Surrender to God and Stress: A Possible Link Between Religiosity and Health
Surrender to God and Stress: A Possible Link Between Religiosity and Health
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025109
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Ermakova, Anna V.
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作者：
Clements, Andrea D.;Ermakova, Anna V.
大量证据表明，压力预示着健康状况不佳，而广义的宗教信仰通常预示着健康状况良好。宗教信仰对健康产生积极影响的一种机制可能是通过减少或防止压力反应，而投降(向上帝投降)是一种衡量宗教信仰程度的指标，可以预测压力水平的降低。本研究以两个样本为研究对象，探讨一种宗教性特征(投降)与压力之间的关系。研究一的被试为460名(306名女性)南阿巴拉契亚本科生，他们于2009年春季在网上完成了投降量表(Wong-McDonald&Gorso，2000)和状态特质焦虑问卷(StAI，Spielberger，1983)。研究2采用了230名孕妇的高危(低收入和/或高怀孕风险)样本，她们在怀孕早期的第一次研究接触期间完成了投降量表和产前心理社会概况(PPP，Curry，Campbell，&Christian，1994)，其中包含11个项目的压力测量。等级回归分析表明，自首与STAI和PPP的压力始终呈负相关。这些发现在两个方面有助于目前对宗教信仰健康协会的理解。首先，他们支持投降及其相关的较低压力水平，将其作为宗教信仰影响健康的机制进行探索。其次，研究结果支持探索通过增加据称信奉宗教的个人的投降来减轻压力的潜力。
An abundance of evidence supports that stress predicts poor health, and religiosity, broadly defined, typically predicts good health. It is possible that one mechanism by which religiosity positively impacts health is through reduction in or prevention of the stress response, and that Surrender (Surrender to God) is a measure that captures aspects of religiosity that would predict lowered stress levels. In the present investigation, two samples were studied in order to investigate the relationship between one characterization of religiosity (Surrender) and stress. Participants in Study I were 460 (306 female) Southern Appalachian undergraduate university students who completed the Surrender Scale (Wong-McDonald & Gorsuch, 2000) and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI, Spielberger, 1983) online during spring 2009. Study 2 utilized a high-risk (low income and/or high pregnancy risk) sample of 230 pregnant women involved in a longitudinal study who completed the Surrender Scale and the Prenatal Psychosocial Profile (PPP, Curry, Campbell, & Christian, 1994), which contains an 11-item stress measure, during their first research contact early in pregnancy. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that Surrender was consistently inversely related to stress on both the STAI and the PPP. These findings contribute to the current understanding of the religiosity health association in two ways. First, they offer support for Surrender and its associated lower stress levels to be explored as a mechanism by which religiosity influences health. Second, findings support the exploration of the potential for stress reduction through increasing Surrender in reportedly religious individuals.