The unique contributions of positive and negative religious coping to posttraumatic growth and PTSD.

Gerber, Mónica M.; Boals, Adriel; Schuettler, Darnell

doi:10.1037/a0023016

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“…These results comply with other findings related to strict correlations between coping through REL and PTG. 16 McMillen and Cook 17 showed that coping through turning to REL shows a significant relationship with positive outcomes of SCI.…”

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Posttraumatic growth in people with traumatic long-term spinal cord injury: predictive role of basic hope and coping

Byra

2015

Spinal Cord

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Study design: Participants with spinal cord injury (SCI) sustained at least 15 years before the study completed questionnaires measuring posttraumatic growth (PTG), basic hope and coping strategies. Objectives: To determine contribution of basic hope and coping strategies to accounting for PTG variability in participants with traumatic long-term SCI. Setting: Polish rehabilitation centres, foundations and associations implementing social inclusion and professional activation programmes. Participants were enrolled based on their medical history by trained rehabilitation specialists and psychologists. Methods: The set of questionnaires included the following: The Post-traumatic Growth Inventory; The Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced (COPE); and Basic Hope Inventory. Results: A study of 169 individuals with paraplegia in the range of PTG showed the highest degree of positive changes in appreciation of life (AL) and the lowest in self-perception. Regression analysis showed that coping strategies such as religion (REL), focus on the problem, humour, alcohol/drug use ideation and basic hope jointly account for 60% of variance of PTG. The highest contribution to accounting for this variability had REL. Also, it was found that coping strategies and basic hope allow to predict variance of individual growth aspects. Age at trauma exposure positively correlated with changes in AL and spiritual change. No significant relationship between growth and age of participants was confirmed. Conclusion: PTG occurring in people with long-term traumatic SCI is primarily manifested in increased AL. Specific coping strategies and basic hope have a significant role in fostering positive changes.

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Posttraumatic growth in people with traumatic long-term spinal cord injury: predictive role of basic hope and coping

Byra

2015

Spinal Cord

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“…Facing challenging situations, individuals draw on religious coping methods as a part of their general orienting and meaning systems, which in turn influence their abilities to cope with adversity and life stress [24,31]. It is especially discernable in coping with major stress situations e.g., among patients diagnosed with cancer [39] or people who experienced traumatic events [40]. The orienting and meaning systems appear to influence the types of coping strategies that are used in specific situations.…”

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The mediating role of coping in the relationships between religiousness and mental health.

Krok¹

2014

Arch Psych Psych

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The aim of this study was to assess the relationships between religiousness and mental health within the mediational perspective of religious coping. The existing empirical evidence indicates that specific aspects of religiousness are associated with mental health indices. Yet, less is known about the nature of these associations and mediating mechanisms between both factors. The theory of religious coping as a mediator was employed so as to explain how religiousness is linked with mental health and what mechanisms shape the associations. The results demonstrated that religious coping can be regarded as a mediator between religiousness and mental health dimensions. Religious coping is expressed in two main forms: positive and negative that are linked to positive and negative mental health outcomes, respectively. People draw on these two religious coping methods in times of major life crises in order to make sense of trauma and loss, and to alleviate stress. The theoretical analyses showed that when religiousness contains structures of orientation and meaning, it enables individuals to attain positive functioning and well-being that reflects mental health.

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“…For example, a positive between the experience of childhood abuse and PTS [31], it dampened the relationship between direct traumatic events and PTG [32], and it strengthened the relationship between stress and depression [33]. Positive RC also acts as a mediator or an explanatory process, but in an opposite way, because it partially mediated the relationship between gender and PTG [16], or it totally mediated the relationship between subject severity and PTG [8].…”

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Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

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Abstract:The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of positive and negative religious coping with posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) and growth (PTG). Their moderating role was also examined among predictors such as social support and the subjective severity of event with PTS and PTG. Two hundred and eleven Chilean adults (58.3% women) of 18 years and older who had been exposed to highly stressful were surveyed. The Brief-RCOPE, the Brief-COPE subscale of social support, the Subjective Severity of Event Scale, and a socio-demographic questionnaire were used as measurements at time one. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-short form (PTGI-SF) and Short Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview (SPRINT-E) was used to collect baseline scores and six months after. The results show that negative religious coping predicts the increase in PTS, positive religious coping predicts the increase in PTG and plays a moderation role: at low levels of positive religious coping it was found a strong association between coping by seeking social support and PTG, while at high level the association is weak. These results are discussed in the framework of the functionality of positive and negative religious coping and its role in adjusting to potentially traumatic events.

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The unique contributions of positive and negative religious coping to posttraumatic growth and PTSD.

Cited by 122 publications

References 46 publications

Posttraumatic growth in people with traumatic long-term spinal cord injury: predictive role of basic hope and coping

Posttraumatic growth in people with traumatic long-term spinal cord injury: predictive role of basic hope and coping

The mediating role of coping in the relationships between religiousness and mental health.

Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

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