Title:
The relation between perceived parents' religiousness and their emerging-adult children's psychological adjustment issues by way of perceived marital functioning
Author:
Eileen Tam
Committee Member:
Carolyn Barry
Committee Member:
Ralph Piedmont
Committee Member:
Theresa DiDonato
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2013
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
Although scholars have examined marital functioning (i.e., marital satisfaction and marital conflict) of both interfaith and intrafaith couples, they have given little attention to children of interfaith and intrafaith couples, as well as the association between parents’ religious affiliation or religiousness and the children’s psychological adjustment. While the psychological adjustment of children and adolescents has been minimally studied, research concentrating on the emerging-adult population (i.e. ages 18 to 29) is even more lacking. To address these particular limitations in the literature, the current study examined the association between emerging adults' perceived parental religiousness, perceived marital functioning (of their parents), and emerging adults' selfreported psychological adjustment. Given that religion has been shown to play an important role in individuals' psychological adjustment, the emerging adults’ own level of religiousness in relation to their psychological adjustment issues also was examined. A total of 233 emerging-adult participants were included in the current study. Each participant completed a demographics questionnaire as well as four measures—The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments, the Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict, an adapted version of the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test, and the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory. Results of the current study demonstrated that emerging adults with intrafaith parents perceived higher levels of maternal and paternal marital adjustment compared to emerging adults with interfaith parents. Furthermore, the results showed that as the level of perceived maternal and paternal religiousness increased across participants, the level of perceived marital conflict decreased. In addition, as the perceived level of paternal religiousness increased, both the level of iii perceived paternal and maternal marital adjustment increased. Further, results demonstrated that as the level of perceived maternal and paternal marital adjustment increased across participants, the level of psychological adjustment issues among emerging adults decreased. Also, the current study indicated that European Americans perceived their mothers to have higher levels of marital adjustment and perceived that their parents would report less marital conflict than did ethnic minorities. Lastly, the hypotheses that as the level of perceived maternal religiousness increased, so would the level of perceived maternal and paternal marital adjustment were supported through correlational results, but significant relations were not found in the SEM model.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
TamE-13
