Rosik C H
Fuller Graduate School of Psychology.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1989;28(4):251-60. doi: 10.2190/37H9-UDP5-UQRC-QHTT.
Despite the importance of religious faith to many older adults and the predictability of spousal death as an extremely distressful life experience, only a few studies have seriously focused on the relationship between religious commitment and adaptation to widowhood. The present study addressed this issue by surveying 159 elderly widowed involved in southern Californian support groups. Grief, depression, and intrinsic-extrinsic religiousness were assessed and then analyzed via hierarchical multiple regression procedures. Higher extrinsicness was found with higher levels of distress across sex, suggesting that an extrinsic orientation may set the stage for a poorer adjustment. Widowers tending to be more indiscriminately proreligious also showed higher distress levels. Greater distress was associated with poorer health after spousal death for widows and before spousal death for widowers.
尽管宗教信仰对许多老年人很重要，且配偶死亡作为一种极其痛苦的生活经历具有可预测性，但只有少数研究认真关注了宗教虔诚度与适应丧偶之间的关系。本研究通过对参与南加州支持小组的159名老年丧偶者进行调查来解决这个问题。对悲伤、抑郁和内在-外在宗教信仰进行了评估，然后通过分层多元回归程序进行分析。发现外在宗教信仰程度越高，不同性别的痛苦程度越高，这表明外在导向可能为较差的适应奠定了基础。鳏夫往往更不加区分地支持宗教，他们的痛苦程度也更高。对于寡妇来说，更大的痛苦与配偶死亡后的健康状况较差有关，而对于鳏夫来说，则与配偶死亡前的健康状况较差有关。
