The Role of Religious Comfort and Religious Struggles in the Process of Shaping Empathy and Meaning in Life of Healthy and Sick Polish Women with COVID 19

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  • Tytuł: The Role of Religious Comfort and Religious Struggles in the Process of Shaping Empathy and Meaning in Life of Healthy and Sick Polish Women with COVID 19
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  • Nazwa czasopisma: Forum Psychologicum
  • Rok: 2026
  • Tom: 1
  • Numer: 1
  • ISSN: 3072-5135
  • e-ISSN: 3072-5151
  • Adres www:: https://czasopisma.ignatianum.edu.pl/fps/article/view/2026.0101.03
  • Strony od-do: 47-74
  • Abstrakt: Objective of the study: The outbreak of the COVID‑19 pandemic has brought many new challenges related to individual and social life. The study aimed to show the relationship between religious comfort and religious struggles with empathy and meaning in life in healthy women and those who had COVID‑19. In addition, it shows the potential of religiosity in shaping aspects of mental health such as empathy and meaning in life. Method: The study involved 103 women. 54 women had and were sick with COVID‑19 and 49 did not have COVID‑19. All women were born in Poland. These tools were used: the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS), the Empathic Sensitivity Scale (SWE), and the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ). Results: Women, both those who had COVID‑19 and those who did not, were characterized by a high level of religious comfort and a sense of the presence of meaning in life, and a search for meaning. Both groups of women show no significant relationship between religious comfort and searching for meaning in life, but reveal a strong relationship between the presence of meaning in life and the absence of such searching. In the group of healthy women, empathetic concern played a key role in mediation, while in the group of sick people, perspective‑taking played a key role. Conclusions: The knowledge gained from this research can help clinical psychologists, hospice workers, and hospice volunteers better understand patients’ needs after serious illness. It can also provide clergy with valuable knowledge for their pastoral work. Furthermore, this work can generate hypotheses useful for further research.
  • Dyscyplina: psychologia
  • 002 a The Role of Religious Comfort and Religious Struggles in the Process of Shaping Empathy and Meaning in Life of Healthy and Sick Polish Women with COVID 19
  • 003 b 0000-0002-2342-0345
  • 003 a Magdalena Nuckowska (Autor)
  • 003 a STANISŁAW GŁAZ (Autor)
  • 004 a Oryginalny artykuł naukowy
  • 006 a Forum Psychologicum
  • 008 a 2026
  • 009 a 1
  • 010 a 1
  • 011 a 3072-5135
  • 012 a 3072-5151
  • 014 a https://czasopisma.ignatianum.edu.pl/fps/article/view/2026.0101.03
  • 015 a 47-74
  • 020 a Objective of the study: The outbreak of the COVID‑19 pandemic has brought many new challenges related to individual and social life. The study aimed to show the relationship between religious comfort and religious struggles with empathy and meaning in life in healthy women and those who had COVID‑19. In addition, it shows the potential of religiosity in shaping aspects of mental health such as empathy and meaning in life. Method: The study involved 103 women. 54 women had and were sick with COVID‑19 and 49 did not have COVID‑19. All women were born in Poland. These tools were used: the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS), the Empathic Sensitivity Scale (SWE), and the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ). Results: Women, both those who had COVID‑19 and those who did not, were characterized by a high level of religious comfort and a sense of the presence of meaning in life, and a search for meaning. Both groups of women show no significant relationship between religious comfort and searching for meaning in life, but reveal a strong relationship between the presence of meaning in life and the absence of such searching. In the group of healthy women, empathetic concern played a key role in mediation, while in the group of sick people, perspective‑taking played a key role. Conclusions: The knowledge gained from this research can help clinical psychologists, hospice workers, and hospice volunteers better understand patients’ needs after serious illness. It can also provide clergy with valuable knowledge for their pastoral work. Furthermore, this work can generate hypotheses useful for further research.
  • 022 a covid-19
  • 022 a empathy
  • 022 a Meaning in life
  • 022 a religious comfort
  • 022 a religious struggles
  • 022 a women
  • 966 a psychologia
  • 985 a Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie (1000000)
  • 985 b Wydział Psychologii [1PSY]

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Repozytorium Akademii Ignatianum w Krakowie, które jest częścią Portalu Pracowniczego zostało zrealizowane w ramach projektu „Program wzmocnienia potencjału dydaktycznego Uczelni na rzecz rozwoju regionalnego” POWR.03.05.00-00-ZR10/18 współfinansowanego ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego.