Attachment to God and Religious Coping as Mediators in the Relation between Immigration Distress and Life Satisfaction among Korean Americans

IF 1.7 2区 哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
C. Kim, Sangwon Kim, Fran C. Blumberg
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Abstract

ABSTRACT We investigated the effect of immigration distress on Korean Americans’ life satisfaction, using attachment to God and religious coping as mediators. A sample of 214 participants was recruited from urban ethnic churches in various states, and they responded to online or offline surveys. There were two serial multiple mediation models (Models A and B) developed based on the attachment system activation model and empirical evidence. Each of the models included a pair of the two mediators: avoidant attachment to God and positive religious coping for Model A, and anxious attachment to God and negative religious coping for Model B. We initially examined the overall model fit as well as the direct and indirect effects using AMOS 21. Upon finding significant aggregated indirect effects, we examined individual indirect effects using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Results demonstrated that Model A showed a poor model fit and Model B showed a good model fit to the observed data. Serial multiple mediation analyses provided some support for our conceptualization that distress activates the attachment to God system as an internal working model that is translated into religious coping as attachment behavior. As expected in Model B, distress was inversely associated with life satisfaction through anxious attachment to God and negative religious coping. Model A demonstrated rather complicated relations. The implications of cultural, theoretical, and methodological issues, with special regard to attachment to God and religious coping in Korean Americans as immigrants, were discussed.
对上帝的依恋与宗教应对在韩裔美国人移民困境与生活满意度关系中的中介作用
摘要本研究以对上帝的依恋和宗教应对为中介,考察移民困境对韩裔美国人生活满意度的影响。研究人员从美国各州的城市少数民族教会招募了214名参与者,他们对在线或离线调查做出了回应。在依恋系统激活模型和实证基础上,构建了两个系列多重中介模型(模型A和模型B)。每个模型都包含一对中介:a模型为逃避型上帝依恋和积极的宗教应对,b模型为焦虑型上帝依恋和消极的宗教应对。我们首先使用AMOS 21检验了模型的整体拟合以及直接和间接影响。在发现显著的聚合间接效应后,我们使用SPSS的PROCESS宏检查了个体间接效应。结果表明,模型A对观测数据拟合较差,模型B对观测数据拟合较好。一系列多重中介分析为我们的概念提供了一些支持,即痛苦激活了对上帝的依恋系统,作为一种内部工作模型,被转化为宗教应对,作为依恋行为。正如模型B所预期的那样,通过对上帝的焦虑依恋和消极的宗教应对,痛苦与生活满意度呈负相关。模型A展示了相当复杂的关系。讨论了文化、理论和方法问题的影响,特别是关于韩裔美国移民对上帝的依恋和宗教应对。
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4.20
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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.
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