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Article

The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

by
Małgorzata Szcześniak
1,*,
Adam Falewicz
1,
Daria Madej
1,
Grażyna Bielecka
1,
Joanna Pracka
1 and
Radosław Rybarski
2
1
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Szczecin, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland
2
Department of Social Psychology and Psychology of Religion, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Religions 2022, 13(1), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010070
Submission received: 1 November 2021 / Revised: 24 December 2021 / Accepted: 9 January 2022 / Published: 12 January 2022
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Abstract

In comforting or distressing circumstances, individuals tend to have various perceptions of themselves. It seems that religious comfort and religious distress correlate differently with people’s self-esteem. Since the relationship between religiosity and self-esteem is not only direct but can be mediated by other factors that are recognized as buffers against adverse situations, our main goal was to verify whether dispositional gratitude may have an indirect effect on the association between both variables. The research involved data from 254 participants aged 18 to 25 (M = 21.24; SD = 2.09) and included 192 women (76%) and 62 men (24%). To measure the title variables, we used: the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6). The results showed that people who consider religion as a source of comfort express positive attitudes toward the self and recognize others’ kindness, as well. In contrast, people who consider religiosity as a cause of fear, stress, and internal strain tend to display a lower subjective sense of personal worth and lower appreciation of the positivity around them. Moreover, gratitude had a mediatory effect on the relationships between religious comfort/negative emotions toward God and self-esteem.
Keywords: religious/spiritual struggles; self-esteem; dispositional gratitude; young Catholics religious/spiritual struggles; self-esteem; dispositional gratitude; young Catholics

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Szcześniak, M.; Falewicz, A.; Madej, D.; Bielecka, G.; Pracka, J.; Rybarski, R. The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results. Religions 2022, 13, 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010070

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Szcześniak M, Falewicz A, Madej D, Bielecka G, Pracka J, Rybarski R. The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results. Religions. 2022; 13(1):70. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010070

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Szcześniak, Małgorzata, Adam Falewicz, Daria Madej, Grażyna Bielecka, Joanna Pracka, and Radosław Rybarski. 2022. "The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results" Religions 13, no. 1: 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010070

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Szcześniak, M., Falewicz, A., Madej, D., Bielecka, G., Pracka, J., & Rybarski, R. (2022). The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results. Religions, 13(1), 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010070

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