Avaliação da relação da religiosidade e regulação emocional por meio de análise de mediação

Abstract

Regulating emotions is related to reducing or increasing emotional states. To this end, regulation strategies are used, the most used being reassessment and suppression. Cognitive reappraisal (CR) involves cognitive change with the construction of a new meaning focusing on the antecedent of the situation that evoked the emotion, and expressive suppression (SE) is characterized by the inhibition of expressive behavior of emotion. Studies address religious practices those can influence the way adherents regulate emotions, in addition to bringing benefits on hope, happiness and wellbeing. In this investigation, we sought to observe the extent to which positive affect and religious/spiritual coping mediated the relationship between religiosity and emotional regulation. The survey was carried out online, through the Google Forms platform, in a sample of 319 participants. The instruments used were: brief scale of religious/spiritual coping, Duke's religiosity scale, emotional regulation questionnaire, HAD scale for assessing the level of anxiety and depression and the scale of positive and negative affect. Religiosity was presented as a significant predictor of cognitive reassessment ß=0.267, positive affect ß=0.356 and positiv e coping ß=0.843. The mediation model showed a significant effect of the affect mediator on the relationship between religiosity and the cognitive reappraisal strategy, but this effect was not significant on positive coping. Thus, the findings aggregate da positive aff ta for the area of emotional regulation and ect and contribute to a better understanding of the possible effects of religiosity on cognitive reappraisal, religious/spiritual coping and affective states.