Does attachment to God matter? Role of spiritual attachment in mental health through self-forgiveness: lessons from Turkish college sample.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-04 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1603654

Fatih Aydın

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Abstract

Background: The present study examines the role of spiritual attachment and self-forgiveness in flourishing among college students. A mediation model was tested in which flourishing served as the outcome variable, spiritual attachment as the independent variable, and self-forgiveness as the mediator.

Methods: The sample consists of 311 (72.3%) females and 119 (27.7%) males, totaling 430 volunteered college students from 58 colleges and 18 faculties in Türkiye. The average age was 21.52 (3.49) for the total sample. Demographic Information Form, the Flourishing Scale, the Muslim Spiritual Attachment Scale, and the Self-Forgiveness Dual-Process Scale were utilized for data collection. A mediation model was tested based on the distinct subscales of self-forgiveness: value reorientation and esteem restoration.

Results: The findings demonstrated that spiritual attachment significantly predicts flourishing among college students. Furthermore, both value reorientation and esteem restoration significantly predicted flourishing and played a mediator role in the relationship between spiritual attachment and flourishing.

Conclusion: Together, it can be concluded that greater spiritual attachment may directly and indirectly (via self-forgiveness) contribute to better mental functioning in life. The present study promises some valuable information for practitioners in the field on the role of spiritual attachment and self-forgiveness in the mental health of emerging adults.

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对神的依恋重要吗？通过自我宽恕的精神依恋在心理健康中的作用：来自土耳其大学样本的经验教训。

背景：本研究探讨了精神依恋和自我宽恕在大学生成长中的作用。以成长为结果变量、精神依恋为自变量、自我宽恕为中介变量的中介模型进行检验。方法：样本中女性311人（占72.3%），男性119人（占27.7%），共430名志愿者，来自浙江省58个学院和18个院系。总样本平均年龄21.52岁（3.49岁）。采用人口统计信息表、繁荣量表、穆斯林精神依恋量表和自我宽恕双过程量表进行数据收集。基于自我宽恕的价值重定向和自尊恢复这两个不同的子量表对中介模型进行了检验。结果：精神依恋对大学生的成功有显著的预测作用。此外，价值取向和自尊恢复在精神依恋与繁荣之间的关系中起着显著的预测作用和中介作用。结论：综上所述，我们可以得出这样的结论：更大的精神依恋可以直接或间接（通过自我宽恕）促进生活中更好的心理功能。本研究为初出期成人的精神依恋和自我宽恕在心理健康中的作用提供了一些有价值的信息。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

5.30

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13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.