God perfectionism as a mediator of non-organized religiosity and life satisfaction.

Madison Foster, Seattle Pacific University
Cory Duffield, Seattle Pacific University
Elizabeth Mateer, Seattle Pacific University
Joel Jin, Seattle Pacific University

This poster was also presented at Western Psychological Association, May 2021

Description

Non-organized religious activity is performed in a private context, as opposed to organizational religious activity such as attending church. The present study evaluates the effect of non-organized religiosity on life satisfaction as mediated by God perfectionism, a perception of perfectionism originating from God that can be adaptive (standards-based) or maladaptive (discrepancy-based). A parallel mediation analysis confirmed that non-organized religiosity predicted life satisfaction and indicated a significant indirect relationship between non-organized religiosity and life satisfaction, mediated by discrepancy-based God perfectionism. Non-organized religiosity also predicted lower discrepancy-based God perfectionism, which in turn predicted lower life satisfaction. Implications include a basis for future interventions to reduce negative God perfectionism and subsequently improve wellbeing.

 
May 26th, 1:00 PM

God perfectionism as a mediator of non-organized religiosity and life satisfaction.

Non-organized religious activity is performed in a private context, as opposed to organizational religious activity such as attending church. The present study evaluates the effect of non-organized religiosity on life satisfaction as mediated by God perfectionism, a perception of perfectionism originating from God that can be adaptive (standards-based) or maladaptive (discrepancy-based). A parallel mediation analysis confirmed that non-organized religiosity predicted life satisfaction and indicated a significant indirect relationship between non-organized religiosity and life satisfaction, mediated by discrepancy-based God perfectionism. Non-organized religiosity also predicted lower discrepancy-based God perfectionism, which in turn predicted lower life satisfaction. Implications include a basis for future interventions to reduce negative God perfectionism and subsequently improve wellbeing.

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