Associations of self-esteem with different aspects of religiosity and spirituality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ceskoslovenskapsychologie.cz/index.php/csps/article/view/35/17" target="_blank" >https://ceskoslovenskapsychologie.cz/index.php/csps/article/view/35/17</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.65.1.73" target="_blank" >10.51561/cspsych.65.1.73</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Associations of self-esteem with different aspects of religiosity and spirituality

Original language description

Objectives. Religiosity and spirituality (R/S) are associated with many dimensions of human life and could contribute to one&apos;s self-esteem; however, there is no certainty that this is also applicable to non-religious countries. Therefore, the aim of the study was to explore the association of different aspects of R/S with self-esteem in a secular environment. Participants and setting. An online sample of 464 Czech respondents aged 15 and over (mean age 30.7; SD=12.63; 27.2% men) participated in the survey. Self-esteem, religiosity, religious attendance, frequency of prayer, negative religious coping, image of God and spirituality were measured. Results. Regular prayer, spirituality (per standard deviation, SD), a low level of religious struggles (per SD) and a positive God image (per SD) were associated with higher self-esteem, with odds ratios ranging from 1.28 to 2.16 (p&lt;0.05 to p&lt;0.001). In contrast, compared to non-religious respondents, religious respondents had an approximately 60% lower chance of having a high level of self-esteem (p&lt;0.05). However, a combination of R and S showed that while religious/spiritual respondents did not differ significantly from non-religious respondents, religious/non-spiritual respondents had approximately 79% lower chance of having good self-esteem (p&lt;0.001). Study limitations. The main limitation of this study is that it did not reach a representative sample, which limits the generalizability of the findings to the whole population. This is also the first study using this kind of research approach, which, however, limits the interpretation of results. Moreover, it is a cross-sectional study, so any conclusions on causality cannot be made, and the questionnary used only self-report measures, which could be influenced by a social desirability bias.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CESKOSLOVENSKA PSYCHOLOGIE

ISSN

0009-062X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

65

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

73-85

UT code for WoS article

000640232400006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105242797