ArticleJournal of religion and health2021
Resilience in the Aftermath of Childhood Abuse? Changes in Religiosity and Adulthood Psychological Distress.
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- Childhood predictors of religious reading: a cross-national analysis in the Global Flourishing Study.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood maltreatment and mid-life cognitive functioning: divergent psychosocial pathways linked to ethnoracial group.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- The Relationship of Childhood Trauma and Spiritual Well-Being with Dysfunctional Thoughts in Individuals with Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Religion, spirituality, and DNA methylation in HPA-axis genes among Hispanic/Latino adults.Epigenomics · 2025Article
- Mapping resilience: a scoping review on mediators and moderators of childhood adversity with a focus on gender patterns.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Do Religion and Spirituality Buffer the Effect of Childhood Trauma on Depressive Symptoms? Examination of a South Asian Cohort from the USA.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Childhood Adversity and Passive Suicidal Ideation in Later Life in the United States: Does Religious Attendance Matter?Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Childhood Abuse, Goal-Striving Stress and Self-Esteem: An Explanatory Role for Perceptions of Divine Control?Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Masculine Discrepancy Stress, Subjective Well-Being, and the Buffering Role of Religiosity.American journal of men's healthArticle
- Loneliness, ageism, and mental health: The buffering role of resilience in seniors.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Of all the forms of adversity experienced during childhood, childhood abuse is known to have the largest impacts on mental health. Yet, we have a limited understanding of factors that may cushion the blow of these early insults, and it remains unclear whether stability or increases/decreases in religiosity facilitate or hinder the ability of religion/spirituality to act as a buffer. Using two waves of MIDUS data, results suggest that increases in positive religious coping (seeking comfort through religion/spirituality) during adulthood buffer the association between childhood physical and emotional abuse on psychological distress, while decreases in religious comfort exacerbate it. Religious attendance had no discernible buffering effect. Taken together, results show that the stress-moderating effects of religion depend on changes in religious coping processes over the life course.
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