Religious support buffers the indirect negative psychological effects of mass shooting in church-affiliated individuals.

Autor:	San Roman L; Division of Psychology and Counseling., Mosher DK; Department of Psychology., Hook JN; Department of Psychology., Captari LE; Department of Psychology., Aten JD; Department of Psychology., Davis EB; Department of Psychology., Van Tongeren DR; Department of Psychology., Davis DE; Department of Psychology., Heinrichsen H; Redeemer's Fellowship Church., Campbell CD; Department of Psychology.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy [Psychol Trauma] 2019 Sep; Vol. 11 (6), pp. 571-577. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Mar 07.
DOI:	10.1037/tra0000448
Abstrakt:	Objective: Religion has been shown to protect against the negative effects of traumatic events. The current pilot study explored the extent to which religious support (i.e., sense of comfort and support from the Sacred, religious leaders, and fellow faith participants) buffered against the indirect negative psychological symptoms (i.e., religious/spiritual struggle, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) following the 2015 mass shooting on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Method: The study examined 34 individuals (12 male, 22 female) that were indirectly affected by the mass shooting (i.e., did not directly witness the shooting and were not physically harmed by the shooting), recruited from the surrounding religious community. Participants completed measures of resource loss, religious support, religious and spiritual struggle, depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms. Results: Religious support buffered the relationship between resource loss and negative psychological symptoms for religious and spiritual struggle, depression, and PTSD symptoms but not anxiety. Conclusions: Religious and spiritual support may be an important factor for helping church-affiliated individuals cope with the negative effects of resource loss that occur when a community is affected by a mass shooting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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