Effect of Resilience on Psychological Well-Being among Individuals with Substance Use Disorder: Moderating Role of Religiosity

Abstract

Substance use disorder (SUD) critically effects mental health around the world and affects operating in every aspect of a person’s life. Resilience aids in Improvement and is seen as a protective component. The resilience and well-being relationship can be affected by devotion, but very few Researches on SUD study the moderating role of religiosity, specifically in Muslim-majority countries. The modern study focused on the relationship of resilience, psychological well-being, and religiosity amid SUD individuals. The study also focused on forecasting psychological well-being by the components of resilience, as well as the role of religiosity as a moderator in the resilience and psychological well-being relationship.A cross-sectional research pattern was used to enlist fifty male heroin users (ages 18 to 35) at drug rehabilitation centers in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan, using comfort sampling. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC; α = .81), Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF; α = .65), and Index of Religiosity (α = .64) were the three record collection tools used. Data were examined by correlation, regression, and moderation analysis using SPSS version 23.Resilience had a weak positive relationship with religiosity (r = .190, p < .01) and average positive correlation with psychological wellbeing (r = .561, p < .01) and linear reversion analysis showed that resilience, had a positive linear relation with psychological wellbeing (β = .307, R² = .094, F = 4.99, p = .030). On the other hand, moderation study showed that religiosity, acted as a poor moderator of the relationship of resilience and psychological wellbeing at all stages of the moderator (minimum: Effect = .1404, p = .102; average: Effect = .0343, p = .582; maximum: Effect = −.0718, p = .435). Again, resilience acts as a separate predictor of psychological well-being among individuals who have SUD, anyway of their level of religiosity. As a primary constituent of SUD, resilience warrants absorbed attention in treatment. The puzzling absence of the moderating position of religiosity may be due to the eccentricities of the sample and should be analyzed in the context of more comprehensive studies with different populations and an adequate duration.