Emerging Finnish Adults Coping with Cancer: Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Meanings of the Experience

The article presents empirical findings on religious, spiritual, and secular coping among emerging Finnish adults with cancer and seeks an understanding of the different meanings they constructed of their experience with cancer. Autobiographical interviews and life tree drawings of 16 emerging adult...

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Main Author: Saarelainen, Suvi-Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2017]
In: Pastoral psychology
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-268
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B Lived Religion
B Religious Coping
B Spirituality
B emerging adulthood
B Meaning-making
B Religion
B Discussion
B Empirical Research
B Cancer
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