Park C, Cohen L H, Herb L
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark 19716.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1990 Sep;59(3):562-74. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.59.3.562.
Two prospective studies were conducted to test the stress-moderating effects of intrinsic religiousness and overall religious coping on the depression and trait anxiety of Catholic and Protestant college students. Both studies found a significant cross-sectional interaction between controllable life stress and religious coping in the prediction of Catholics' depression, with religious coping serving a protective function at a high level of controllable negative events. Both studies also found a significant prospective interaction between uncontrollable life stress and intrinsic religiousness in the prediction of Protestants' depression; the relationship between uncontrollable stress and depression was positive for low intrinsic Protestants, flat for medium intrinsic Protestants, but negative for high intrinsic Protestants. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the role of religion in life stress adjustment.
进行了两项前瞻性研究，以检验内在宗教信仰和整体宗教应对方式对天主教和新教大学生抑郁和特质焦虑的压力调节作用。两项研究均发现，在预测天主教徒的抑郁时，可控生活压力与宗教应对方式之间存在显著的横断面交互作用，在可控负面事件程度较高时，宗教应对方式起到了保护作用。两项研究还发现，在预测新教徒的抑郁时，不可控生活压力与内在宗教信仰之间存在显著的前瞻性交互作用；对于内在宗教信仰程度较低的新教徒，不可控压力与抑郁之间的关系呈正相关，对于内在宗教信仰程度中等的新教徒，二者关系平缓，而对于内在宗教信仰程度较高的新教徒，二者关系呈负相关。将根据这些发现对宗教在生活压力调节中的作用的影响进行讨论。
