Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: Coping with the loss of a child.

McIntosh, Daniel N.; Silver, Roxane Cohen; Wortman, Camille B.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.812

Cited by 599Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologyGrief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: Coping with the loss of a child.

McIntosh, Daniel N., Silver, Roxane Cohen, Wortman, Camille B.·1993·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.812

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Parents (N = 124) who had lost an infant to sudden infant death syndrome were interviewed 3 weeks and 18 months postloss. Two components of religion (religious participation and religious importance) were assessed, and their relations with 3 coping-process variables (perceived social support, cognitive processing of the loss, and finding meaning in the death) were examined. Greater religious participation was related to increased perception of social support and greater meaning found in the loss. Importance of religion was positively related to cognitive processing and finding meaning in the death. Furthermore, through these coping-process variables, religious participation and importance were indirectly related to greater well-being and less distress among parents 18 months after their infants' deaths. Results suggest that further study of the social and cognitive aspects of religion would be profitable.

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Authors: McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Wortman, C. B.
Affiliations: University of Denver (US)
ORCID: McIntosh, Daniel N.
Silver, Roxane Cohen
Venue: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1993
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Pages: 812-821
ISSN: 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
1939-1315
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.812
OpenAlex: W2023754581
Cited by: 598
References: 62
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 29 · 2012: 19
FWCI: 13.64
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: U.S. Public Health Service (MCJ-260470)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Keywords: religion, sudden infant death syndrome, parental bereavement, coping, social support, religious participation, religious significance, well-being, distress, life events
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Psychological, Attitude to Death, Bereavement, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Life Change Events, Male, Parents, Religion and Psychology, Sudden Infant Death

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