Disclosure to God as a Mediator Between Private Prayer and Psychological Well-Being in a Christian Sample

Link Type ◽

The Relationship ◽

Distress Disclosure ◽

Private Prayer

Abstract Although a number of studies have reported the psychological and physical benefits of prayer, only a few have examined the means by which prayer affects health. Winkeljohn Black et al. (J Relig Health 54(2):540–553, 2015. 10.1007/s10943-014-9840-4) found disclosure to God as a mediator in the relationship between prayer and mental health. In their study, the authors used Poloma and Pendleton’s (Rev Relig Res 31(1):46–53, 1989. https://doi.org/10.2307/3511023, ) model of prayer. This study examined whether disclosure to God as a mediator can be upheld with Laird et al.’s (Int J Psychol Relig 14(4):251–272, 2004) prayer model. The study included 285 Polish adults (50.2% of women), aged between 18 and 60 years. The Multidimensional Prayer Inventory, the Revised Distress Disclosure Index, and the Psychological Well-Being Scale were applied to the research. The results showed that the prayer of thanksgiving correlated positively and the prayer of supplication negatively with well-being. Two indirect effects were significant, indicating disclosure to God as a mediator of the confession—well-being link and the supplication—well-being link.

The relationship between mental health self-efficacy and mental well-being in England, UK: A Cross-sectional study

10.21203/rs.3.rs-30125/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Frederike Katharina Lemmel ◽

Rebecca Jones ◽

Sonia Johnson ◽

Anita Jolly ◽

Miriam Miller ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Help Seeking ◽

Well Being ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Mental Well Being ◽

Abstract Background. Mental well-being is an essential concept in research and public health as it is recognised as an indicator of population mental health and quality of life. Previous studies have provided evidence that general self-efficacy is positively related to mental well-being. The aim of this study is to examine whether higher help-seeking self-efficacy and higher psychological well-being self-efficacy respectively, are associated with increased mental well-being.Methods. In this cross-sectional study 1795 adults from the general English population were recruited from a market research panel to fill out an online questionnaire between 24th September 2018 and 05th October 2018. Two simple linear regression analyses were used to investigate the relationship between each of help-seeking self-efficacy and psychological well-being self- efficacy as exposure variables and mental well-being as the outcome. Multiple imputation by chained equations was used to handle missing data.Results. No evidence was found for an association between either help-seeking self-efficacy or psychological well-being self-efficacy and mental well-being.Conclusions. These findings do not provide evidence that improving help-seeking or psychological well-being self-efficacy could lead to improving well-being. Methodological limitations, such as unmeasured confounders might be responsible for the lack of evidence in this study. Having a mental health condition is a potential negative confounder that might not have been measured adequately.

Making Best Friends From Other Groups and Mental Health of Chinese Adolescents

Youth & Society ◽

10.1177/0044118x20959222 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 0044118X2095922

Author(s):

Xiaochen Zhou ◽

Jia Li ◽

Qi Wang

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Status ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Well Being ◽

Vital Role ◽

Mental Health Status ◽

Chinese Adolescents ◽

Friendship may be significantly associated with adolescents’ psychological well-being. Among various kinds of friendships, this study investigated two types of intergroup friendships among Chinese adolescents, specifically cross-hukou-location and cross-gender friendship. Fixed-effects modeling with a two-wave national dataset—the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS)—was performed to evaluate the relationship between within-individual changes in cross-hukou-location friendship, cross-gender friendship, and mental health status ( N = 5,297, boys: 50.18%, average age: 12.92 at wave 1). The relationship pattern among different genders was also explored. The results showed that cross-hukou-location friendship is positively associated with male adolescents’ mental health status. The cross-gender relationship is negatively related to mental health in the overall sample and female subsample. The findings not only emphasized the vital role of intergroup contact but also shed light on understanding the role of gender in intergroup friendship-making and the relationship with psychological well-being.

The Relationship between Dimensions of Forgiveness with Mental Health in Mothers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Journal of Education and Learning ◽

10.5539/jel.v5n4p15 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 15 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shahrooz Nemati ◽

Mir Mahmoud Mirnasab ◽

Bagher Ghobari Bonab

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Developmental Disabilities ◽

Well Being ◽

Theoretical Implication ◽

Sampling Procedure ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽

<p>The aim of the current study was to predict mental health of the mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the magnitude of their forgiveness. To fulfill the stated goal 88 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities by means of accessible sampling procedure, and Besharat mental health (2009) as well as Enright forgiveness inventories standardized by Ghobari Bonab et al. (2003) was given to them. Analysis of data using Pearson’s correlation revealed that among mental health (psychological well-being and psychological distress) and all three dimensions of forgiveness a positive relation was found. In other words, individuals who were higher in forgiveness were more satisfied in their mental health. Multivariate regression also revealed that 23% of variations in psychological well-being by affective and cognation, and 20% of variations in psychological distress by cognation and behavioral component can be accounted by dimensions of their forgiveness. Theoretical implication and practical application of the findings have been delineated in the original paper.</p>

