Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion?

By C. Ellison, Jinwoo Lee. 2010

310 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. K. Pargament
2. Joshua B. Grubbs
3. Julie J. Exline
4. A. Yali
5. C. Ellison
6. K. Flannelly
7. Hisham Abu-Raiya

In Health

1. C. Ellison
2. K. Pargament
3. Julie J. Exline
4. K. Flannelly
5. A. Yali
6. Joshua B. Grubbs
7. Rebecca A. Steckler
8. Qijuan Fang

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Ellison
2. K. Pargament
3. Julie J. Exline
4. K. Flannelly
5. Joshua B. Grubbs
6. A. Yali
7. Rebecca A. Steckler
8. Qijuan Fang

Citations in the corpus

• Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Religious Identity (2013, background): “…have focused on age variations in levels and effects of spiritual struggle (Ellison & Lee, 2010; Galek et al., 2007; Krause et al., 1999), and at least one study has reported that the link between divine struggles and psychological distress was moderated by marital status (Ellison & Lee, 2010).”
• The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale: Development and initial validation (2014, background): “Many studies have documented links between r/s struggles and emotional distress (e.g., Bryant & Astin, 2008; Ellison & Lee, 2010), including depressive symptoms (e.g., Ano & Vasconcelles, 2005), anxiety and signs of other emotional disorders (e.g., McConnell et al., 2006), and suicidal ideation…”