@article{ref1,
title="Maternal religiosity, family resources and stressors, and parent-child attachment security in Northern Ireland",
journal="Social Development",
year="2013",
author="Goeke-Morey, Marcie C. and Cairns, Ed and Merrilees, Christine E. and Schermerhorn, Alice C. and Shirlow, Peter and Cummings, E. Mark",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="19-37",
abstract="This study explores the associations between mothers' religiosity, and families' and children's functioning in a stratified random sample of 695 Catholic and Protestant mother-child dyads in socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a region which has experienced centuries of sectarian conflict between Protestant Unionists and Catholics Nationalists. <br><br>FINDINGS based on mother and child surveys indicated that even in this context of historical political violence associated with religious affiliation, mothers' religiosity played a consistently positive role, including associations with multiple indicators of better family functioning (i.e., more cohesion and behavioral control and less conflict, psychological distress, and adjustment problems) and greater parent-child attachment security. Mothers' religiosity also moderated the association between parent-child attachment security and family resources and family stressors, enhancing positive effects of cohesion and mother behavioral control on mother-child attachment security, and providing protection against risks associated with mothers' psychological distress. <br><br>FINDINGS are discussed in terms of implications for understanding the role of religiosity in serving as a protective or risk factor for children and families.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0961-205X",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9507.2012.00659.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9507.2012.00659.x"
}