Mediation effect of anger rumination on the relationship between dimensions of anger and anger control with mental health

International journal of psychological research ◽

10.21500/20112084.732 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 8-17

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Besharat ◽

Samane Pourbohlool

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Well Being ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Anger Control ◽

Anger Rumination ◽

State Anger ◽

Iranian Students ◽

The aim of this study was to examine mediation effect of anger rumination on the relationship between dimensions of anger and anger control including trait anger, state anger, anger in, anger out, anger-control in, and anger-control out with mental health in a sample of Iranian students. A total of 449 volunteer students (234 girls, 215 boys) were included in this study. All participants were asked to complete the Tehran Multidimensional Anger Scale (TMAS; Besharat, 2008), Anger Rumination Scale (ARS; Sukhodolsky, Golub, & Cromwell, 2001), and the Mental Health Inventory (MHI; Veit & Ware, 1983). Anger rumination mediated the relationship between dimensions of anger and anger control with mental health in opposite directions. Analysis of the data revealed that higher levels of anger was associated with lower levels of psychological well-being as well as higher levels of psychological distress. In contrast, higher levels of anger control were associated with higher levels of psychological well-being as well as lower levels of psychological distress. Mediation effect of anger rumination for the association of anger dimensions with mental health was full for psychological well-being and partial for psychological distress. Conversely, mediation effect of anger rumination for the association of anger control dimensions with mental health was partial for psychological well-being and full for psychological distress.

Social Intelligence and Psychological Distress: Subjective and Psychological Well-Being as Mediators

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17217785 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (21) ◽

pp. 7785

Author(s):

Carolina M. Azañedo ◽

Santiago Sastre ◽

Teresa Artola ◽

Jesús M. Alvarado ◽

Amelia Jiménez-Blanco

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Indirect Effects ◽

Social Intelligence ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Explanatory Models ◽

Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽

Psychological Well Being

The strength named “social intelligence” in the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues represents emotional, personal, and social intelligences, which are considered “hot intelligences”. This work contributed to the study of the mechanisms of influence of social intelligence on mental health. A multiple mediation model was proposed to quantify the direct effect of social intelligence on psychopathological symptoms, as well as its indirect effect through its impact on components of subjective and psychological well-being. This study involved 1407 university students who completed the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Psychological Well-Being Scales (PWBS), and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Social intelligence was found to be significantly associated with life satisfaction (a = 0.33, p < 0.001), positive affect (a = 0.42, p < 0.001), and negative affect (a = −0.21, p < 0.001), transmitting significant indirect effects on psychopathological symptomatology through these components of subjective well-being. Likewise, social intelligence was positively and significantly related to psychological well-being (a-paths ranged from 0.31 to 0.43, p < 0.001), exerting significant and negative indirect effects on psychological distress through the dimension of positive relations with other people. These results could be useful in order to expand the explanatory models of the influence of social intelligence on mental health and to design interventions based on this strength for the promotion of well-being and the reduction in psychological distress.

Valeological Potential of Home Attachment in Adults

Clinical Psychology and Special Education ◽

10.17759/cpse.2016050301 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

S.I. Reznichenko

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental Wellbeing ◽

Middle Adulthood ◽

Age Related ◽

The article focuses on the role of subject-environment interactions, namely, human relationship with home environment, in maintaining mental health of a person. As a key construct that reflects personal preferences and love toward home it is proposed to consider the phenomenon of home attachment. Until now, the relationship between home attachment and psychological health and, moreover, the analysis of these relationships in the context of life course has been the subject of theoretical constructions, that prove the benefit of their empirical research. Home attachment was measured with the author’s same name questionnaire (Reznichenko et al., 2016). There were also measured mental health and its components: psychological well-being (using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale of R. Tennant and colleagues), a sense of connectedness (Sense of Coherence scale developed by A. Antonovsky) and authenticity (the Authenticity Scale by A. Wood, et al.). Adult respondents (N=203; age range 18-60 years; Mage=33.7; SDage=7.2) were participated in the study; the sample was divided into three age groups: youth age, early adulthood and middle adulthood. The obtained results allowed concluding that home attachment is a resource of mental health, especially in maintaining a sense of coherence and psychological well-being. It was found that the relationship between home attachment and psychological health is age-specific: the strongest correlations are observed in youth, they become insignificant in early adulthood, and in middle adulthood they become significant again. The results are discussed in the context of life and age-related problems of personality development.