Child, Youth, and Family Studies, Department of
Date of this Version
May 2005
Abstract
This study seeks to examine the relationships between young adults’ understandings of past and current interpersonal relationships and their conceptualizations of a personal relationship with a higher spiritual power.
Findings: •As hypothesized, students with permissive parents reported lower levels of Awareness and Realistic Acceptance in relation to God. •Contrary to prediction, students with permissive parents did not have higher scores on the Disappointment subscale of the SAI. •As hypothesized, students with authoritarian parents had higher scores of Instability or Disappointment in God on the SAI. •Contrary to prediction, students with authoritative parents did not have higher scores for Awareness, Realistic Acceptance, or Disappointment in God on the SAI. •Contrary to prediction, students with more nurturing parents did not have higher scores for Awareness and Disappointment in God on the SAI. •Contrary to prediction, males and females did not differ in their concepts of God. •As hypothesized, femininity scores were positively correlated with the Awareness and Impression Management subscales of the SAI.. Masculinity scores on the BSRI were negatively correlated with the Awareness, Instability, and Impression Management subscales of the SAI.
Comments
Poster presented at UNL Student Research Conference sponsored by UCARE Project.