<p>Religious faith has been identified as a
protective factor against negative psychological outcomes and is associated
with a range of positive mental and physical health outcomes. While religion is
thought to confer psychological benefits to believers in part by enhancing
emotion regulation abilities and providing faith-based regulatory methods such
as religious coping, these associations have not been examined empirically.
This may be due to a lack of measures that are appropriate for use in repeated
measures contexts, which are needed for accurate assessment of dynamic
constructs such as emotions and regulation. This study employed
generalizability theory in a sample (N = 146) collected in daily dairy format
over 21 days to determine the reliability of commonly used measures of
religiosity and religious coping at the daily level. Once reliability was
established, varying time scales were used in a multilevel modeling framework
to examine the associations among intrinsic religiosity, religious coping,
positive and negative affect, and difficulties in emotion regulation. Positive
religious coping (PRC) measured at baseline, same day, and a 1-day lag was
associated with higher levels of daily positive affect, though PRC was also
associated with negative affect when measured on the same day. Negative
religious coping (NRC) measured at baseline predicted lower levels of daily
positive affect and was associated with higher levels of negative affect when
measured on the same day and a 1-day lag. NRC was also associated with higher
levels of difficulties in emotion regulation at all measurement periods, though
PRC and intrinsic religiosity were not significantly associated with emotion
regulation difficulties. While not associated with daily positive or negative
affect, intrinsic religiosity was found to enhance the effect of positive
affect inertia. These results did not support the conceptualization that
religiosity broadly promotes adaptive emotion regulation, but rather that
intrinsic religiosity may increase positive affect by amplifying the effects of positive affect inertia.
Additional work is needed with increased measurement occasions to fully
understand the temporal associations among these constructs.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/9116915 |
| Date | 16 October 2019 |
| Creators | Alison M Haney (7046648) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/Emotion_Regulation_and_Religiosity_A_Repeated_Measures_Approach/9116915 |
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