Psychological Health and Meaning in Life: Stress, Social Support, and Religious Coping in Latino/Latina Immigrants
Author: Dunn, Marianne G.
Date Published: 2009
This study examined the relative contributions of: gender, perceived stress, social support from family and significant other, and positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings show that greater perceived stress by Latinas/Latinos was predictive of psychological health and meaning in life, while social support from a significant other also explained variance in meaning in one's life. Negative religious coping, specifically reappraisal of God's powers, was predictive of search for meaning in one's life.