Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality.

Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality. Stauner, N., Exline, J. J., Pargament, K. I., Wilt, J. A., & Grubbs, J. B. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11(3):291–296, February, 2019.

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Many people experience religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles following specific stressful life events (SLE). However, SLE may aggregate, gradually undermining individuals’ orienting systems. Does SLE accumulation predict greater R/S struggles? Might general religiousness buffer cumulative effects of SLE on R/S struggles? We tested these hypotheses using religiousness and 19 kinds of SLE as predictors of the 6-factor Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale. Using measurement invariance constraints on four samples from 3 universities and the Internet (total N ϭ 4,675), cumulative SLE independently predicted greater R/S struggles of all kinds in all samples equally. Thus, heightened R/S struggles tend to accompany accumulated SLE. However, the interaction of religiousness and SLE failed to predict R/S struggles, yielding no support for the buffering hypothesis. Stress-exposed populations face R/S struggles of many kinds, regardless of religiousness. We recommend tests of the buffering hypothesis targeting aspects of religious orienting systems that connect more directly to R/S struggles.

@article{stauner_stressful_2019,
	title = {Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality.},
	volume = {11},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	issn = {1943-1562, 1941-1022},
	url = {http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/rel0000189},
	doi = {10.1037/rel0000189},
	abstract = {Many people experience religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles following specific stressful life events (SLE). However, SLE may aggregate, gradually undermining individuals’ orienting systems. Does SLE accumulation predict greater R/S struggles? Might general religiousness buffer cumulative effects of SLE on R/S struggles? We tested these hypotheses using religiousness and 19 kinds of SLE as predictors of the 6-factor Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale. Using measurement invariance constraints on four samples from 3 universities and the Internet (total N ϭ 4,675), cumulative SLE independently predicted greater R/S struggles of all kinds in all samples equally. Thus, heightened R/S struggles tend to accompany accumulated SLE. However, the interaction of religiousness and SLE failed to predict R/S struggles, yielding no support for the buffering hypothesis. Stress-exposed populations face R/S struggles of many kinds, regardless of religiousness. We recommend tests of the buffering hypothesis targeting aspects of religious orienting systems that connect more directly to R/S struggles.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2019-11-01},
	journal = {Psychology of Religion and Spirituality},
	author = {Stauner, Nick and Exline, Julie J. and Pargament, Kenneth I. and Wilt, Joshua A. and Grubbs, Joshua B.},
	month = feb,
	year = {2019},
	pages = {291--296},
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