Trajectories of Religious/Spiritual Struggles Between Years 1 and 2 of College
The Predictive Role of Religious Belief Salience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12389822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua A Wilt (0000-0001-7059-6389, ,, corresponding author), Todd W Hall (0000-0002-3870-8237, Biola University), Todd Hall (0009-0001-8012-4104, ,), Kenneth I Pargament (0000-0001-8488-7291, ,), Julie Exline (0000-0003-3544-2469, ,) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 172-187 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1050-8619 • E-ISSN: 1532-7582 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10508619.2017.1362186 |
| OpenAlex | W2741509588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 69 |
Religious and spiritual struggles involve tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to religious and spiritual life. This research examined whether broad measures of religiousness predicted differences in the development and resolution of struggles over 1 year in a sample of undergraduates (N = 451) from three U.S. universities: secular public (n = 146), secular private (n = 126), and faith-based Christian (n = 179). Latent class growth analyses indicated 4 distinct trajectories of change in struggles. One group reported consistently low levels of struggles (n = 298, 66% of total sample); another developed struggles over a 1-year period (n = 100, 22%); a third reported high levels of struggles during both years (n = 19, 4%); and the final group reported resolving their struggles over 1 year (n = 34, 8%). Penalized multinomial logistic regressions indicated that religious belief salience predicted the development of struggles longitudinally. We discuss the implications of these findings
Epistemology · Faith · Multinomial logistic regression · Religious belief · Salience (neuroscience · Secularization · Sociology · Theology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |