Conviction, character and coping: religiosity and personality are both uniquely associated with optimism and positive reappraising
Optimism and positive reappraising seemingly mediate religiosity’s association with well-being. Yet past studies linking religiosity and cognitive coping typically use a bivariate design; thereby ignoring rival explanations. Given previous evidence that agreeableness and conscientiousness (personali...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 8, Pages: 763-779 |
Further subjects: | B
Conscientiousness
B positive reappraisals B Personality B Religiosity B Incremental Validity B Agreeableness B Optimism |
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Summary: | Optimism and positive reappraising seemingly mediate religiosity’s association with well-being. Yet past studies linking religiosity and cognitive coping typically use a bivariate design; thereby ignoring rival explanations. Given previous evidence that agreeableness and conscientiousness (personality traits that co-vary with optimism, positive reappraisal usage and religiosity) largely nullify the association between religiosity and social support, hierarchical regression modelling of cross-sectional survey data - Australia (N = 195), Japan (N = 931) and the USA (N = 5999) - is employed to incrementally validate religiosity’s association with optimism and also positive reappraisals. Although religiosity remains a statistically significant predictor of these coping styles, including agreeableness and conscientiousness typically reduces the strength of association. These cross-cultural results lend weight to the hypothesis that religiosity is a potential, albeit small, influence on cognitive coping styles. Prospective research is now needed to establish whether changes in religiosity precede changes in coping as theorised. |
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ISSN: | 1469-9737 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2018.1542422 |