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https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2017.291

RELATIONSHIP OF RELIGIOUSNESS AND RELIGIOUS COPING WITH QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG WAR TRAUMA SURVIVORS

Senadin Fadilpašić orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-668X ; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Maleč ; Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma Džubur-Kulenović ; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sažetak

Background: Long-term posttraumatic outcomes such as quality of life are dependent on a series of factors from the very
exposure to traumatic events and stress appraisals, personality traits, posttraumatic growth, symptoms of Posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) and different coping strategies to religiousness and religious coping styles. Except of exposure to traumatic events
and related stress, all other variables may have indirect mediating effects on long-term posttraumatic outcomes. The main aim of this
cross-sectional study is to explore relative independent contribution of these variables in the explanation of quality of life among war
trauma survivors, with a special emphasis on the variables of religiousness and religious coping.
Subjects and methods: The research was conducted on 353 subjects who experienced war related traumatic events during the
war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The data was collected through several self-report measuring instruments: Manchester
Short Assessment of Quality of Life, Stressors Check List (SCL); Religiousness Scale, Social Support Resources Scale; Religious
Problem-Solving Scale, Brief RCOPE, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory and Mississippi Scale for PTSD.
Results: According to the results of the study, experience of loss and frequent exposure to war trauma and high levels on the
primary stress appraisals, self-directing coping style and PTSD-symptoms were associated with lower perceived quality of life
among the subjects. High levels of extrinsic religious orientation, effect of religiousness on social behavior, positive religious coping
and posttraumatic growth were associated with higher perceived quality of life among subjects. These variables showed significant
independent contribution to the prediction of the values on quality of life.
Conclusions: Results of the study have a scientific significance in understanding the importance and mediating role of religiousness
and religious coping for quality of life perception as one of long-term posttraumatic outcomes. Effects of religiousness on social
behavior and positive religious coping showed particularly significant contribution across all prediction models for the quality of life.

Ključne riječi

war trauma; PTSD; religiousness; social support; religious coping; quality of life

Hrčak ID:

187289

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/187289

Datum izdavanja:

26.9.2017.

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