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Author: Uzdavines, Alex
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1. Uzdavines, Alex
Stressful Events and Religious Identities: Investigating the Risk of Radical Accommodation
M.A. Thesis, Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2017.
Also: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:151126
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: OhioLINK
Keyword(s): Religious Influences; Stress

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At some point in their lives, everyone will experience a stressful life event. Usually, someone can cope with and make meaning from the event. However, the body of research investigating the impact of severe and/or chronic exposure to stressful life events on the brain shows that harmful effects of stress exposure accumulate. Considering the extant literature regarding religious meaning making in light of these findings and the robust literature on spiritual transformation following stressful life events, I developed three hypotheses: 1) stressful life events increase risk of (non)religious ID change, 2) earlier events continued to impact later ID changes, and 3) risk of ID change was similar across change groups. This study analyzed a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of US children born between 1980 and 1984 (N = 8984). The final analyses used multiple imputation to account for missing data and did not find evidence supporting the hypotheses.
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Uzdavines, Alex. Stressful Events and Religious Identities: Investigating the Risk of Radical Accommodation. M.A. Thesis, Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 2017..