Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Szamarzewskiego 89/AB, 60-568, Poznań, Poland.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Institute of Pedagogy, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 12, 40-007, Katowice, Poland.
J Relig Health. 2024 Dec;63(6):4215-4231. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01842-3. Epub 2023 Jun 9.
Religiosity and meaning in life are recognized as factors supporting recovery from addictions. However, little is known about the moral mechanisms involved in the relationship between religiosity and meaning in life among individuals with addictions. The main purpose of this study was to test the direct and indirect (through forgiveness by God/higher power and interpersonal forgiveness) relationships between subjective religiosity and the presence of meaning in life among 80 members (72 men and 8 women) of Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) in Poland. The following measures were used: a single-item measure of subjective religiosity, subscales from the Forgiveness Scale and the Heartland Forgiveness Scale, and the Meaning in Life Questionnaire. The sequential mediation model was tested using Hayes PROCESS macro. The results showed a direct positive relationship between subjective religiosity and the presence of meaning in life. Moreover, subjective religiosity was positively related to forgiveness by God/higher power, which, in turn, directly and indirectly (through interpersonal forgiveness) predicted higher levels of the presence of meaning in life. The study suggests that among SA members, religious faith facilitates perceiving one's own life as meaningful, both directly and indirectly, through aspects of forgiveness. Members of SA may benefit from their belief in God/higher power and religiously-rooted forgiveness to support the meaning-making processes.
宗教信仰和生活意义被认为是支持成瘾者康复的因素。然而，对于宗教信仰和生活意义之间的关系中涉及的道德机制，人们知之甚少。本研究的主要目的是检验主观宗教信仰与波兰性瘾者匿名协会（SA）80 名成员（72 名男性和 8 名女性）生活意义之间的直接和间接（通过上帝/更高权力的宽恕和人际宽恕）关系。使用了以下措施：主观宗教信仰的单项衡量、宽恕量表和中心宽恕量表的子量表，以及生活意义问卷。使用 Hayes PROCESS 宏检验了顺序中介模型。结果表明，主观宗教信仰与生活意义的存在之间存在直接的正相关关系。此外，主观宗教信仰与对上帝/更高权力的宽恕呈正相关，而对上帝/更高权力的宽恕又直接和间接地（通过人际宽恕）预测了更高水平的生活意义的存在。该研究表明，在 SA 成员中，宗教信仰通过宽恕的各个方面，直接和间接地促进了他们对自己生活有意义的感知。SA 的成员可能会受益于他们对上帝/更高权力的信仰和宗教根源的宽恕，以支持意义的产生过程。
