Institute of Psychology, Opole University, Plac Staszica 1a, 45-052, Opole, Poland.
Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, Krakowska 69, 71-017, Szczecin, Poland.
J Relig Health. 2024 Dec;63(6):4110-4129. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02102-8. Epub 2024 Aug 20.
Religious struggles tend noticeably to influence the sphere of social well-being in emerging adulthood as individuals modify their religious beliefs and practices, form personal identity patterns, and rediscover new life purpose and values. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether meaning-making and meaning in life (presence and search) can serially mediate the hypothesized links between religious comfort vs. strain and social well-being. Self-report measures of religious struggles, meaning-making, meaning in life, and social well-being were completed by 368 emerging adults (aged 18 to 29, 52.2% female). The serial mediation analysis showed that the relationship between religious comfort vs. strain and social well-being was mediated by meaning-making and presence of meaning, but not by a search for meaning. These results suggest that religious struggles may represent unique aspects of developmental spiritual processes in emerging adulthood with implications for social well-being.
宗教斗争往往明显影响成年初显期的社会福利领域，因为个体改变他们的宗教信仰和实践，形成个人身份模式，并重新发现新的生活目标和价值观。本研究的目的是调查意义建构和生命意义（存在和寻求）是否可以串联中介宗教舒适与不适与社会福利之间的假设联系。368 名成年初显期个体（年龄 18 至 29 岁，52.2%为女性）完成了宗教斗争、意义建构、生命意义和社会福利的自我报告测量。序列中介分析表明，宗教舒适与不适与社会福利之间的关系由意义建构和意义的存在来中介，而不是通过寻求意义来中介。这些结果表明，宗教斗争可能代表成年初显期发展精神过程的独特方面，对社会福利有影响。
