ارزيابي روايي افزوده مقابله مذهبي در پيش بيني تعالي پس ضربه اي و درماندگي در دانشجويان ايراني

Evaluating Additional Validity of Religious Confrontation in Predicting Posttraumatic Growth and Distress in Iranian Students

Religious researches need to answer two questions: (1) How much are the religious constructs distinct from psychological variables? (2) How far do the religious constructs provide an insight beyond the existing psychological constructs for understanding humanʹs activity? The present research evaluates the relative share of the strategies for public confrontation and two scales for religious confrontation in predicting posttraumatic growth and distress among Iranian students. In this research, 381 MA students (275 female, 127 male) were selected through random classified multi-stage sampling from among students in three universities, i.e. Shahid Beheshti, Allama Tabatabaie and Shahed universities. For data gathering, the following devices were used: Comparative Responses Inventory (CR1), positive and negative religious confrontation scale, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), and Impact of Event Scale (1ES). The results of the analysis showed that the strategies of positive religious confrontation meaningfully explain the variables of posttraumatic growth after controlling the strategies of behavioral and attitudinal-cognitive confrontation. Furthermore, the strategies of negative religious confrontation meaningfully predict distress more than strategies of behavioral and avoidance-cognitive confrontation. On the whole, the results support the additional validity of religious confrontation in predicting positive and negative consequences.