The Role of Religious Comfort and Strain on Social Well-Being among Emerging Adults in Poland: Serial Mediation by Meaning Making Processes.

Autor: Krok D; Institute of Psychology, Opole University, Plac Staszica 1a, 45-052, Opole, Poland. dkrok@uni.opole.pl., Szcześniak M; Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, Krakowska 69, 71-017, Szczecin, Poland., Zarzycka B; Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of religion and health [J Relig Health] 2024 Dec; Vol. 63 (6), pp. 4110-4129. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 20.
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-024-02102-8
Abstrakt: Religious struggles tend noticeably to influence the sphere of social well-being in emerging adulthood as individuals modify their religious beliefs and practices, form personal identity patterns, and rediscover new life purpose and values. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether meaning-making and meaning in life (presence and search) can serially mediate the hypothesized links between religious comfort vs. strain and social well-being. Self-report measures of religious struggles, meaning-making, meaning in life, and social well-being were completed by 368 emerging adults (aged 18 to 29, 52.2% female). The serial mediation analysis showed that the relationship between religious comfort vs. strain and social well-being was mediated by meaning-making and presence of meaning, but not by a search for meaning. These results suggest that religious struggles may represent unique aspects of developmental spiritual processes in emerging adulthood with implications for social well-being.
Competing Interests: Declarations Conflict of Interests The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Ethics approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Board of the Institute of Psychology at the first author’s university positively evaluated the research (number KEBN/4/2021). Informed Consent Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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