ABSTRACT Both meaning violations (i.e., discrepancies between individuals’ global meaning system and appraised meaning of events) and religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (i.e., spiritual tensions often arising due to stressful life events) have been related to post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms. While both constructs represent strain on an individual’s meaning system, their interrelations and their independent relationships with PTS symptoms are not well understood. The aim of the current study was to explore those relations and investigate whether a sense of meaning in life (MIL) attenuates the hypothesized links. One-hundred-eighty-nine college students (78.3% female) who could identify a stressful life event that they had not yet resolved completed self-report measures of PTS symptoms, r/s struggles, meaning violations, and MIL. First, bivariate Pearson correlations indicated that all facets of r/s struggle and goal- (but not belief) violations, were significantly and positively related to PTS symptoms. Further, the association between goal and belief violations and r/s struggles differed based on the specific facet of struggle measured. Second, multiple regression analysis showed that both r/s struggles and goal violations were independently associated with PTS symptoms. Third, moderation analyses demonstrated that a sense of MIL attenuated the association between goal violations and symptomatology but only buffered the correlates of low and medium levels of r/s struggle. Promoting people’s general sense of MIL thus seems to have the potential to buffer the negative sequelae of both goal violations and certain levels of r/s struggle.

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面对压力生活事件时的意义侵犯、宗教/精神斗争和生活意义

摘要 意义侵犯（即个人的整体意义系统与事件的评价意义之间的差异）和宗教/精神（r/s）斗争（即，经常因压力生活事件而引起的精神紧张）都与创伤后应激障碍有关。压力 (PTS) 症状。虽然这两种结构都代表了个体意义系统的压力，但它们的相互关系以及它们与 PTS 症状的独立关系尚不清楚。当前研究的目的是探索这些关系并调查生命意义感 (MIL) 是否会削弱假设的联系。189 名大学生（78.3% 是女性）能够识别出他们尚未解决的压力性生活事件，他们完成了对 PTS 症状、r/s 挣扎、意义侵犯和 MIL 的自我报告测量。第一的，双变量 Pearson 相关性表明，r/s 斗争和目标（但不是信念）违反的所有方面都与 PTS 症状显着正相关。此外，目标和信念违反与 r/s 斗争之间的关联因所衡量的斗争的具体方面而异。其次，多元回归分析表明，r/s 斗争和目标违反均与 PTS 症状独立相关。第三，适度分析表明，MIL 感减弱了目标违规与症状之间的关联，但仅缓冲了低和中水平 r/s 斗争的相关性。因此，促进人们对 MIL 的普遍认识似乎有可能缓冲违反目标和某些程度的 r/s 斗争的负面后遗症。