Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A Two-year Longitudinal Study

By K. Pargament, H. Koenig, N. Tarakeshwar, June Hahn. Journal of Health Psychology, 2004

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The Correlates of Spiritual Struggle during the College Years (2008, background): “Are students lacking resources in college and as a result becoming chronically “stuck” in the midst of their struggle? Pargament, Koenig, Tarakeshwar, and Hahn (2004) have suggested that chronic struggling is inexorably linked to declines in physical and mental health.”
The influence of religious coping on the mental health of disabled Iranian war veterans (2009, result): “It also supports previous studies that indicated that religious coping was predictive of mental health (e.g., Musick & Strulowitz, 1989; Pargament et al., 2004).”
Development, refinement, and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward God Scale (ATGS-9). (2010, result): “This finding is consistent with prior research suggesting that spiritual struggles, including anger with God, are linked with mental and sometimes physical struggles as well (e.g., Exline et al., 1999, 2000, 2009; Fitchett et al.,1999; Pargament et al., 2001, 2004).”
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: The Report of the Consensus Conference (2009, neutral): “Spiritual and religious beliefs can also create distress and increase the burdens of illness.(19,20) Studies have raised critical issues including the need for a commonly accepted definition of spirituality, the appropriate application of spiritual care in palliative care settings, clarification abo”
Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial (2016, background): “, 2002) assessed on how the participant felt “on average”; Spiritual-Religious Outcome Scale, a threeitem measure used to assess spiritual and religious changes during illness (Pargament et al., 2004); and Faith Maturity Scale, a 12-item scale assessing the degree to which a person’s priorities and ”
The role of spirituality in coping: Examining the relationships between spiritual dimensions and coping styles (2008, background): “Research has shown that spirituality may function as a buffer against a wide variety of stressful events encountered by individuals (Pargament, 1997; Pargament et al., 2004; Tuck, Alleyne, & Thinganjana, 2006).”
Predictors of spiritual struggles: an exploratory study (2013, background): “For example, in a two-year longitudinal study of medically ill hospitalised elderly patients, participants who experienced chronic spiritual struggles became more depressed and experienced declines in quality of life, independence in daily activities, and spiritual outcomes (Pargament, Koenig, Tarak”
Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion? (2010, background): “... in an online national sample of adults (McConnell et al. 2006); (d) greater depression, higher perceived burden, and lower sense of meaning and purpose among samples of Alzheimers and hospice caregivers (Mickley et al. 1998; Shah et al. 2001); (e) slower rates of recovery among medical rehabilit”
Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Research and Clinical Implications (2012, background): “These include people dealing with general medical illness [28, 29], chronic pain [30], kidney disease [31], diabetes [32, 33], pulmonary disease [34], cancer [35, 36], blood disorders [37], heart/cardiovascular diseases [38, 39], dental [40] or vision [41] problems, neurological disorders [42],…”
Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: Reaching National and International Consensus (2014, neutral): “Conversely, negative spiritual and religious beliefs can cause distress and increase the burdens of illness.(23,24) Given that global health outcomes are influenced by health care access, and considering increases in patient dissatisfaction and clinician burnout, addressing spirituality is both rele”