Explaining the Relationship Between Post-Critical Beliefs and Sense of Coherence in Polish Young, Middle, and Late Adults

Zarzycka, Beata; Rydz, Elżbieta

Explaining the Relationship Between Post-Critical Beliefs and Sense of Coherence in Polish Young, Middle, and Late Adults

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Date

2014

Authors

Zarzycka, Beata

Rydz, Elżbieta

Publisher

Springer Nature

Abstract

The subject of the presented research is the analysis of relations between Post-Critical Belief and Sense of Coherence in women and men in early, middle, and late adulthood. Six hundred and thirty-six individuals participated in the research, 332 women and 304 men, at the age of 18-79 years. We applied the Post-Critical Belief scale by Hutsebaut (J Empir Theol 9:48-66, 1996) and the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-29) by Antonovsky (Soc Sci Med 36:725-733, 1993). The results suggest that the salutogenic function of religiosity is related to age and gender — in women, it is most strongly marked in late, and in men, in middle adulthood.

Keywords

Sense of coherence, Post-critical beliefs, Religiosity

Citation

"Journal of Religion and Health", 2014, Vol. 53, nr 3, s. 834-848