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The Stress-Buffering Role of Spiritual Support: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Investigations
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The contribution of spiritual support (perceived support from God) to well-being, especially under conditions of high versus low life stress, has received little empirical study. In the present research, the relationship of spiritual support to well-being for several high and low life-stress samples was examined. With demographic variables controlled, regression analyses indicated that spiritual support: 1) was inversely related to depression and positively related to self-esteem for high life-stress (recently bereaved) parents; and 2) in a prospective (longitudinal) analysis with pre-college depression controlled, spiritual support was positively related to personal-emotional adjustment to college for high life-stress (three or more life events), first-semester college freshmen. Spiritual support was not significantly related to well-being for low life-stress subsamples. The implications of the findings for future research and intervention are discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Maton, K. I.
- Venue
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1989-09
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 310
- ISSN
- 0021-8294 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2329857004
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 6.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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