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Social issues
Chair: Ulrike Popp-Baier, Netherlands
4053.1 Illness, narratives and religion, Ulrike Popp-Baier, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Psychology of religion has dealt extensively with the relation between religion, health and illness
in recent years. In my study I addressed the question how religious or spiritual orientations can
structure illness narratives and analyzed biographical-narrative interviews with people from
different religious/spiritual background who suffered from low back pain. In a first analytical
perspective I examined whether my interview partners used a medical framework or a
religious/spiritual framework for the explanatory relations associated with diagnosis, aetiology or
treatment of their back pain. Some typical patterns could be identified and ideal types with regard
to the illness experiences could be formulated.
4053.2 Relationship between childhood attachment quality and attachment to God and
relationship between childhood attachment quality and sudden religious conversion, Fatemeh
Shahabizadeh 1 , Shahriar Shahidi 1 , Ali Mazahery 2 , 1 Dep of psychology,Shahid Beheshty
University, Evin, Tehran, Iran, Iran, 2 Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshty University, Evin,
Thehran, Iran.
This study investigated role played by parental religiousness and childhood attachment quality in
Muslim subjects’ reported attachment to God. 405 university students in Tehran, Iran completed
questionnaires measuring childhood attachment quality, parental religiousness, sudden religious
change and attachment to God. Results showed if parents had been highly religious, secure
respondents reported secure attachment to God and insecure respondents reported insecure
attachment to God. If parents had been lowly religious, secure respondents reported insecure
attachment to God and insecure respondents reported secure attachment to God. Results showed
sudden religious change was positively related to insecure attachment to parents and emotional
factors.
4053.3 Comparison of matches of attachment styles in divorcing and nondivorcing couples, M.
Ali Mazaheri, S. Marzieh Hosseini, Banafsheh Hosseini, Fariba Moradizadeh, Family
Research Institute (FRI), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
This study examines pairing of attachment styles in divorcing couples. Ninety
Divorce-Applying-Couples (DACs), and ninety Living-Together-Couples (LTCs), (380 individuals)
completed Hazan and Shaver Adult Attachment Scale. While 69% of LTCs were Both-Secure and
5.6% were Both-Insecure, the figure for DACs was 11.1% Both-Secure and 42.2% Both-Insecure.
DACs had higher voidance and lower security scores. Unlike LTCs, Means of attachment
dimensions for ADCs display different figures for each sex: Wives had higher security, and
husbands had higher resistance scores. The Partner, who applied divorce, had lower resistance
scores than their spouses. Discussion explains damages, which resistant behavior contributes to
marital relationships.
4053.4 Resiliency and the family, Judith Lopez-Penaloza, Rolando Diaz-Loving, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
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