Religiosity and spirituality as resiliency resources: Moderation, mediation, or moderated mediation?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-72

  Reutter, Kirby K ^a   Bigatti, Silvia M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Mediated moderation; Religiosity; Resiliency; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895181811     PISSN: 00218294     EISSN: 14685906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12081     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Allport, Gordon W. 1950. The individual and his religion. New York: Macmillian.
2. American Psychiatric Association. 2000. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th ed., rev. Arlington, VA: APA.
3. Aten, Jamie D. and Mark M. Leach . 2008. Spirituality and the therapeutic process: A comprehensive resource from intake through termination. New York: Routledge.
4. Baron, Reuben M. and David A. Kenny . 1986. The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 51(6):1173-82.
5. Bartoli, Eleonora. 2007. Religious and spiritual issues in psychotherapy practice: Training the trainer. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 44(1):54-65.
6. Bjelland, Ingvar, Alv A. Dahl, Tone Hangen Haug, and Dag Neckelmann . 2002. The validity of the hospital anxiety and depression scale: An updated literature review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 52(2):69-77.
7. Bromet, Evelyn, Laura Helena Andrade, Irving Hwang, Nancy A. Sampson, Jordi Alonso, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Koen Demyttenaere, Chiyi Hu, Noboru Iwata, Aimee N. Karam, Jagdish Kaur, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Daphna Levinson, Herbert Matschinger, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Mark Oakley Browne, Jose Posada-Villa, Maria Carmen Viana, David R. Williams, and Ronald C. Kessler . 2011. Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode. BMC Medicine 9:90. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-9-90.pdf.
8. Carlson, Charles R., Panaylota E. Bacaseta, and Dexter A. Simanton . 1988. A controlled evaluation of devotional meditation and progressive relaxation. Journal of Psychology and Theology 16(4):362-68.
9. Cohen, Sheldon, Tom Kamarck, and Robin Mermelstein . 1983. A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 24(4):385-96.
10. Commerford, Mary Catherine and Marvin Reznikoff . 1996. Relationship of religiosity and perceived social support to self-esteem and depression in nursing home residents. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied 130(1):35-50.
11. Edwards, Anne B., Julie Ramisch, Maria Dahnka, and Dana Turner . 2008. Seeking spiritual support as a mediator between positive meaning and depression in caregivers of people with dementia. Paper presented at the annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.
12. Fabricatore, Anthony N., Paul J. Handal, and L. Mickey Fenzel . 2000. Personal spirituality as a moderator of the relationship between stressors and subjective well-being. Journal of Psychology and Theology 28(3):221-28.
13. Frazier, Patricia A., Andrew P. Tix, and Kenneth E. Barron . 2004. Testing moderator and mediator effects in counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology 51(1):115-34.
14. Gall, Terry Lynn and Mark W. Comblat . 2002. Breast cancer survivors give voice: A qualitative analysis of spiritual factors in long-term adjustment. Psycho-Oncology 11(6):524-35.
15. Gall, Terry Lynn, Claire Charbonneau, Neil Henry Clarke, Karen Grant, Anjali Joseph, and Lisa Shouldice . 2005. Understanding the nature and role of spirituality in relation to coping and health: A conceptual framework. Canadian Psychology /Psychologie Canadienne 46(2):88-104.
16. Gall, Terry Lynn, Rosa Maria Miguez de Renart, and Bonnie Boonstra . 2000. Religious resources in long-term adjustment to breast cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology 18(2):21-38.
17. Gaskins, Susan and L. Forté . 1995. The meaning of hope: Implications for nursing practice and research. Journal of Gerontological Nursing 27(3):17-24.
18. Gullatte, Mary Magee, Otis Brawley, Anita Kinney, Barbara Powe, and Kathi Mooney . 2010. Religiosity, spirituality and cancer fatalism beliefs on delay in breast cancer diagnosis in African American women. Journal of Religious Health 49(1):62-72.
19. Hass, Jeffrey K. and Tony Walter . 2007. Parental grief in three societies: Networks and religiosity as social supports in mourning. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 54(3):179-98.
20. Hayward, R. David, Amy D. Owen, Harold G. Koenig, David C. Steffens, and Martha E. Payne . 2012. Religion and the presence and severity of depression in older adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 20(2):188-92.
21. Highfield, Martha E. F. 1992. Spiritual health of oncology patients: Nurse and patient perspectives. Cancer Nursing 15(1):1-8.
22. Kim, Youngmee and Larry Seidlitz . 2002. Spirituality moderates the effect of stress on emotional and physical adjustment. Personality and Individual Differences 32(8):1377-90.
23. Koenig, Harold G., Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson . 2001. Handbook of religiosity and health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Lazarus, Richard S. and Susan Folkman . 1984. Stress, appraisal, and coping. New York: Spring.
