Journal article
Religious Factors and Global Meaning Violation in Louisiana Flood Survivors
Traumatology (Tallahassee, Fla.), Vol.25(3), pp.152-161
09/2019
DOI: 10.1037/trm0000166
Abstract
The trauma centrality model posits that people's global beliefs, intrinsic goals, and extrinsic goals are significantly violated after encountering a traumatic event, increasing their risk for psychological problems. Very little work, to date, has examined how exposure to catastrophic flooding is related to one's global beliefs, intrinsic goals, and extrinsic goals. Furthermore, it is unclear what role religious and spirituality-related factors (e.g., positive religious coping and church-based emotional support) have on violations to global beliefs, intrinsic goals, and extrinsic goals. Data from an existing larger data set were analyzed for this cross-sectional study. Approximately 466 persons from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and its surrounding communities were sampled 1 month following the 2016 floods. Participants completed a series of self-report questionnaires via SurveyMonkey. Self-report measures assessed exposure to flooding, resource loss, positive religious coping, church-based emotional support, global beliefs, intrinsic goals, and extrinsic goals. Resource loss, positive religious coping, and church-based emotional support partially correlated with violations of global beliefs, intrinsic goals, and extrinsic goals. We also found that positive religious coping and church-based emotional support significantly moderated the relationship between resource loss and violations to global beliefs and goals. However, the moderation analyses revealed that positive religious coping and church-based emotional support exacerbated the effects between resource loss and violations to global beliefs and goals. We discuss these findings, along with limitations of the study, implications for intervention, and directions for future research.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Religious Factors and Global Meaning Violation in Louisiana Flood Survivors
- Creators
- Franco Dispenza - Georgia State UniversityEdward B. Davis - School of Psychology, Counseling, & Family Therapy, Wheaton CollegeStacey E. McElroy-Heltzel - Georgia State UniversityDon E. Davis - Georgia State UniversityMelissa Zeligman - Georgia State UniversityJamie D. Aten - Wheaton College - IllinoisJenny Hwang - Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton CollegeDaryl R. Van Tongeren - Hope CollegeJoshua N. Hook - Department of Psychology, University of North Texas
- Contributors
- Regardt J Ferreira (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Traumatology (Tallahassee, Fla.), Vol.25(3), pp.152-161
- DOI
- 10.1037/trm0000166
- ISSN
- 1534-7656
- eISSN
- 1085-9373
- Publisher
- Educational Publishing Foundation
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000925, name: John Templeton Foundation, award: 44040
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2019
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371117002771
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