The complex role of the community in the determination of well‐being and hope among divorced Muslim women.

Based on social capital theory, in the current study, we examined the contribution of background variables (education and living with/without parents), a personal resource (religiosity), and two communal resources (a sense of community, and both positive and negative societal conditional regard) to the well‐being and hope of divorced women from the Muslim community in Israel. The study included 125 women between the ages of 20 and 60 (M = 36, SD = 9.10). A path analysis model indicated a sense of community as a protective factor that directly contributed to well‐being and hope and also mediated positively between education and religiosity and between well‐being and hope. However, societal conditional negative regard (SCNR) made a negative contribution to well‐being and hope, both directly and indirectly via the sense of community. In the discussion, we highlight the conflict experienced by Muslim divorced women: between remaining part of the Muslim community and undergoing SCNR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]