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Pollard, Sara E. Mutual Influences in Romantic Attachment, Religious Coping, and
Marital Adjustment. Doctor of Philosophy (Counseling Psychology), August 2013, 117 pp., 4
tables, 3 figures, references, 221 titles.
This study examined associations among romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance,
positive and negative religious coping, and marital adjustment in a community sample of 81
heterosexual couples. Both spouses completed the Experiences in Close Relationships
Scale (ECR), a brief measure of religious coping (Brief RCOPE), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale
(DAS), and a demographic questionnaire as part of a larger study. Multilevel modeling (MLM)
for the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was used. Attachment avoidance was
inversely related to positive religious coping. In contrast, attachment anxiety was directly
related to negative religious coping. Positive religious coping buffered the relationship
between attachment avoidance and marital adjustment. In contrast, attachment anxiety was
detrimental to marital adjustment regardless of positive religious coping, and positive religious
coping was related to higher marital adjustment only in the context of low attachment anxiety.
Surprisingly, the spouse's attachment anxiety was inversely related to the respondent's marital
adjustment only when the respondent reported low levels of negative religious coping, whereas
in the context of high negative religious coping, the partner's attachment anxiety was related to
higher marital adjustment. Results support using attachment theory to conceptualize religious
coping and the consideration of both attachment and religious coping constructs in counseling.
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Pollard, Sara E. Mutual Influences in Romantic Attachment, Religious Coping, and Marital Adjustment, dissertation, August 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283784/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .