Abstract

RIVERA-LEDESMA, Armando  and  MONTERO-LOPEZ LENA, María. Psychological Adjustment and Religious Life in Elderly People. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2014, vol.13, n.3, pp.895-906. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.UPSY13-3.apvr.

This research explores the relationship between the religious life of the people and psychological adjustment based on a sample of 193 evangelical elderly living in the community of Mexico City. The aim was to provide empirical evidence based on Latin American sample, in relation to the disputed results in Anglo samples regarding the role of religious life as adaptive resource. The results show a marginal role in the spiritual life with respect to psychological maladjustment when measured through the establishment of a satisfactory relationship with God. Furthermore, this research was able to obtain strong inverse associations when the spiritual life is assumed as vital existential satisfaction. A marginal contribution of divine spirituality seems to prevail, in contrast to the important role that vital and existential spirituality plays in the psychological maladjustment in community subjects.

Keywords : Religion; spirituality; religiosity; depression; anxiety.

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