Corpos separados e mente sã: o papel do enfrentamento religioso no divórcio

• Autor(a) principal: Amorim, Sonáira Cardoso de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/11740
• topic: Divórcio; Coping-religioso; Bem-Estar Psicológico; Divorce; Coping-Religious; Psychological welfare; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

The humans are a social being, therefore does not live in isolation. They need to be around other people, which is an aspect of their own socialization process along with the self-preservation instinct, which instigates them to seek a mate, in other words, get married. Although the divorce seems to be the only option for a couple that considers the idea of staying married as something impossible to achieve; divorce seems to always be a painful and stressful process. Thus, preserve health in general amid the collapse is something that perhaps the individual can not do alone or only with their internal resources. In some cases, the subject seeks support in the religion to tackle the crisis. The mechanisms found in religion are known in the literature as a religious/spiritual coping - which are coping and adaptation strategies, involving cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage situations and internal demands that go beyond the individual's personal resources. Based on that, the present study has the general objective to find out how the strategies of religious/spiritual coping affects the health of individuals in divorce; specifically, we intend to identify which religious/spiritual coping factors are more evident in individuals who have experienced a divorce; and investigate the socio demographic influence (like gender, age, social class, religion, marriage time) in the health / psychological well-being of divorced individuals. This study included 100 subjects, aged 23 to 56 years, 57% female and 43% male, 65% with children, 28% have higher education, 46% are Catholic and 26% attend their religious worship for more than 31 years. As for methodology, we used a socio demographic questionnaire, the Religious/Spiritual coping scale and the GHQ-12. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0. In addition, we performed a Pearson correlation, aiming to seek the relationship among the dimensions of the variables, Test T Student to compare means and MANOVA to verify the influence of socio demographic variables. The results show that there is no significant difference for any of the dimensions of the CRE and GHQ regarding whether participants having children or not and about the gender. However, those who reported going to church four times or more showed higher rates in positive dimensions of religious/spiritual coping. Participants also had a higher prevalence of positive dimension of CRE than the negative dimension; may note that people who have showed a positive religious/spiritual coping strategies, also showed a positive correlation with the anxiety dimension. While negative religious coping strategies showed significant positive correlation with the dimensions of the GHQ - anxiety and depression. This shows that, as more people seek to address their problems in partnership with religion, seeking comfort and spiritual support will demonstrate less anxiety and depression, thus obtaining more general health.