Religious Coping with General Life Stressors in Persons with Same-Sex Attractions
The study of the religious lives of persons with same-sex attractions (PSSA) has recently grown. Researchers have explored ways in which PSSA use religion to deal with two commonly experienced stresses; statements that homosexuality is a violation of the sacred and the challenges of integrating reli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 30, Pages: 3-24 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religion B Religionspsycholigie B Asien-Studien B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | The study of the religious lives of persons with same-sex attractions (PSSA) has recently grown. Researchers have explored ways in which PSSA use religion to deal with two commonly experienced stresses; statements that homosexuality is a violation of the sacred and the challenges of integrating religious and sexual identities. The majority of these studies sample young adult PSSA who are religious. The present study filled a gap in the literature by examining the correlates of religious coping with a variety of general life stressors in 363 paid and volunteer American PSSA of various ages and levels of religiosity. Positive religious coping was associated with beneficial adjustment to a general life stressor, over and above demographic and general religious variables. Negative religious coping was uniquely related to poorer outcomes from a stressful event. There was a significant interaction between level of religiosity and sexual identity development in their relationship to negative religious coping. Religious adults with less sexual identity development were more likely to use negative religious coping methods as compared to more developed religious persons or nonreligious participants. There was no interaction between religiosity and sexual identity development concerning their relationship with positive religious coping. Implications and limitations of the current study are discussed. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004416987_002 |