The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events

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Brightman, A. (2015). The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events. Unc Charlotte Electronic Theses And Dissertations.
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Abstract

Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to others, appreciate life, perceive their personal strength, experience new possibilities for living, and experience spirituality. The current research study examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the overall process of posttraumatic growth. The results indicate that spiritual beliefs are positively related to the experience of core belief disruption: the more overall religious centrality that individuals reported, the more core belief disruption was endorsed. Results of regression analyses revealed that less endorsement of the religious centrality dimension of public practice predicted increased reports of core beliefs disruption. Additionally, regression analyses revealed that more reports of private practice of religion predicted increased endorsement of core belief disruption. Religious centrality, as a whole, was a positive predictor of posttraumatic growth, but none of the dimensions of religious centrality emerged as individual predictors of posttraumatic growth. This finding indicates that the religious centrality dimensions of public and private practice are related to the process of core belief disruption that leads to posttraumatic growth.

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Author

Brightman, Alexis

Title

The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events

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1 online resource (72 pages) : PDF

Date

2015

Degree Granting Institution

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract

Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to others, appreciate life, perceive their personal strength, experience new possibilities for living, and experience spirituality. The current research study examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the overall process of posttraumatic growth. The results indicate that spiritual beliefs are positively related to the experience of core belief disruption: the more overall religious centrality that individuals reported, the more core belief disruption was endorsed. Results of regression analyses revealed that less endorsement of the religious centrality dimension of public practice predicted increased reports of core beliefs disruption. Additionally, regression analyses revealed that more reports of private practice of religion predicted increased endorsement of core belief disruption. Religious centrality, as a whole, was a positive predictor of posttraumatic growth, but none of the dimensions of religious centrality emerged as individual predictors of posttraumatic growth. This finding indicates that the religious centrality dimensions of public and private practice are related to the process of core belief disruption that leads to posttraumatic growth.

Genre

masters theses

Subjects--Topics

Psychology
Religion
Spirituality

Degree

M.A.

Keywords

Core Beliefs
Posttraumatic Growth
Religious Centrality
Spiritual Beliefs
Trauma

Subject Area

Psychology

Advisor(s)

Tedeschi, Richard
Cann, Arnie

Committee Members

McAnulty, Richard

Degree Note

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2015.

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