Explaining the relationship between post-critical beliefs and sense of coherence in Polish young, middle, and late adults

J Relig Health. 2014 Jun;53(3):834-48. doi: 10.1007/s10943-013-9680-7.

Abstract

The subject of the presented research is the analysis of relations between Post-Critical Belief and Sense of Coherence in women and men in early, middle, and late adulthood. Six hundred and thirty-six individuals participated in the research, 332 women and 304 men, at the age of 18-79 years. We applied the Post-Critical Belief scale by Hutsebaut (J Empir Theol 9:48-66, 1996) and the Sense of Coherence scale (SOC-29) by Antonovsky (Soc Sci Med 36:725-733, 1993). The results suggest that the salutogenic function of religiosity is related to age and gender--in women, it is most strongly marked in late, and in men, in middle adulthood.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aging / psychology*
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Poland
  • Religion and Psychology*
  • Religion*
  • Sense of Coherence*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Young Adult