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Examining the links between spiritual struggles and symptoms of psychopathology in a national sample
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The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual struggles and various types of psychopathology symptoms in individuals who had and had not suffered from a recent illness. Participants completed self-report measures of religious variables and symptoms of psychopathology. Spiritual struggles were assessed by a measure of negative religious coping. As predicted, negative religious coping was significantly linked to various forms of psychopathology, including anxiety, phobic anxiety, depression, paranoid ideation, obsessive-compulsiveness, and somatization, after controlling for demographic and religious variables. In addition, the relationship between negative religious coping and anxiety and phobic anxiety was stronger for individuals who had experienced a recent illness. These results have implications for assessments and interventions targeting spiritual struggles, especially in medical settings.
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- Authors
- McConnell, K. M., Pargament, K. I., Ellison, C. G., & Flannelly, K. J.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1469-1484
- ISSN
- 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-4679
- OpenAlex
- W1986594546
- Cited by
- 321
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 8.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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