God Help Me (II): The Relationship of Religious Orientations to Religious Coping with Negative Life Events

The aim of this research was to understand the characteristics of rural young suicides with major depression in China and the relationship of these events with Confucian values and negative life events. Our cases were 90 rural suicides with major depression with victims aged 15 to 34 years and living matched controls of the same gender, age (within 3 years), and county of residence. Confucian values appear to be a protective factor for men but a risk factor for women with regard to suicide with major depression. More attention should be paid to Confucian values in suicide prevention efforts.

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Negative life events and mood states: Emotional resilience as mediator and moderator

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.8843 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (5) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Zhizhuan Li ◽

Jianxiang Zha ◽

Pengcheng Zhang ◽

Chenyu Shangguan ◽

Xia Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Life Events ◽

Mood State ◽

Emotional Health ◽

Negative Life Events ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Emotional Resilience ◽

Chinese College Students ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

We conducted a survey with 608 Chinese college students to investigate the mediating and moderating effects of emotional resilience in the relationship between negative life events and mood state. Researchers have previously examined either the moderating or mediating effect of emotional resilience in this relationship, and there has been disagreement about whether emotional resilience is idiosyncratic or state-driven. Our results showed that college students' level of emotional resilience and mood state were significant predictors for the effect of negative life events; emotional resilience had a significant positive effect on college students' mood state, and emotional resilience had a significant mediating and moderating effect in the relationship of negative life events and college students' mood state. These findings not only further support the theory that emotional resilience is statedriven, but also highlight the important role of emotional resilience in maintaining the emotional health of college students.

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Global Perceived Stress Level as a Moderator of the Relationship between Negative Life Events and Depression

Journal of Human Stress ◽

10.1080/0097840x.1986.9936781 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 149-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Nicholas A. Kuiper ◽

L. Joan Olinger ◽

Lisa M. Lyons

Keyword(s):

Life Events ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Stress Level ◽

Negative Life Events ◽

The Relationship

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The Relationship of Spiritual Coping with Resilience and Perceived Stress: Validation of the Dutch Spiritual Coping Questionnaire

Spiritual Psychology and Counseling ◽

10.37898/spc.2019.4.2.0063 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 93-108

Author(s):

Lilian Jans-Beken

Keyword(s):

Religious Coping ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Scale Validation ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Spiritual Coping ◽

Health Issues ◽

Resilience Scale ◽

Negative Religious Coping ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Spiritual Coping Questionnaire in Dutch (SCQ-nl), compare this questionnaire with a religious coping questionnaire, and assess the levels of religious and spiritual coping in association to resilience and perceived stress because these are important determinants in mental health issues. The Dutch-speaking respondents (N = 651, Mage = 45, SDage = 14, range = 18-80) answered the SCQ, Brief RCOPE, Perceived Stress Scale, and Brief Resilience Scale. Validation of the SCQ shows it to be a reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in Dutch-speaking individuals. Although the positive and negative religious coping scales are associated with positive and negative spiritual coping questionnaires, religious coping was not predictive of perceived stress or resilience. Multiple regression analyses demonstrate positive spiritual coping to be associated with lower perceived stress and higher resilience levels and negative spiritual coping to be associated with higher perceived stress and lower resilience levels in Dutch-speaking individuals. The outcome of this study is that the SCQ-nl is a valid and reliable measure for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in scientific psychological research and descriptively in clinical practice.

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The relationship of existential well – being to identity, religious coping, mental and general health among Norwegian aging women

Journal of Women & Aging ◽

10.1080/08952841.2020.1819178 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Mary Kalfoss ◽

Abdallah Abudayya ◽

Mildada Cvancarova Småstuen

Keyword(s):

Religious Coping ◽

General Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Aging Women ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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Health-related life events in patients with somatic symptom disorders: A case control study

International Journal of Social Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0020764019842278 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (4) ◽

pp. 265-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Balaswamy Reddy ◽

Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi ◽

Geetha Desai ◽

Narayana Manjunatha ◽

Srinivas Guruprasad

Keyword(s):

Life Events ◽

Somatic Symptom ◽

Somatoform Disorders ◽

Positive Association ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Patient Health ◽

Health Related ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Background: The positive association between adverse life events and somatoform disorders is a consistent observation. But no systematic studies have evaluated the relationship between health-related life events (HLEs) in patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD)/somatoform disorders. Aim: To examine the nature and relationship of HLE in patients with SSD and to assess the correlates of HLE. Methods: A total of 50 adult patients with SSD and 50 matched healthy controls from a Neuropsychiatric hospital were recruited. Sociodemographic interview, scale for assessment of somatic symptoms (SASS), Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15) and a semi-structured interview schedule to gather information on HLE were used. Results: Patients in the SSD group had a significantly higher number of total HLE in general (4.72 ± 2.63, 3.36 ± 1.92; p = .004), major HLE (1.48 ± 1.45, 0.68 ± 0.94; p = .006), during their lifetime in comparison to controls. Infections, trauma, non-communicable diseases and reproductive system–related diseases were the more common types of HLE in SSD group. Conclusion: Our findings may implicate a role of major HLE of patients and HLE of their family members in the pathophysiology of SSD.

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INTERVENING PROCESSES BETWEEN ADOLESCENT DRUG USE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE SELF-MEDICATION HYPOTHESIS

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1998.26.2.115 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 115-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Kelly Damphousse ◽

Howard B. Kaplan

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Drug Use ◽

Life Events ◽

Negative Life Events ◽

The Self ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Deviant Peers ◽

Self Medication ◽

Adolescent Drug Use ◽

The Relationship

The self-medication hypothesis suggests that individuals who experience high levels of psychological distress use drugs to relieve their pain. The extent to which this is the case (and to which people do feel better after using drugs) has had mixed support in the literature. The present analysis uses structural equation modeling of longitudinal data to explore how deviant disposition, deviant peers, and negative life events act as intervening variables in the hypothesized relationship between psychological distress and adolescent drug use. The results suggest that deviant disposition and association with deviant peers mediate the relationship between antecedent psychological distress and later drug use. Similarly, negative life events mediate the relationship between adolescent drug use and adult psychological distress.

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