The dissertation of Kelley, IHM, MS_________________ entitled ...
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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