Smrt u obitelji i religioznost
Death in the Family and Religiosity

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the author analyses the connection between religiosity and the loss of a close family member. Substantial research has shown that people exposed to traumatic events, such as the death of a close family member, turn to religion as a way of coping. In case this assumption is confirmed, the correlation between religiosity and the death of close family members should be positive. The research was conducted by means of a face-to-face interview on a probabilistic sample of 1525 adult citizens of Croatia. Statistical analysis has shown that the initial hypothesis is in part correct, i.e. that the correlation between religiosity and the experience of the death of a child is low but positive. The loss of other close family members, a partner or a parent, is in no correlation with religiosity. We assumed that religiosity had a mediational role in coping with the death of a child, i.e. that it contributed to the satisfactory result of coping. The mediational analysis that was conducted could not refute this hypothesis. It therefore represents a persuasive explanation of the established correlations.

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