When Meaning Matters: Coping Mediates the Relationship of Religiosity and Illness Appraisal with Well-Being in Older Cancer Patients

Krok, Dariusz; Brudek, Paweł; Steuden, Stanisława

doi:10.1080/10508619.2018.1556061

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“…In other words, fear of COVID-19, which reflects anxiety and worry about the danger of the coronavirus pandemic, makes it easy for young people to use religious resources. In addition, fear of COVID-19 can prompt late adolescents to use specific religious resources, for example, those which are based on meaning or values (Krok et al, 2019 ; Park, 2013 ). They are likely to enable individuals to understand the situation from a different perspective and provide ultimate motivation.…”

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“…Examining young people who had experienced a serious traumatic event within the framework of the model, Park and Gutierrez ( 2013 ) found that personal beliefs in God were positively associated with happiness but not with life satisfaction. The relationship between the religious meaning system and psychological well-being was also mediated through two coping strategies: problem-focussed and meaning-focussed in older cancer patients, which was thus interpreted from a meaning-making perspective (Krok et al, 2019 ). Taking into account that the stage of late adolescence is connected with substantial shifts in religious beliefs and behaviour and searching for life goals, young people’s well-being can be particularly sensitive to any changes and reinterpretations in their global meaning.…”

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Religiosity, Meaning-Making and the Fear of COVID-19 Affecting Well-Being Among Late Adolescents in Poland: A Moderated Mediation Model

2021

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Adolescents have come to be greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment measures in recent months. The aim of the present study was to examine the relations among religiosity, meaning-making, fear of COVID-19, and subjective well-being within a moderated mediation model. Three hundred and sixteen late adolescents (173 women and 143 men) in Poland volunteered to take part in the study. The results show that meaning-making mediated relationships between religiosity and life satisfaction, religiosity and positive affect, and religiosity and negative affect. In addition, these mediation effects were moderated by the fear of COVID-19. Specifically, the indirect effects were stronger for adolescents with high fear than for those with low fear, which indicates that fear of COVID-19 serves as a ‘warning’ factor.

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Religiosity, Meaning-Making and the Fear of COVID-19 Affecting Well-Being Among Late Adolescents in Poland: A Moderated Mediation Model

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“…Only the subscale of benefit was found to have an unsatisfactory internal consistency ( α = 0.55); hence, the scores of this subscale were excluded from further analysis. This questionnaire has already been validated in studies with patients suffering from various diseases, e.g., psoriasis (Janowski et al, 2014), multiple sclerosis (Ogińska-Bulik and Michalska, 2016), and cancer (Krok and Telka, 2018; Krok et al, 2019).…”

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Social support and psychosocial functioning in women after mastectomy

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Pall Supp Care

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AbstractObjectiveSocial support has been reported as beneficial for the psychological functioning of people coping with a disease. The objective of this study was to verify whether levels of perceived social support are associated with psychosocial functioning in women who have had a mastectomy and whether specific types of social support are linked to specific indices of functioning.MethodSeventy women with a history of mastectomy completed questionnaires measuring their psychosocial functioning as related to their health status: Disease-Related Appraisal Scale, Acceptance of Life with the Disease Scale and Beck Depression Inventory. All participants also completed a measure of perceived social support (Disease-Related Social Support Scale).ResultsWomen who reported higher levels of perceived social support revealed statistically significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms, higher appraisals of their disease in terms of challenge and value, and lower appraisals of their disease in terms of obstacle/loss. Women with greater social support also revealed higher levels of acceptance of life with the disease compared to those with less social support. Regression analyses showed that spiritual support was the type of support that significantly accounted for the variance in the majority of functioning indices. Some indices of functioning were also significantly accounted for by emotional and instrumental support.Significance of the resultsThe process of psychological adjustment to a life-threatening disease such as breast cancer depends on multiple variables; however, social support, including spiritual support, seems to be one significant contributor to this process.

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“…It leaves a trace on human life. The understanding of abandonment by God can be also analyzed within the religious meaning system (e.g., Krok 2014 ; Krok et al 2019 ) as it bears relevance from a cognitive point of view. The religious meaning system reflects the fact that religion enables individuals to explain and interpret reality in the categories of significance and purpose.…”

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Psychological Analysis of Religiosity and Spirituality: Construction of the Scale of Abandonment by God (SAG)

Głaz

2021

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The issue of religiosity and spirituality and their measurement are quite well developed fields in the psychology of religion. However, the literature shows a lack of research tools to measure the religious experience of the feeling of abandonment by God among followers of the Catholic religion. The purpose of this article is to fulfill this gap through the presentation of the notion of ‘God abandonment’, and its operationalization, by constructing the Scale of Abandonment by God: SAG (Skala Opuszczenia Przez Boga—SOPB). The psychometric value of the tool was evaluated, that is the reliability and validity. In order to achieve this goal, three stages of instrument development (item generation, scale development, and instrument testing) were undertaken in three studies. Stage 1: The pilot study concerned the development of positive statements about the concept of the Catholic experience of God (i.e., the subjective feeling of the experience of God's abandonment in the life of a contemporary person, as well as showing to what extent this belief can affect some aspects of his/her life). Stage 2: Was designed to perform exploratory factor analysis and test–retest reliability to assess stability of the SAG in a three-week time range. Stage 3: Validation of the SAG by Confirmatory Factor Analysis was performed. Result: The SAG can be recognized as a one-factor measure of the feeling of abandonment by God. Because the content of the SAG items indicate the positive aspects of the abandonment of God, this can assist people living in Catholic societies.

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When Meaning Matters: Coping Mediates the Relationship of Religiosity and Illness Appraisal with Well-Being in Older Cancer Patients

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Religiosity, Meaning-Making and the Fear of COVID-19 Affecting Well-Being Among Late Adolescents in Poland: A Moderated Mediation Model

Religiosity, Meaning-Making and the Fear of COVID-19 Affecting Well-Being Among Late Adolescents in Poland: A Moderated Mediation Model

Social support and psychosocial functioning in women after mastectomy

Psychological Analysis of Religiosity and Spirituality: Construction of the Scale of Abandonment by God (SAG)

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