The Role of Self-Worth, Social Support, and Family Religious Environment in Children and Adolescents' Religious Coping following Residential Fires

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dc.contributor.authorParelkar, Monica Subhashen
dc.contributor.committeechairJones, Russell T.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHarrison, David W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberOllendick, Thomas H.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:39:58Zen
dc.date.adate2005-08-15en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:39:58Zen
dc.date.issued2005-05-10en
dc.date.rdate2005-08-15en
dc.date.sdate2005-06-14en
dc.description.abstractThe present study examined the role of religious coping efforts of children and adolescents, ages 8 to 18, following residential fire. Two types of children's religious coping, spiritually based coping and religious discontent, were examined in response to loss of resources in residential fires. The study further examined the influence and potential moderating effects of internal resources including global self-worth, as well as external resources including social support received from parents, teachers, and friends, and the family religious environment. Consistent with the general coping literature, these resources were expected to beneficially influence and predict spiritually based coping. Contrarily, the lack of these resources was expected to predict religious discontent. Children and adolescents' post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were also assessed and compared to their coping responses. Religious discontent was found to be positively associated with greater levels of loss, PTSD symptoms and negatively associated with global self-worth and low socio-economic status. It was also significantly predicted by loss and an interaction between loss and social support, where higher social support predicted lower levels of religious discontent under high levels of loss. Post hoc analyses revealed peer social support to interact significantly with loss to buffer religious discontent. Spiritually based coping was found to be significantly predicted by loss, race, age, and family religious environment, where African Americans, and children reported greater spiritually based coping than European Americans, and adolescents. Lastly, loss was significantly and negatively associated with global self-worth and positively associated with PTSD symptoms.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06142005-164228en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06142005-164228/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33571en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartParelkarVTstyleThesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectReligious copingen
dc.subjectSelf- worthen
dc.subjectAdolescentsen
dc.subjectPeer social supporten
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectLossen
dc.subjectPTSDen
dc.subjectResourcesen
dc.subjectSocial supporten
dc.subjectEnvironmenten
dc.titleThe Role of Self-Worth, Social Support, and Family Religious Environment in Children and Adolescents' Religious Coping following Residential Firesen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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