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- ItemDeconversion Processes and Quality of Life among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support(2021) Zarzycka, Beata; Puchalska-Wasyl, Małgorzata; Łysiak, MałgorzataDuring adolescence, biological, psychological, and social changes naturally propel youth to confront religious matters and form outlooks, moral beliefs, and religious attitudes. However, it is not uncommon for them to manifest changes of affiliation with a religious group or a total removal of all religious expressions within their lives. In Poland, a decline in the level of religiosity of young people has been reported for years. This study aimed to analyze how processes of deconversion affect adolescents’ quality of life. In total, 272 respondents aged between 14 and 18 (M = 15.74, SD = 1.14) participated in the research. The Adolescent Deconversion Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents were applied. The results showed that existential emptiness and faith abandonment predicted lower adolescent satisfaction, since they weakened the sense of family support. However, moral criticism predicted higher social integration, because adolescents who criticize moral rules taught by religion had a stronger sense of peer support.
- ItemReligious Support and Psychological Functioning in a Polish Sample(2021) Zarzycka, Beata; Tychmanowicz, Anna; Korulczyk, Tomasz; Bjorck, Jeffrey P.A growing body of research shows that religious support is relevant to psychological functioning. The Religious Support Scale (RSS; Fiala et al., 2002) measures this construct. Reliability and validity for the RSS have been supported in Protestant and Jewish samples. We examined religious support’s relationship to psychological functioning in a Polish Catholic sample in two studies. To do so, we developed a Polish translation (the Polish Religious Support Scale; PRSS). In Study 1, we examined the PRSS’s internal structure using exploratory factor analyses and assessed reliability. Based on favorable results, we used the PRSS to examine the effects of religious support on psychological functioning after controlling for instrinsic religiousness. Results supported convergent and incremental validity, whereby religious support remained significantly associated with psychological well-being after controlling for religiousness. In Study 2, we replicated the reliability of the PRSS, further supported its factorial validity via confirmatory factor analyses, and also supported convergent validity via religious support’s association with multiple measures of religious and psychological well-being. Moreover, religious support remained significantly related to well-being even after controlling social support variance, again supporting incremental validity and extending religious support’s generalizability to Polish Catholics. Findings are discussed in terms of clinical and/or pastoral applications, with implications for future research.