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Attachment to God and Psychological Adjustment: God’s Responses and Our Coping Strategies

Journal of Religion and Health, 2019
An outgrowth of research has established an association between attachment to God dimensions and psychosocial indices. There has been a dearth of studies, however, examining variables that mediate these relationships. This study examined three categories of coping strategies (emotion-focused, problem-focused, and dysfunctional) as mediators in the ...
Stacy C Parenteau
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God Attachment, Mother Attachment, and Father Attachment in Early and Middle Adolescence

Journal of Religion and Health, 2010
The present study examined the interplay of attachment to God, attachment to mother, and attachment to father with respect to adjustment (hope, self-esteem, depression) for 130 early and 106 middle adolescents in Singapore. Results showed that the parental attachments were generally linked (in expected directions) to adjustment. God attachment, however,
Tick Ngee Sim
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Attachment to God and Social Trust

Sociological Perspectives, 2019
Research suggests that religious participation is associated with feelings of social trust. A separate line of work shows that individuals who develop secure, intimate relationships with parents, caregivers, and others have higher levels of trust than those who do not. The current study integrates these two strands of theory and research by examining (
Matt Bradshaw, Blake Victor Kent, W. Matthew Henderson, Anna Catherine Setar   +3 more
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Clinging to the Hands of a Distant God: Attachment to God in Protestant American Theology

Journal of Psychology and Theology
This study introduces a newly developed scale assessing Protestant theological beliefs on a Theological Openness/Biblical Literalism dimension (Study 1) and examines its relationship with attachment to God (Study 2). To establish validity, we conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the Protestant Theology Scale (PTS) and assessed its ...
Alicia McLean, Andrew J. Marra, Paul C. Jones, Ronald W. Wright, Rachel Limke   +4 more
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Attachment to God: The Attachment to God Inventory, Tests of Working Model Correspondence, and an Exploration of Faith Group Differences

Journal of Psychology and Theology, 2004
Recent theoretical and empirical work by Lee Kirkpatrick and others has suggested that relationship with God can be fruitfully described as an attachment bond. However, this literature has been limited by the lack of a sound theoretical and psychometric scale that operationalizes the attachment to God construct.
Richard Beck, Angie McDonald
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Attachment style, attachment to God, religiosity, and moral disengagement: a study on offenders

Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 2019
ABSTRACTThe present study investigates religiosity, moral disengagement, attachment to God, and interpersonal attachment in 30 offenders within Italian jails.
Giulio D’Urso, Irène Petruccelli, Ugo Pace   +2 more
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An Examination of Attachment to God, Individualism, Collectivism, and Differentiation of Self in Second-Generation Christian Korean Americans

Journal of psychology and theology, 2023
Constructs regarding attachment to God and differentiation of self (DoS) have a robust foundation in the literature; however, studies regarding other cultures, specifically, second-generation Christian Korean Americans (SGCKAs), are limited.
Elijah Lee, James N Sells, M. Newmeyer, Kathleen R. Arveson   +3 more
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Deliberate rumination and posttraumatic growth: the mediating role of Christian gratitude and attachment to God

Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2022
Using a community sample of 448 Christian adults with a history of trauma, the current study explored the mediating role of two religious variables, attachment to God and Christian gratitude, in the association between deliberate rumination and ...
Veola E. Vazquez, R. A. Pate, Jessica MacCallum, Marena Matta, Stephanie Zivanovic, S. Chamberlin, Teal Baker, S. Newman   +7 more
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The Role of Attachment to God in Understanding Religiosity and Generosity Among Christian Young Adults

Journal of psychology and theology, 2021
The study examined the association between religiosity and generosity, and whether it is mediated by secure attachment to God, among Christian young adults.
Ramanda Mallery Pettit, Joel Jin, A. Rosales, W. Fung, Joey J. Fung   +4 more
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