The Interplay of Religious and Nonreligious Meaning-Making on Psychological Well-Being in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients

IF 1.7 2区哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Pub Date : 2020-11-12 DOI:10.1080/10508619.2020.1834746

Dariusz Krok, B. Zarzycka, E. Telka

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Previous research has identified close relationships between religious and nonreligious factors and well-being in cancer patients. This study expands on such studies by examining the interplay of religious and nonreligious meaning-making factors on psychological well-being in gastrointestinal cancer patients; 317 patients (160 women and 157 men) with gastrointestinal cancer participated in the current study. Two coping strategies were utilized: negative religious coping and meaning-focused coping. These mediated the relationship between the religious meaning system and psychological well-being and the relationship between the presence of meaning in life and psychological well-being. In contrast, the association between changes in beliefs and goals and psychological well-being was mediated by negative religious coping and the presence of meaning in life. Positive religious coping did not play a mediating role in the above relationships. The findings suggest that for cancer patients, religious and nonreligious factors do not exist in “a psychological vacuum” as separate entities, but tend to interact with each other on a basis of meaning structures.

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宗教与非宗教意义制造对癌症胃肠道患者心理健康的影响

摘要先前的研究已经确定了癌症患者的宗教和非宗教因素与健康之间的密切关系。这项研究通过检查宗教和非宗教意义形成因素对癌症胃肠道患者心理健康的相互作用来扩展这些研究；317名胃肠道癌症患者（160名女性和157名男性）参与了本研究。采用了两种应对策略：消极的宗教应对和以意义为中心的应对。它们介导了宗教意义体系与心理幸福感之间的关系，以及生命意义的存在与心理幸福之间的关系。相反，信仰和目标的变化与心理健康之间的联系是由消极的宗教应对和生活意义的存在所介导的。积极的宗教应对在上述关系中没有起到中介作用。研究结果表明，对于癌症患者来说，宗教和非宗教因素并不作为单独的实体存在于“心理真空”中，而是倾向于在意义结构的基础上相互作用。

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International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Multiple-

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4.20

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4.50%

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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.