Figure 1.

Assessed relationship between religiosity dimensionsa and mastery, stressors, and other coping resources as well as psychological distress, across black and white American subsamples (Americans’ Changing Lives waves 1 and 2: 1986 and 1989)

^a Effects of individual religiosity dimensions are estimated in separate iterations (vs. simultaneously in a single model).

^b Thinner arrows signify single causal paths that are estimated.

^c Thicker arrows represent the multiple causal paths emitting from/to individual variables within the clusters enclosed in dotted squares (see Table 2).