Religious Coping, Experiential Avoidance, Self-Compassion, and Post-Traumatic Stress by COVID-19: a Serial Mediation Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought consequences to mental health, with religiosity being a relevant coping factor in reducing the negative impact of the health crisis. Based on a convenience sample of Chilean adults, this study sought to explore the relationship between religious coping and post-trau...
| Subtitles: | Religion, Mind and Body in Latin America: Multi-and Interdisciplinary Approaches |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023
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| In: |
International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 562-573 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Coping
B Covid-19 B Self-compassion B Post-traumatic Stress B Experiential avoidance |
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| Summary: | The COVID-19 pandemic has brought consequences to mental health, with religiosity being a relevant coping factor in reducing the negative impact of the health crisis. Based on a convenience sample of Chilean adults, this study sought to explore the relationship between religious coping and post-traumatic stress due to COVID-19, hypothesizing that this relationship would be mediated by experiential avoidance and self-compassion. A non-experimental cross-sectional design was used, applying an online survey to 300 adults who lived in Chile. The results show that all variables are related and that experiential avoidance (EA) and self-compassion play a serial mediating role in the relationship between negative religious coping (NRC) and post-traumatic stress. Furthermore, the results showed that religious coping, experiential avoidance, self-compassion, and COVID-19 post-traumatic stress are significantly interrelated. Moreover, a serial mediation was found among the variables: higher experiential avoidance and lower level of self-compassion mediate the impact of COVID-19 post-traumatic stress in people with negative religious coping. At the end of the article, the implications of the results and how these variables interact in a serial mediation mechanism that sheds further light on the relationships between negative religious coping, mental health, and adverse situations such as COVID-19 are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-022-00184-4 |