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CHAPTER III<br />

Results<br />

Grief in Women Religious 31<br />

Descriptive Statistics for all variables <strong>of</strong> interest are presented in Table 3. In<br />

order to examine grief over time, a residualized grief score was calculated, representing<br />

grief at time 2 after controlling for grief at time 1.<br />

Hypothesis 1 was that there is a relation between social support and grief such<br />

that the social support <strong>of</strong> women religious is negatively related to grief symptoms over<br />

time. This was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Social support was not<br />

related to grief symptoms over time. Time 1 social support was not significantly related<br />

to grief symptoms at time 2 regardless <strong>of</strong> whether grief at time 1 was controlled (see<br />

Table 4).<br />

Hypothesis 2 was that there is a relation between spirituality and grief such that<br />

the spirituality <strong>of</strong> women religious is negatively related to grief symptoms over time (see<br />

Table 4). This was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Time 1 spirituality<br />

was not related to grief symptoms at time 2 regardless <strong>of</strong> whether grief at time 1 was<br />

controlled.<br />

Hypothesis 3 was that there is a significant interaction between women religious<br />

lifestyles and personality factors in relation to grief symptoms, such that extraversion is<br />

negatively related to grief symptoms over time in active women religious and positively<br />

related to grief symptoms in contemplative women religious over time. This was tested<br />

using multiple regression (see Table 5). <strong>The</strong> overall effect <strong>of</strong> lifestyle was significant.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mean scores for active and contemplative groups on time 2 grief and time 2

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