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Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: Coping with the loss of a child.
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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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“For example, religious parents appear to be better able to cope with the loss of a child [47].”
From Faith after an Earthquake: A Longitudinal Study of Religion and Perceived Health before and after the 2011 Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake (2012) · cites this paper as [47]
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“Furthermore, religious communities have been found to be beneficial as another source of social support, as greater religious participation has been related to increased perception of social support contributing to less grief-related distress for parents.33”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Wortman, C. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Denver (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1993
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 812-821
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2023754581
- Cited by
- 598
- References
- 62
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- 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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