Does negative religious coping accompany, precede, or follow depression among Orthodox Jews?
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BACKGROUND Cross sectional research suggests that negative religious coping (e.g., anger at God and religious disengagement) strongly correlates with depression and anxiety. However, causality is difficult to establish as negative coping can accompany, cause, or result from distress. Among Orthodox Jews, some studies have found correlations between negative religious coping and anxiety and depression, while others found that high levels of negative coping related with decreased distress. We therefore examined longitudinal relationships between negative coping and depressive symptoms among Orthodox Jews. METHODS Participants (80 Orthodox Jews) completed the Jewish Religious Coping Scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies' Depression Scale at two times. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we compared four models describing possible causal patterns. RESULTS Negative religious coping and depressive symptoms were linearly related. Furthermore, a model including negative coping as a predictor of future depression fit the data best and did not significantly differ from a saturated model. LIMITATIONS This research was limited by reliance on self-report measures, an internet sample, and examination of only negative religious coping. CONCLUSIONS Consistent with a "primary spiritual struggles" conceptualization, negative religious coping appears to precede and perhaps cause future depression among Orthodox Jews. Clinical interventions should target spiritual struggles, and more research integrating this construct into theory and practice is warranted.
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Screening for Spiritual Struggle in an Adolescent Transgender Clinic: Feasibility and Acceptability
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“In the literature, the term NRC is often interchangeable with the term religious and spiritual struggle (Pirutinsky et al., 2011), and many authors have described negative associations between R/S struggles and human physical and mental health (Abu-Raiya et al., 2016; Exline et al., 2000; McConnell…”
BackgroundThe invisible battle: A descriptive study of religious/spiritual struggles in Veterans
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Religious Coping Across a Spectrum of Religious Involvement Among Jews
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“Several studies have shown that greater religious commitment (or beliefs) is associated with lower rates of suicide (16, 17), with some (albeit lesser) evidence of a similar association with suicidal ideation and suicidal act (18, 19); however, these findings have not been consistently observed (20–22).”
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“For instance, a recent longitudinal study among the Ultra-Orthodox population reported an association between negative religious and spiritual coping and increased symptoms of depression (Pirutinsky et al., 2011).”
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Religious Premarital Education and Marital Quality Within the Orthodox Jewish Community
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- Authors
- Pirutinsky, S., Rosmarin, D. H., Pargament, K. I., & Midlarsky, E.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 132
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 401-405
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2068726258
- Semantic Scholar
- 17641fc79f8c8f0c44182d40b7f3c3617b0d4d37
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 10.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- nrs.harvard.edu
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD050959)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- negative religious coping, depression, Orthodox Jews, longitudinal associations
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Mental Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Ethnicity, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Jews, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Religion, Religion and Psychology, Spirituality, Young Adult
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