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Spiritual Appraisals and Religious Coping: Exploring New Dimensions of Late Adolescents’ Experiences of Parental Divorce

Warner, Heidi L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147705025

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
This study examined the relationship between spiritual appraisals (i.e. sacred loss, desecration, manifestation of God) and individual psychological maladjustment (i.e. anxiety/trauma, depression), psychological distress (i.e. painful feelings about divorce), personal and spiritual growth (i.e. post-traumatic growth, spiritual growth and spiritual decline) and parent-child relationship quality (i.e. satisfaction with both mother and father and level of behavioral conflict with both mother and father.) This study also examined the mediation effects of religious coping variables (i.e., negative religious coping, positive religious coping, blessing in disguise and religious conversion) on the bivariate links between negative spiritual appraisals and criterion variables. One hundred and nine undergraduates participated in this study. Analyses indicated that there was a strong correlation between negative spiritual appraisals and psychological maladjustment, psychological distress and personal growth. These relationships remained significant after taking into account global religiousness. Positive spiritual appraisals were correlated with increased anxiety/trauma and personal growth. Hierarchical regressions were used to control for secular appraisals of threat, harm and challenge and results showed that negative spiritual appraisals seem to trigger greater negative secular appraisals; some but not all of the links between negative spiritual appraisals and the criterion variables remained significant once controlling for secular appraisals. Spiritual appraisal variables were not related to any measures of parent-child relationship quality. Results of the mediation analyses suggest that negative religious coping partially or fully mediated the link between negative spiritual appraisals and individual psychological maladjustment and psychological distress. Likewise, positive religious coping and blessing in disguise mediated the relationship between negative spiritual appraisals and post-traumatic growth. Religious conversion was not a significant mediator. Implications of the clinical application of these findings include exploration of emotional and spiritual implications of parental divorce on psychological adjustment and views towards marriage in both a secular and religious counseling setting. Future research should further investigate implications of spiritual appraisals on parent-child relationship quality and on romantic relationship dynamics.
Annette Mahoney (Advisor)
152 p.
Psychology, Clinical
Religion; Spirituality; Parental Divorce; Religious Coping; Sacred Loss and Desecration

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  • Warner, H. L. (2006). Spiritual Appraisals and Religious Coping: Exploring New Dimensions of Late Adolescents’ Experiences of Parental Divorce [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147705025

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Warner, Heidi. Spiritual Appraisals and Religious Coping: Exploring New Dimensions of Late Adolescents’ Experiences of Parental Divorce. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147705025.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Warner, Heidi. "Spiritual Appraisals and Religious Coping: Exploring New Dimensions of Late Adolescents’ Experiences of Parental Divorce." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147705025

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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