“ Faith Is Not Enough? ” Ego-Resiliency and Religiosity as Coping Resources with Pandemic Stress—Mediation Study

Roman Ryszard Szałachowski () and Wioletta Tuszyńska-Bogucka
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Roman Ryszard Szałachowski: Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, 71-415 Szczecin, Poland
Wioletta Tuszyńska-Bogucka: Department of Human Sciences, WSEI University, 20-209 Lublin, Poland

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: Based on the concepts of Pargament’s adaptational functions of religiosity, Huber’s centrality of religiosity, and Block’s conceptualisation of ego-resiliency as psychosocial resources, a nonexperimental, moderated mediation project was designed for a group of 175 women and 57 men who voluntarily participated in an online study to determine whether and to what extent religiosity mediated or moderated the relationship between ego-resiliency and the severity of PTSD and depression during the COVID-19 epidemic. The analyses carried out showed that the studied variables, ego-resiliency and centrality of religiosity, were predictors of the intensity of some psychopathological reactions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but were not connected via a mediation relationship. Therefore, one question remains open: what is the role of ego-resiliency and the nature of the stated immunogenic effect of the centrality of religiosity in dealing with the critical threat to mental health that is the COVID-19 pandemic?

Keywords: religiosity; psychological resources; ego-resiliency; PTSD; depression; mediation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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