Religious Problem Solving and Coping with End Stage Renal Disease

<p>This study examined the impact of end-stage renal disease life-related couple/family stressors and strains on marital satisfaction, parental satisfaction, life satisfaction, and depression on end-stage renal disease patients and their spouses, as well as quality of life for patients. Also, it examined the moderating effects of three styles of religious problem-solving on the relationship between the ESRD couple/family stressors and strains and the outcome variables. Data included a sample of two hundred subjects and their spouses. Subjects were recruited from seven dialysis centers in southern California. Both patients and spouses were given survey questionnaires (i.e. Personal History Inventory, Religious Problem-Solving Styles Scale, Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes Seale, Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, Parental Satisfaction Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Life Satisfaction Scale) that contained the variables to be assessed. Each patient received the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form. Regression analysis outcomes showed that the collaborative religious problem-solving style, the self-directing religious problem-solving style and the deferring religious problem-solving style all moderated the relationship between ESRD life-related couple/family stressors and strains and outcome variables. Implications for research, theory, and practice were noted.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Marital and Family Therapy

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Martinez, Eva Bella

Contributors dc:contributor

• Curtis Fox
• James Dyer
• Suzanne Midori Hanna
• Graham Stacey

• Counseling
• Counseling Psychology
• Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling
• Nephrology
• Transpersonal Psychology
• Kidney Failure, Chronic; Kidney Diseases -- psychology; Religion and Psychology; Problem Solving; Adaptation, Psychological; Family Relations; Family Health.

Statement dc:rights

• This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/1497

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsrepository.llu.edu:etd-2273