Religious Struggle : : Predictors and Consequences / / Beata Zarzycka.

• VerfasserIn: Zarzycka, Beata,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Brill :, V & R unipress,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- List of statistical symbols used -- Preface -- 1. Understanding Religious Struggle -- 1.1 The Concept of Religious Struggle -- 1.1.1 Religious struggle as coping responses to stress -- 1.1.2 Religious struggle as a state of religious tension -- 1.1.3 Religious struggle and religious and spiritual problems -- 1.2 Categories of Religious Struggle -- 1.2.1 Divine struggle -- 1.2.2 Moral struggle and religious doubts -- 1.2.3 Interpersonal struggle -- 1.2.4 Perceived as being under diabolical influence -- 1.3 Frequency of Religious Struggle -- 2. Tools for Studying Religious Struggle -- 2.1 First Measurements of Religious Strain -- 2.2 Scales for Measuring Struggle as an Aspect of a Person's Relationship with God -- 2.3 Scales for Measuring Struggle as a Style of Religious Coping with Stress -- 2.4 Scales for Measuring Struggle as a Psychological Strain -- 2.5 Scales to Measure Struggle in a Clinical Setting -- 3. Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 3.1 Situational Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 3.2 Social Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 3.3 Psychological Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 3.4 Religious Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 4. Consequences of Religious Struggle -- 4.1 Religious Struggle and Mental Health -- 4.2 Religious Struggle, Somatic Health and Mortality -- 4.3 Religious Struggle as a Predictor of Growth -- 5. Research Plan -- 5.1 Theoretical Assumptions -- 5.1.1 Predictors of religious struggle -- 5.1.2 Consequences of religious struggle -- 5.2 Research Plan -- 5.3 Study Participants -- 6. Predictors of Religious Struggle. Parental Attitudes, Personality, and Humility -- 6.1 Parental Attitudes -- 6.2 Personality Traits -- 6.3 Humility -- 6.4 Research Problem and Hypotheses -- 6.5 Method -- 6.5.1 Participants -- 6.5.2 Tools -- 6.5.3 Method of analysis.

6.6 Results -- 6.6.1 Parental attitudes, personality, and humility in the study sample -- 6.6.2 Correlations between parental attitudes, personality traits, humility, and religious struggle -- 6.6.3 A regression analysis -- 6.7 Discussion -- 7. Centrality, Post-critical Beliefs, Attachment to God, and Religious Struggle -- 7.1 The Theoretical Context of Religiosity -- 7.1.1 Centrality of religiosity -- 7.1.2 Post-critical beliefs -- 7.1.3 Attachment to God -- 7.2 Problem and Hypotheses -- 7.3 Method -- 7.3.1 Research participants -- 7.3.2 Tools -- 7.3.3 Methods of analysis -- 7.4 Results -- 7.4.1 Centrality and religious struggle -- 7.4.2 Post-critical beliefs and religious struggle -- 7.4.3 Attachment to God and religious struggle -- 7.5 Discussion -- 7.5.1 Centrality of religiosity -- 7.5.2 Post-critical beliefs -- 7.5.3 Attachment to God -- 8. Religious Struggle and Mental Health -- 8.1 Theoretical and Empirical Context of the Study -- 8.2 Problem and Hypotheses -- 8.3 Study 1: Religious Struggle, Stress, and Mental Health: A Moderated Mediation Model -- 8.3.1 Research participants -- 8.3.2 Tools -- 8.3.3 Method of analysis -- 8.3.4 Results -- 8.3.5 Discussion -- 8.4 Study 2: Religious Struggle, Religiosity, Satisfaction with Life, and Sense of Coherence: Models of Relationships -- 8.4.1 Research participants -- 8.4.2 Tools -- 8.4.3 Method of analysis -- 8.4.4 Results -- 8.4.5 Discussion -- 8.5 Study 3: Religious Struggle and Hopelessness -- 8.5.1 Research participants -- 8.5.2 Tools -- 8.5.3 Method of analysis -- 8.5.4 Results -- 8.5.5 Discussion -- 8.6 Summary -- 9. Religious Struggle and Mental Health in Difficult Situations -- 9.1 Study 1: Religious Struggle as a Mediator of the Depression-Illness Appraisal Link -- 9.1.1 Religious struggle in people with depression -- 9.1.2 Problem and hypotheses -- 9.1.3 Method -- 9.1.4 Results.

9.1.5 Discussion of results -- 9.2 Study 2: Religious Struggle as a Mediator of the Centrality-Anxiety and Centrality-Satisfaction with Life Links in Homosexual Men -- 9.2.1 The concept of homosexuality -- 9.2.2 Religion and the mental health of homosexuals -- 9.2.3 Problem and hypotheses -- 9.2.4 Method -- 9.2.5 Results -- 9.2.6 Discussion -- 10. Final Discussion -- 10.1 Predictors of Religious Struggle -- 10.1.1 Parental attitudes, personality, and humility as predictors -- 10.1.2 Religious predictors of religious struggle -- 10.2 Consequences of Religious Struggle -- 10.2.1 Consequences of religious struggle in the general population -- 10.2.2 Consequences of religious struggle in a difficult situation -- 10.3 Additional Notes -- 10.4 Limitations of the Study -- 10.5 Future Research -- Summary: Religious Struggles. Predictors and Consequences -- Literature -- Appendix: Tables of statistical analyses.