Do Religious/Spiritual Resources Moderate the Association Between Suffering and Religious/Spiritual Struggles? A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of US Adults with Chronic Illness

In this prospective study of US adults with chronic illness (n = 302), we examined the associations of subjective suffering and religious/spiritual (R/S) resources (i.e., religious coping, religious commitment, and spiritual fortitude) with the subsequent experience of R/S struggles. Using a rigorou...

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Auteurs: Kent, Blake Victor (Auteur) ; Cowden, Richard G. (Auteur) ; Counted, Victor 1987- (Auteur) ; Davis, Edward B. (Auteur) ; Rueger, Sandra Y. (Auteur) ; Worthington, Everett L. 1946- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
Dans: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 61, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 642-662
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B USA / Malade chronique / Souffrance / Religiosité / Ressources / Doute religieux (motif)
RelBib Classification:AE Psychologie de la religion
AG Vie religieuse
KBQ Amérique du Nord
Sujets non-standardisés:B Religious Coping
B religious and spiritual struggles
B spiritual fortitude
B Suffering
B Religious Commitment
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Résumé:In this prospective study of US adults with chronic illness (n = 302), we examined the associations of subjective suffering and religious/spiritual (R/S) resources (i.e., religious coping, religious commitment, and spiritual fortitude) with the subsequent experience of R/S struggles. Using a rigorous analytic approach that involved adjusting for numerous covariates and prior values of all exposures and the outcome assessed in Wave 1, we found that suffering assessed in Wave 2 was associated with an increase in subsequent R/S struggles assessed 3 months later (Wave 3). There was modest evidence suggesting that religious commitment and spiritual fortitude (but not religious coping) moderated the association between suffering and subsequent R/S struggles, such that there was a stronger positive association between suffering and R/S struggles at higher levels of each moderator. This study provides preliminary evidence that R/S struggles may be commonly experienced by those with high religious engagement in the face of suffering.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12808