Religiousness,social support and subjective well‐being: An exploratory study among adolescents in an Asian atheist country |
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| Authors: | Chengting Ju Baoshan Zhang Xuqun You Valeria Alterman Yongkang Li |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China;2. Department of Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;3. School of Public Management, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kumming, China |
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| Abstract: | Few studies have focused on the relationships among religiousness, social support and subjective well‐being in Chinese adolescent populations. This study tries to fill this gap. Using cluster sampling, we selected two groups: Group A, which included 738 Tibetan adolescents with a formal religious affiliation and represented adolescents from a religious culture, and Group B, which included 720 Han adolescents without a religious affiliation and represented adolescents from an irreligious culture. Structural equation modelling showed that only in Group A did social support mediate (partially) the relationship between religious experience and subjective well‐being; furthermore, the results of a hierarchical regression analysis showed that only in Group A did social support moderate the relationship between religious ideology and subjective well‐being. Possible explanations for the discrepancies between the findings obtained in this study and those obtained in previous studies are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Religiousness Social support Subjective well‐being Adolescents Religious culture |
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