The Moderating Relationship of Spirituality on Negative Life Events and Psychological Adjustment

By J. S. Young, Craig S. Cashwell, Julia Shcherbakova. Counseling and Values, 2000

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The authors used a path model to examine how spirituality moderates relationships between negative life experiences and psychological adjustment, operationalized for this study as levels of depression and anxiety. Results suggest that spirituality provides a significant moderating effect for both depression and anxiety. The moderating effect was stronger for depression than for anxiety.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology

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