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Religiousness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescence

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  • Oleś Maria
  • Woźny Mariusz

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Human religiousness is a complex and multidimensional reality embedded in basic human needs and connected with people’s desires, anxieties, and hopes. The aim of the paper is to assess religiousness, considered in terms of meaning and cognitive emotion regulation strategies, in adolescents. The religious meaning system is a multidimensional construct encompassing convictions, beliefs, emotional connotations, and the rules of worship. In situations of negative events or unpleasant experiences, young people resort to various coping strategies. Cognitive emotion regulation strategies concern relatively stable conscious ways of regulating emotions, which consist in mentally handling the incoming information that evoke emotions. The study concerned young people aged 13 to 16 years (N = 130). Religiousness was assessed using D. Krok’s Religious Meaning System Questionnaire (RMSQ) and cognitive coping strategies were measured using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) by N. Garnefski and V. Kraaij. The results show that there are relations between religiousness, understood in terms of the young participants’ meaning system, and adaptive as well as maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. The results of the study are discussed in the light of theory and research.

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  • Oleś Maria & Woźny Mariusz, 2015. "Religiousness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescence," Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, Sciendo, vol. 21(1-2), pages 35-62, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:jpepsi:v:21:y:2015:i:1-2:p:35-62:n:2
    DOI: 10.2478/pepsi-2015-0002
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