25. Leach, Chris, David White, Ruth Sims, and David Cottrell . 2000. Hospital anxiety and depression scale for use with adolescents. British Journal of Psychiatry 177(1):89.
26. MacKinnon, David P., Ghulam Warsi, and James H. Dwyer . 1995. A simulation study of mediated effect measures. Multivariate Behavioral Research 30(1):41-62.
27. Mann, Joshua R., Jana Mannan, Luis Antonio Quiñones, Allyson A. Palmer, and Myriam Torres . 2010. Religiosity, spirituality, social support, and perceived stress in pregnant and postpartum Hispanic women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing: Clinical Scholarship for the Care of Women, Childbearing Families, and Newborns 39(6):645-57.
28. Maton, Kenneth I. 1989. The stress-buffering role of spiritual support: Cross-sectional and prospective investigations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28(3):310-23.
29. Nelson, Christian J., Colleen M. Jacobson, Mark I. Weinberger, Vidhya Bhaskaran, Barry Rosenfeld, William Breitbart, and Andrew Roth . 2009. The role of spirituality in the relationship between religiosity and depression in prostate cancer patients. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 38(2):105-14.
30. Pargament, Kenneth I. 1997. The psychology of religiosity and coping: Theory, research, practice. New York: Guilford Press.
31. Park, Crystal L. and Lawrence H. Cohen . 1993. Religious and non-religious coping with the death of a friend. Cognitive Therapy and Research 17(6):561-77.
32. Preacher, Kristopher J. and Andrew F. Hayes . 2008. Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models. Behavior Research Methods 40(3):879-91.
33. Preacher, Kristopher J., Derek D. Rucker, and Andrew F. Hayes . 2007. Addressing moderated mediation hypotheses: Theory, methods, and prescriptions. Multivariate Behavioral Research 42(1):185-227.
34. Roberti, Jonathan W., Lisa N. Harrington, and Eric A. Storch . 2006. Further psychometric support for the 10-item version of the perceived stress scale. Journal of College Counseling 9(2):135-47.
35. Rowatt, Wade C. and Lee A. Kirkpatrick . 2002. Two dimensions of attachment to God and their relation to affect, religiosity and personal constructs. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41(4):637-51.
36. Siegel, Karolynn and Eric W. Schrinshaw . 2002. The perceived benefits of religious and spiritual coping among older adults living with HIV/AIDS. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41(1):91-102.
37. Smith, Timothy B., Michael E. McCullough, and Justin Poll . 2003. Religiousness and depression: Evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events. Psychological Bulletin 129(4):614-36.
38. Tan, Siang-Yang and W. Brad Johnson . 2004. Spiritually oriented cognitive-behavioral therapy. In Religion and the clinical practice of psychology, edited by E. P. Shafranske, pp. 77-103. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
39. Underwood, Lynn G. and Jeanne A. Teresi . 2002. The daily spiritual experience scale: Development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 24(1):22-33.
40. Waldron-Perrine, Brigid, Lisa J. Rapport, Robin A. Hanks, Mark Lumley, Sarah-Jane Meachen, and Paul Hubbarth . 2011. Religiosity and spirituality in rehabilitation outcomes among individuals with traumatic brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology 56(2):107-16.
41. Walker, Donald F., Richard L. Gorsuch, and Siang-Yang Tan . 2005. Therapists' use of religious and spiritual interventions in Christian counseling: A preliminary report. Counseling and Values 49(2):107-19.
42. Wallace, K. and E. Lahti . 2004. Spirituality as a mediator of the relation between perceived stress and life satisfaction. Gerontologist 44(1):567-67.
43. Worthington, Everett L. 1988. Understanding the values of religious clients: A model and its application to counseling. Journal of Counseling Psychology 35(2):166-74.
44. Worthington, Everett L., Nathaniel G. Wade, Terry L. Hight, Jennifer S. Ripley, Michael E. McCullough, Jack W. Berry, Michelle M. Schmitt, James T. Berry, Kevin H. Bursley, and Lynn O'Connor . 2003. The religious commitment inventory-10: Development, refinement, and validation of a brief scale for research and counseling. Journal of Counseling Psychology 50(1):84-96.
45. Young, J. Scott, Craig S. Cashwell, and Julia Shcherbakova . 2000. The moderating relationship of spirituality on negative life events and psychological adjustment. Counseling and Values 45(1):49-57.
46. Zigmond, A. S. and R. Philip Snaith . 1983. The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 67(6):361-70.
47. Zinnbauer, Brian J. and Kenneth I. Pargament . 2005. Religiousness and spirituality. In Handbook of the psychology of religiosity and spirituality, edited by R. F. Paloutzian and C. L. Park, pp. 21-42. New York: Guilford Press.