Religious Well-Being, Existential Well-Being, Positive Religious Coping and Family Protective Factors (Family Adaptation): A Causal Model

The present study tested a conceptual model of the relationships among religious well-being, existential well-being, positive religious coping, and family protective factors. a sample of three hundred and eighty nine voluntary and unpaid muslim participants (230 females, 159 males), aged between 21 and 47 years old (31.18 ± 4.28 years), were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling in isfahan, iran. all participants were asked to complete the spiritual well-being scale (swbs; paloutzian & ellison, 1982), the brief religious coping scale (rcope; pargament, smith, koenig, & perez, 1998), and the inventory of family protective factors (ifpf; gardner, huber, steiner, vasquez & savage, 2008). using structural equation modeling, the results supported the mediating effects for existential well-being and positive religious coping among religious well-being and family protective factors. the analytic model explained 40% of the distribution of family protective factors. these findings suggest that the positive impact of religious well-being is correlated with family protective factors.