TY - JOUR
T1 - Trajectories of religious coping from adolescence into early adulthood
T2 - Their form and relations to externalizing problems and prosocial behavior
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Castellani, Valeria
AU - Panerai, Laura
AU - Wilkens, Natalie
AU - Cohen, Adam
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - Little is known about changes in religious coping and their relations to adolescents' and young adults' functioning. In 686 Italian youths, trajectories of religious coping were identified from age 16-17 years to age 22-23 years; cohorts of youths reported at 3 of the 4 assessments. Four trajectories of religious coping were identified: decreasing, low stable, high stable, and increasing. A decline in religious coping was associated with high levels of externalizing problems at age 16-17, whereas an increase in religious coping was associated with higher externalizing problems at ages 18-19 and 20-21 years and with relatively high involvement with deviant peers. High stable religious copers were high in prosocial behavior at three ages; low stable religious copers were higher than people undergoing change in their religious coping from mid-adolescence into early adulthood. These results can expand our current thinking about religious coping and adolescent adjustment.
AB - Little is known about changes in religious coping and their relations to adolescents' and young adults' functioning. In 686 Italian youths, trajectories of religious coping were identified from age 16-17 years to age 22-23 years; cohorts of youths reported at 3 of the 4 assessments. Four trajectories of religious coping were identified: decreasing, low stable, high stable, and increasing. A decline in religious coping was associated with high levels of externalizing problems at age 16-17, whereas an increase in religious coping was associated with higher externalizing problems at ages 18-19 and 20-21 years and with relatively high involvement with deviant peers. High stable religious copers were high in prosocial behavior at three ages; low stable religious copers were higher than people undergoing change in their religious coping from mid-adolescence into early adulthood. These results can expand our current thinking about religious coping and adolescent adjustment.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00703.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00703.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 21682728
AN - SCOPUS:79960050530
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 79
SP - 841
EP - 873
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 4
ER -