COPING RELIGIOSO/ESPIRITUAL, EVENTOS ESTRESSORES PRECOCES E SINTOMAS PSIQUIÁTRICOS: Um estudo mediacional em protestantes

Abstract

In the literature, religiosity/spirituality (R/S) is associated with better levels of physical and mental health, because in face of stressful situations, the religious/spiritual subject can use coping strategies to manage them, such as, for example, the Religious/Spiritual Coping (RSC). When these stresses happen in childhood, they have a lasting impact on a person's life and health and are called early stressful events (ESEs). So, the present study aims to analyze the role of RSC as a mediator of childhood trauma and lower rates of depression, anxiety and stress disorders at a later stage of the life cycle. This is a descriptive study, with a cross-sectional quantitative approach. The sample was made up of 254 participants protestants who answered a form shared on the internet, which one contained the socio-demographic questionnaire, the childhood trauma questionnaire (QUESI), the Duke religiosity scale (DUREL), the depression, anxiety and stress scale (DASS21) and the brief religious/spiritual coping scale (SCOPE-14). With this, R/S proved to be a significant predictor of Total RSC (CRETOT). The mediation effect was significant for the outcomes of depression, anxiety and stress. The CRETOT mediated approximately 27.81% of the negative relationship between emotional neglect and depression, 22.5% between emotional neglect and anxiety and 30.23% between emotional neglect and stress. Moreover, no significant effect was found in the correlations for positive RSC (CREP). At the end, the results of this research shows the importance of working on the subject's spiritual dimension in psychotherapy, in addition to the data that corroborates with practices in areas of Psychology of Religion, Health, Positive and Clinical as well