Title:
Rumination mediates negative religious coping's effect on depression among adolescent females
Author:
Moshe L. Miller
Thesis Advisor:
Matthew W. Kirkhart
Committee Member:
Carolyn M. Barry
Committee Member:
Amanda M. Thomas
Committee Member:
Alison A. Papadakis
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2016
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
This study explored the ways in which religious coping, rumination, stress, and depression are related among adolescent females. The cognitive processes that one uses to cope with stress, are understood to both mediate and moderate the effect that stress has on depression levels. Rumination, and more specifically brooding which is a sub-type of rumination, has been shown to mediate and moderate the relation between stress and depression leading to the development and maintenance of depression. Other processes, such as positive and negative religious coping are negatively and positively related to depression respectively. In the current study it was hypothesized that the effect of religious coping on depression is mediated by brooding. Brooding levels were hypothesized to positively relate to negative religious coping and negatively to positive religious coping with an increase or decrease in depression as a result. Participants were 243 adolescent females ages 11-18 from two private co-educational, non-denominational private schools and from a sleep-away academic summer drama and writing camp. This study utilized a correlational and cross-sectional design structural equation model to assess the fit of the proposed model to the data. In partial support of the hypotheses, results indicated that negative religious coping's relation to depression was mediated by brooding. Positive religious coping was found to be directly negatively associated with depression, although this relation was not mediated by brooding. The findings indicate that clinical interventions for depression which look to reduce brooding should assess and reduce negative religious coping while increasing positive religious coping. This intervention may be particularly important among adolescent females given the increasing level of depression among this population and their increased engagement in spiritual and religious pursuits compared to males.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
MillerML-16
