title: The Role of Meaning in Life Within the Relations of Religious Coping and Psychological Well-Being.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine whether meaning in life understood in terms of presence, search, and personal meaning is a mediator in the relationships between religious coping and psychological well-being. Associations of religiousness and psychological well-being are complex and suggest the existence of meaning and purpose in their internal structures. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, presence of meaning in life was a mediator between negative coping and psychological well-being in the scope of a total score and all its dimensions. Search for meaning in life did not mediate the above relations. In Study 2, personal meaning turned out to be a partial mediator between negative coping and psychological well-being. These findings suggest that meaning in life is a crucial element of religious coping and psychological well-being that is used by people as a part of their meaning system to cope with life's difficulties and challenges.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Family Sciences, Opole University, ul. Drzymały 1a, 35-342, Opole, Poland. dkrok@uni.opole.pl.
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krok
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Meaning in life; Psychological well-being; Purpose and significance; Religious coping