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MENTAL HEALTH RELIGION & CULTURE
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 375-391Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2021.2014798
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Religious support; religiousness; social support; psychological functioning; scale validation; adaptation
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This study examined the relevance of religious support to psychological functioning among Polish Catholics. The results showed that religious support remained significantly associated with psychological well-being even after controlling for religiousness and social support. This suggests that religious support continues to be important for Polish Catholics.
Catholicism is the predominant religion in Poland, but formal religious participation has decreased in recent years. Given this decline, we examined the current relevance of religious support (i.e., support perceived from church leaders, fellow Catholics, and God) to psychological functioning among Polish Catholics. We translated the Religious Support Scale (RSS) into Polish and examined two Polish Catholic samples. In Study 1, we examined the Polish RSS's internal structure via exploratory factor analyses and assessed reliability. Based on favourable results, we examined religious support's association with psychological functioning, controlling for instrinsic religiousness. Religious support remained significantly associated with psychological well-being after controlling for religiousness. In Study 2, we further supported the Polish RSS's reliability, factorial validity, and convergent validity. Moreover, religious support remained significantly related to well-being even after controlling social support variance, further suggesting that religious support continues to be relevant among Polish Catholics.
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