Explaining the relationship between post-critical beliefs and sense of coherence in Polish young, middle, and late adults.
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.
Department of Social Psychology and Psychology of Religion, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950, Lublin, Poland, zarzycka@kul.lublin.pl.
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Zarzycka
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult