The Religious Meaning System and Subjective Well-Being
The purpose of this article is to test hypotheses that meaning in life can be a mediator in the relations between religiousness expressed in terms of a meaning system and subjective well-being. Previous research on religion and well-being has left some questions unanswered. Associations of the relig...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Archive for the psychology of religion |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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SAGE Publishing
2014
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Archive for the psychology of religion
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religious meaning system
subjective well-being
meaning in life
mediational relations
cognitive and affective dimensions of well-being
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| Zusammenfassung: | The purpose of this article is to test hypotheses that meaning in life can be a mediator in the relations between religiousness expressed in terms of a meaning system and subjective well-being. Previous research on religion and well-being has left some questions unanswered. Associations of the religious meaning system and subjective well-being turn out to be complex and suggest the possibility of meaning-oriented mediators in their relations. The results obtained in the current study demonstrated that personal meaning and presence of meaning were partial mediators between the religious meaning system and the cognitive dimension of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction). In contrast, search for meaning did not have a significant mediational role in those relations and there were no direct or indirect relationships between the religious meaning system and the affective dimension of subjective well-being (i.e., positive and negative affect). The findings suggest indirect relations between religiousness and well-being which are partially mediated by structures of meaning and purpose. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6121 |
| Enthält: | In: Archive for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15736121-12341288 |