Title:
Latter-day Saint and other Christian spirituality, religiosity, personality and self-efficacy as predictors of emergency preparedness and subjective well-being
Author:
Ann Rhode Rothlisberger
Thesis Advisor:
K. Elizabeth Oakes
Committee Member:
Ralph L. Piedmont
Committee Member:
Geraldine M. Fialkowski
Committee Member:
C. Kevin Gillespie
Committee Member:
James Buckley
Committee Member:
Thomas Rodgerson
Committee Member:
Leo Francis Fenzel
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2009
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
The relationship of spirituality, religiosity, personality, self-efficacy, and preparedness to subjective well-being is the focus of this research project. The role that Latter-day Saint church history, teachings, and community have on member preparedness was thought to cause different outcomes when compared with other Christians. Participants included 160 Latter-day Saints and 140 members of other Christian denominations. The majority of respondents were female (63.3%) with a male response of 36.7%. The age range of the participants was between 17 years and 86 years of age with a mean age of 47.26. Measures used in the study were: the ASPIRES (Piedmont, 2004a), the Bi-Polar Adjective Rating Scale (Piedmont, 1995), the Emergency Preparedness Scale developed for use in this study, the Self-Efficacy Scale (Sherer and Maddux, 1982), the Affect Balance Scale (Bradburn, 1969), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin, 1985) and a demographic questionnaire. Differences were found between the Latter-day Saint and the Other Christian group with respect to the above variables. Religiosity and spirituality had significant effects on satisfaction with life and preparedness for the Latter-day Saints. For the same group, the personality variables predicted self-efficacy, which in turn predicted affect balance, satisfaction with life and preparedness. The other Christian group showed personality predicting self-efficacy, which in turn predicted subjective well-being. These findings suggest that religion can imbue behaviors with religious and spiritual connotation, which may provide mental health professionals with insight when working with people of different faith persuasions.
Subject:
Religiousness
Subject:
Self-efficacy--Religious aspects--Christianity
Subject:
Self-efficacy--Religious aspects--Mormon Church
Subject:
Survival--Religious aspects--Christianity
Subject:
Survival--Religious aspects--Mormon Church
Subject:
Happiness--Religious aspects--Christianity
Subject:
Happiness--Religious aspects--Mormon Church
Subject:
Christians--Psychology
Subject:
Mormons--Psychology
Subject:
Big Five Model
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Pastoral Counseling
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Identifier:
RothlisbergerAR-09
