TY - CHAP
T1 - Religious coping and gratitude in emerging adulthood
AU - Brelsford, Gina M.
AU - Fulmer, Megan E.
AU - Harrison, Marissa A.
AU - Xu, Xu
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors Note: Gina M. Brelsford, Penn State Harrisburg; Megan E. Fulmer, Penn State Harrisburg; Marissa A. Harrison, Penn State Harrisburg; Xu Xu, Penn State Harrisburg. This research was supported by a Research Council Grant provided by Penn State Harrisburg. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Gina M. Brelsford, Department of Psychology, Penn State Harrisburg, Olmsted W311, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA, USA, 17057. Phone: 717-948-6759. Fax: 717-948-6519. Email: Gmy103@psu.edu
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© KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2014
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This study focused on understanding how emerging adults' use of religious coping strategies related to a grateful disposition. A sample of 319 college students provided responses related to their use of coping strategies, including religious and secular coping coupled with measures of personality, satisfaction with life, affect, and gratitude. Results indicated emerging adults who reported higher levels of positive religious coping strategies also indicated higher levels of gratitude. Conversely, respondents reported an inverse correlation between negative religious and self-directed religious coping and gratitude. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we found that religious coping, specifically negative religious coping, predicted participants' gratitude even after accounting for subjective well-being, secular coping, and personality factors. Implications for these findings are discussed in light of challenges faced by emerging adults today.
AB - This study focused on understanding how emerging adults' use of religious coping strategies related to a grateful disposition. A sample of 319 college students provided responses related to their use of coping strategies, including religious and secular coping coupled with measures of personality, satisfaction with life, affect, and gratitude. Results indicated emerging adults who reported higher levels of positive religious coping strategies also indicated higher levels of gratitude. Conversely, respondents reported an inverse correlation between negative religious and self-directed religious coping and gratitude. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we found that religious coping, specifically negative religious coping, predicted participants' gratitude even after accounting for subjective well-being, secular coping, and personality factors. Implications for these findings are discussed in light of challenges faced by emerging adults today.
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U2 - 10.1163/9789004272385-004
DO - 10.1163/9789004272385-004
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84955216785
T3 - Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
SP - 32
EP - 52
BT - Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 25
A2 - Piedmont, Ralph L.
A2 - Village, Andrew
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -