Going Beyond Positive and Negative: Clarifying Relationships of Specific Religious Coping Styles With Posttraumatic Outcomes

Lehmann Curtis; Steele Emma

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Religion and spirituality provide coping resources that are associated with outcomes following a trauma, including posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth. Although religious coping was initially conceptualized by Pargament (1997) as a set of 21 constructs, most researchers have favored a brief assessment of the 2 higher order constructs, positive and negative religious coping. This brief measure has popularized research on religious coping but the tradeoff has been that findings are restricted to these higher-order constructs, rather than the actual coping methods. As a result, findings are difficult to apply to clinical interventions, to religious settings, and in refining theory. This research study was designed to help address this shortcoming in the literature by modeling posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and perceived posttraumatic growth (PPTG). The study is composed of 2 samples of trauma-exposed individuals: 286 participants from Amazon's MTurk and 308 undergraduate students at a faith-based university. Participants completed measures of traumatic experiences, PTSD symptoms, PPTG, and the full Religious Coping Inventory. Multiple penalized regressions were conducted to develop models of religious coping methods that were strongly linked to PTSD symptoms and posttraumatic growth. The models that were developed included variables both positively and negatively associated with PTS and PPTG, identifying specific relationship between the constructs, such as the negative association between active surrender and PTS. The results provide guidance for researchers, therapists. and religious leaders who aim to minimize posttraumatic stress responses and to facilitate posttraurnatic growth.

机译：宗教和灵性提供了应对与创伤后果相关的应对资源，包括宫外压力和错误生长。虽然宗教应对最初是由Pargament（1997）的概念化，但大多数研究人员都赞成对2个高阶建设，积极和负面的宗教应对的简要评估。这项简短措施对宗教应对的推广研究，但权衡已经限制了这些高阶构建，而不是实际的应对方法。结果，难以申请临床干预措施，以及宗教环境和精炼理论。该研究旨在通过对文献进行建模，通过模拟错误的应激（PTS）症状并感知到创伤性生长（PPTG）来帮助解决文献中的这种缺点。该研究由2个创伤性的2个样本组成：来自亚马逊的Mturk和308名本科学生的286名参与者在基于信仰的大学。参与者完成了创伤体验，PTSD症状，PPTG和全面宗教应对库存的措施。进行了多元惩罚的回归，以制定宗教应对方法的模型，这些方法与应激障碍症状强烈相关。开发的模型包括与PTS和PPT相关的阳性和负相关，识别构造之间的特定关系，例如主动投降和PTS之间的负关联。结果为研究人员，治疗师提供指导。宗旨，旨在最大限度地减少宫外压力反应并促进暴发性生长。

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