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Religious and Spiritual Coping with Parental Psychospiritual and Psychological Maltreatment of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals

Chinn, Jay Aaron
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1683148775865835

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
This short-term longitudinal project investigated whether transgender and gender diverse (TGD) young adults who currently report greater parental psychological and psychospiritual (i.e., religious/spiritual one-upmanship) maltreatment by their parents experienced greater future psychological and relational distress, and whether greater positive and negative religious and spiritual coping (RS coping) with both types of parental verbal maltreatment buffers or exacerbates, respectively, TGD individuals’ psychological adjustment over time. This study included 76 TGD individuals (34.5% transgender female, 25.0% nonbinary, 21.1% genderfluid, 10.5% transgender male, 9.2% other) who completed questionnaires at two time points four months apart. Experiencing greater psychological maltreatment at Time 1 from a parent or parents significantly predicted more depressive symptoms (β=.50, p<.001), more anxiety symptoms (β=.31, p<.05), less relationship satisfaction with parents (β=-.52, p<.001), and less needs satisfaction from parents (β=-.41, p<.05) at Time 2 controlling for Time 1 levels on outcomes. Additionally, greater positive RS coping at Time 1 predicted fewer anxiety symptoms (β=-.38, p<.05) and greater relationship satisfaction with at least one parent (β=.44, p<.05) at Time 2, whereas greater negative RS coping longitudinally predicted greater depressive symptoms (β=.47, p<.001). Using quantitative data, this study demonstrates that TGD individuals can continue to experience parental psychological maltreatment even after becoming a legal adult, such experiences can lead to poorer psychosocial adjustment, and highlights the the importance of examining specific RS factors as differential predictors of mental health outcomes for TGD individuals.
Annette Mahoney, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Meagan Docherty, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Joshua Grubbs, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lauren Maziarz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
101 p.
Clinical Psychology
RS Coping; Transgender and Gender Diverse; Transgender; Parental Psychospiritual Maltreatment; Parental Psychological Maltreatment;

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  • Chinn, J. A. (2023). Religious and Spiritual Coping with Parental Psychospiritual and Psychological Maltreatment of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1683148775865835

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chinn, Jay. Religious and Spiritual Coping with Parental Psychospiritual and Psychological Maltreatment of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals. 2023. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1683148775865835.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chinn, Jay. "Religious and Spiritual Coping with Parental Psychospiritual and Psychological Maltreatment of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1683148775865835

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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