Religious and spiritual struggles and coping amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

IF 1.4 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL Spirituality in Clinical Practice Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI:10.1037/scp0000272

Hansong Zhang, J. Hook, Adam S. Hodge, Steve Coomes, Cameron W. Davis, D. V. Van Tongeren, Don E. Davis, Jamie D. Aten

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect countless individuals. Traumatic events like COVID-19 can often lead to significant resource loss and negatively affect mental health. As a result, people often go through various types of struggles, including those that are religious or spiritual (e.g., existential doubt). Also, in the wake of trauma, people often try to engage in coping strategies, including drawing on religious or spiritual resources, to work through negative emotions in the face of adversity. The current qualitative study explored religious and spiritual struggles and coping strategies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (N = 172) described the types of religious and spiritual struggles they experienced, as well as the types of coping strategies they engaged in. Four themes of religious and spiritual struggles emerged: interpersonal struggles, moral struggles, doubt struggles, and ultimate meaning struggles. Four themes of coping strategies emerged: psychological coping, health-related coping, religious/spiritual (R/S) coping, and interpersonal/social coping. These themes suggested a wide range of R/S struggles and coping strategies and provided implications for the intersection between R/S and trauma as well as patterns of coping in a pandemic context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

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新冠肺炎大流行期间的宗教和精神斗争与应对：一项定性研究。

新冠肺炎疫情继续影响着无数人。新冠肺炎等创伤性事件通常会导致严重的资源损失，并对心理健康产生负面影响。因此，人们经常经历各种类型的斗争，包括宗教或精神上的斗争（例如，生存怀疑）。此外，在创伤之后，人们经常试图采取应对策略，包括利用宗教或精神资源，在逆境中克服负面情绪。目前的定性研究探讨了新冠肺炎大流行背景下的宗教和精神斗争以及应对策略。参与者（N=172）描述了他们所经历的宗教和精神斗争的类型，以及他们所从事的应对策略的类型。宗教和精神挣扎出现了四个主题：人际斗争、道德斗争、怀疑斗争和终极意义斗争。出现了四个应对策略主题：心理应对、健康相关应对、宗教/精神（R/S）应对和人际/社会应对。这些主题提出了广泛的R/S斗争和应对策略，并对R/S与创伤之间的交叉点以及在大流行背景下的应对模式提供了启示。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）

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Spirituality in Clinical Practice PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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3.10

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17.60%

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期刊介绍： Spirituality in Clinical Practice ® (SCP) is a practice-oriented journal that encompasses spiritually-oriented psychotherapy and spirituality-sensitive cultural approaches to treatment and wellness. SCP is dedicated to integrating psychospiritual and other spiritually-oriented interventions involved in psychotherapy, consultation, coaching, health, and wellness. SCP provides a forum for those engaged in clinical activities to report on — and dialogue about — their activities to inform treatment models and future research initiatives. SCP fosters original scientific development in the field by highlighting actual and potential professional applications of spirituality in clinical practice. SCP seeks to initiate research questions through clinical insight and to introduce practice approaches supported or guided by existing research. SCP welcomes application of models from the related fields of medicine, integrative medicine, biology, neuroscience, ethnology, anthropology, and natural sciences. Research articles are highly encouraged on clinical conceptualization or settings, including studies on models, processes, or treatment approaches. Treatment studies may include clinical trials at any phase; studies on feasibility, curative factors, strategy, process, efficacy, or effectiveness; and meta-analytic or mixed-methods studies.