes Combine to Predict the Fading Affect Bias

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Lee

Fehr

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The fading affect bias (FAB) occurs when unpleasant affect fades faster than pleasant affect. To detect mechanisms that influence the FAB in the context of death, we measured neuroticism, depression, anxiety, negative religious coping, death attitudes, and complicated grief as potential predictors of FAB for unpleasant/death and pleasant events at 2 points in time. The FAB was robust across older and newer events, which supported the mobilization-minimization hypothesis. Unexpectedly, complicated grief positively predicted FAB, and death avoidant attitudes moderated this relation, such that the Initial Event Affect by Grief interaction was only significant at the highest 3 quintiles of death avoidant attitudes. These results were likely due to moderate grief ratings, which were, along with avoidant death attitudes, related to healthy outcomes in past research. These results implicate complicated grief and death avoidant attitudes as resiliency mechanisms that are mobilized during bereavement to minimize its unpleasant effects.

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The Fading Affect Bias shows healthy coping at the general level, but not the specific level for religious variables across religious and non-religious events

Cited by 23 publications

References 49 publications

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Religious Coping, Religiosity, Depression and Anxiety among Medical Students in a Multi-Religious Setting

Conservatism positively predicted fading affect bias in the 2016USpresidential election at low, but not high, levels of negative affect

Grief and Avoidant Death Attitudes Combine to Predict the Fading Affect Bias

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