RT Article
T1 Attachment, Religiosity, and Perceived Stress Among Religious Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Cultural Context
JF Journal of psychology and theology
VO 50
IS 3
SP 369
OP 383
A1 Schwaiger, Elizabeth
A1 Zehra, Syeda Saniya
A1 Suneel, Ivan
A2 Zehra, Syeda Saniya
A2 Suneel, Ivan
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814881514
AB The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on stress levels around the world. In developing nations such as Pakistan, lack of resources and socioeconomic inequalities have compounded the negative impact of the pandemic, especially for minorities. Religion in the developing, collectivistic, Muslim-majority nation of Pakistan is a powerful identity marker inherited at birth and reflected in all identifying documents. A well-developed conceptual framework for religion is attachment to God, which has demonstrated strong predictive value for perceived stress in Western samples. Given the importance of other attachment relationships as well, this study has examined the predictive value of attachment to parents, attachment to God, and religiosity on perceived stress in Christian minorities within a Pakistani context. The sample consisted of 183 adult Christian Pakistanis. Multiple regression indicated that religiosity, attachment to father, and attachment to God were the strongest predictors of perceived stress, though not in the same pattern as expected in Western contexts. This finding demonstrates the importance of the impact of culture, attachment relationships, and religious context on perceived stress, indicating a need to consider both religion and culture in psychological care, as well as local and international public policy, to mitigate stress along minorities in developing nations in such uncertain times.
K1 Pakistan
K1 Developing nations
K1 Attachment
K1 Religiosity
K1 Culture
K1 perceived stress
K1 Minorities
K1 Covid-19
DO 10.1177/00916471211025532