Religiosity and attitudes towards professional mental health services: analysing religious coping as a mediator among Mexican origin Latinas/os in the southwest United States

ABSTRACT

In this study, we examined the relationship between religiosity and attitudes towards professional mental health services. We further examined whether internal religious coping and external religious coping mediated both relationships. Results indicated a significant association with religiosity and negative attitudes towards mental health services, as well as external religious coping and internal religious coping. Results also showed a nonsignificant association with both religious coping and negative attitudes towards mental health services. Finally, external religious coping mediated the relationship between religiosity and negative attitudes towards mental health services for men but not for women.

KEYWORDS:

• Religiosity
• attitudes towards mental health services
• religious coping
• Mexican
• mediation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Oswaldo Moreno http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6102-1644