The Role of Religion in the Mental Health of Single Adults: A Mixed-Method Investigation

IF 1.7 2区哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1080/10508619.2023.2265275

Katarzyna Adamczyk, Radosław Trepanowski, Marta Mrozowicz-Wrońska, Kamil Janowicz

{"title":"The Role of Religion in the Mental Health of Single Adults: A Mixed-Method Investigation","authors":"Katarzyna Adamczyk, Radosław Trepanowski, Marta Mrozowicz-Wrońska, Kamil Janowicz","doi":"10.1080/10508619.2023.2265275","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The current investigation examined the role of religion in the experiences of single Polish adults and their mental health. Study 1 employed semistructured interviews, while Study 2 involved two quantitative assessments separated by a 1-month interval. Study 1 (N = 4) identified seven themes related to religion in the context of singlehood. Study 2 (N = 661; M = 32.69, SD = 6.90) revealed that negative religious coping mediated the links between singlehood boundary ambiguity, and anxiety, depression, and emotional and psychological well-being. A follow-up study (N = 319) showed that higher singlehood boundary ambiguity was related to higher negative religious coping, which was related to greater increases in later anxiety and depression. Singlehood boundary ambiguity appears to prompt single people to exhibit negative religious coping, which negatively affects their positive and negative mental health outcomes concurrently and amplifies the changes in their anxiety and depression over time.","PeriodicalId":47234,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Psychology of Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal for the Psychology of Religion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2023.2265275","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The current investigation examined the role of religion in the experiences of single Polish adults and their mental health. Study 1 employed semistructured interviews, while Study 2 involved two quantitative assessments separated by a 1-month interval. Study 1 (N = 4) identified seven themes related to religion in the context of singlehood. Study 2 (N = 661; M = 32.69, SD = 6.90) revealed that negative religious coping mediated the links between singlehood boundary ambiguity, and anxiety, depression, and emotional and psychological well-being. A follow-up study (N = 319) showed that higher singlehood boundary ambiguity was related to higher negative religious coping, which was related to greater increases in later anxiety and depression. Singlehood boundary ambiguity appears to prompt single people to exhibit negative religious coping, which negatively affects their positive and negative mental health outcomes concurrently and amplifies the changes in their anxiety and depression over time.

查看原文本刊更多论文

宗教在单身成年人心理健康中的作用:一项混合方法调查

目前的调查考察了宗教在波兰单身成年人的经历及其心理健康中的作用。研究1采用半结构化访谈，而研究2采用两次定量评估，间隔1个月。研究1 (N = 4)确定了单身背景下与宗教相关的七个主题。研究2 (N = 661;M = 32.69, SD = 6.90)表明，消极的宗教应对介导了单身边界模糊与焦虑、抑郁、情绪和心理健康之间的联系。一项随访研究(N = 319)显示，单身边界模糊程度越高，消极的宗教应对程度越高，而消极的宗教应对与后期焦虑和抑郁的增加有关。单身边界模糊似乎促使单身人士表现出消极的宗教应对，这同时对他们的积极和消极心理健康结果产生负面影响，并随着时间的推移放大他们的焦虑和抑郁的变化。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.