Özmen Mustafa
Vocational School of Health Services, Bingol University, Bingol, Türkiye.
J Relig Health. 2025 Oct;64(5):4129-4146. doi: 10.1007/s10943-025-02427-y. Epub 2025 Aug 26.
Understanding the factors that minimize or increase the devastating effects of natural disasters on mental health is crucial. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of psychosocial dynamics that are thought to influence the transformative power of the suffering experienced by earthquake victims one year after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. The 512 participants directly affected by the consequences of the earthquake were divided into three groups: those who lost relatives in the earthquake (Group 1); those who witnessed a relative being injured in the earthquake (Group 2); and those who had to change only their city due to the earthquake (Group 3). The results showed that individuals in Group 1 and Group 2 had a lower level of transformative power of suffering than individuals in Group 3. However, the differentiation effect of the way of experiencing the earthquake according to the research variables is small. This study showed that positive religious coping positively predicts the transformative power of suffering in adult earthquake survivors and hopelessness has a mediating effect in this relationship. Moreover, the sense of meaninglessness acted as an instigating effect to the predictive effect of hopelessness on the transformative power of suffering. The results also showed that hopelessness became a stronger mediating effect when the sense of meaninglessness was high. Reducing adult earthquake victims' sense of meaninglessness may relatively strengthen the effect of positive religious coping on the transformative power of suffering through hopelessness.
了解那些能将自然灾害对心理健康的破坏性影响降至最低或使其加剧的因素至关重要。本研究的目的是探讨社会心理动态的影响，这些动态被认为会影响2023年卡赫拉曼马拉什地震一年后地震受害者所经历苦难的转化力量。512名直接受到地震后果影响的参与者被分为三组：在地震中失去亲人的人（第1组）；目睹亲人在地震中受伤的人（第2组）；以及仅因地震而不得不更换城市的人（第3组）。结果显示，第1组和第2组个体的苦难转化力量水平低于第3组个体。然而，根据研究变量，经历地震的方式的差异效应较小。本研究表明，积极的宗教应对方式能正向预测成年地震幸存者的苦难转化力量，绝望感在这种关系中起中介作用。此外，无意义感对绝望感对苦难转化力量的预测效应起到了促发作用。结果还表明，当无意义感较高时，绝望感成为更强的中介效应。降低成年地震受害者的无意义感可能会相对增强积极宗教应对方式通过绝望感对苦难转化力量的影响。
