Faith Factors and Internal Health Locus of Control in Patients Prior to Open-heart Surgery

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4226776
AutoresAmy L Ai (0000-0003-3683-9070, University of Washington and University of Michigan, USA), Christopher Peterson (0000-0003-1697-5702, University of Michigan), Willard L Rodgers (University of Michigan), Terrence N Tice (University of Michigan)
Ano2005
Volume10
Fascículo5
Páginas669-676
Data de publicação2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105305055318
PMID16033788
OpenAlexW1987441593
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas32

This study explored the relationships between faith factors and internal health locus of control (IHLC) beliefs. Based on a review of different relationships of perceived control, spiritual surrender and faith factors in the liberation, we assumed a multivariate association among them. Using data from two sequential interviews and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Adult Cardiac Database, we tested these associations in a final sample of 202 middle-aged and older patients undergoing open-heart surgery. Primary findings from two-step multiple regression analyses supported hierarchical multi-faceted hypotheses. Greater internal control was positively associated with private prayer for coping, an event-specific, 'vicarious' control strategy, but negatively related to subjective religiosity, general faith measure controlling for other confounders, especially cardiac-significant ones

Confounding · Faith · Locus of control · Religiosity · Surrender · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Internal Medicine · Social Psychology