Post-traumatic stress, post-traumatic growth and religion in Syrians

The aim of this study is to determine the religious attitudes, post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth levels of Syrians who settled in Turkey after the war and to examine the relationship between them. 301 people aged 18 and over residing in the central districts of Diyarbakır were included in the study. Quantitative research techniques were used in the study. The individuals in the sample group were first presented with a personal information form that included questions such as date of birth, place of birth, gender, marital status, educational status, economic status, length of stay in Turkey, whether they witnessed any attack, whether their relatives were harmed during the war. The Impact of Events Scale, developed by Horowitz et al., revised by Weiss and Marmar according to the DSM-IV criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, and adapted into Turkish by Çorapçıoğlu et al., was used to measure the level of Post Traumatic Stress. The Post Traumatic Growth Scale developed by Tedeschi and Calhoun was used to measure the level of Post Traumatic Growth, and the Religious Attitude Scale developed by Üzeyir OK was used to measure the level of religious attitude. The analysis of the data obtained in the research was made using the IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 package program. Frequency distribution, independent simple t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation analysis were used for data analysis. Independent simple t-test was used to understand whether the relationship between two different variables was significant, and Oneway ANOVA was used to examine the relationship between more than two variables. Apart from these, Pearson correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between two continuous variables. According to the results obtained in the study, it was determined that as the post-traumatic stress levels of the individuals increased, the post-traumatic growth levels of the individuals also increased. In addition, it was found that as the level of post-traumatic stress increased, the religious attitude levels of individuals also increased. It was also concluded that individuals with high post-traumatic growth levels also have high levels of religious attitudes.