Religious Coping, Experiential Avoidance, Self-Compassion, and Post-Traumatic Stress by COVID-19: a Serial Mediation Study

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought consequences to mental health, with religiosity being a relevant coping factor in reducing the negative impact of the health crisis. Based on a convenience sample of Chilean adults, this study sought to explore the relationship between religious coping and post-trau...

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Nebentitel:Religion, Mind and Body in Latin America: Multi-and Interdisciplinary Approaches
VerfasserInnen: Fuentes-Ferrada, Reiner (VerfasserIn) ; Cerda-Planas, Catalina 1982- (VerfasserIn) ; Fernández, María Beatriz (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer International Publishing 2023
In: International journal of Latin American religions
Jahr: 2023, Band: 7, Heft: 2, Seiten: 562-573
weitere Schlagwörter:B Religious Coping
B Covid-19
B Self-compassion
B Post-traumatic Stress
B Experiential avoidance
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Zusammenfassung:The COVID-19 pandemic has brought consequences to mental health, with religiosity being a relevant coping factor in reducing the negative impact of the health crisis. Based on a convenience sample of Chilean adults, this study sought to explore the relationship between religious coping and post-traumatic stress due to COVID-19, hypothesizing that this relationship would be mediated by experiential avoidance and self-compassion. A non-experimental cross-sectional design was used, applying an online survey to 300 adults who lived in Chile. The results show that all variables are related and that experiential avoidance (EA) and self-compassion play a serial mediating role in the relationship between negative religious coping (NRC) and post-traumatic stress. Furthermore, the results showed that religious coping, experiential avoidance, self-compassion, and COVID-19 post-traumatic stress are significantly interrelated. Moreover, a serial mediation was found among the variables: higher experiential avoidance and lower level of self-compassion mediate the impact of COVID-19 post-traumatic stress in people with negative religious coping. At the end of the article, the implications of the results and how these variables interact in a serial mediation mechanism that sheds further light on the relationships between negative religious coping, mental health, and adverse situations such as COVID-19 are discussed.
ISSN:2509-9965
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s41603-022-00184-4