Closeness to God Among Those Doing God’s Work: A Spiritual Well-Being Measure for Clergy

Proeschold‐Bell, Rae Jean; Yang, Chongming; Toth, Matthew; Rivers, Monica Corbitt; Carder, Kenneth

doi:10.1007/s10943-013-9682-5

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“…We used the Clergy Spiritual Well‐Being Scale to assess two kinds of spiritual well‐being: experiencing the presence of God in daily life (Cronbach's α = .91), and experiencing the presence of God in ministry (Cronbach's α was also = .91) (Proeschold‐Bell, Yang et al. ). We measured three church constructs.…”

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The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive: Predictors of Positive Versus Negative Mental Health Among Clergy

Proeschold‐Bell

Eisenberg

Adams

et al. 2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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Clergy fulfill vital societal functions as meaning makers and community builders. Partly because of their important roles, clergy frequently encounter stressful situations. Further, studies suggest that clergy experience high rates of depression. Despite this, few studies have examined protective factors for clergy that may increase their positive mental health. We invited all United Methodist clergy in North Carolina to participate in a survey. Of church‐serving clergy, 85 percent responded (n = 1,476). Hierarchical multiple regression was used to assess the predictors of three positive and four negative mental health outcomes. The three sets of predictors were: demographics, which explained 2–10 percent of the variances; variables typically related to mental health (social support, social isolation, and financial stress), which explained 14–41 percent of the variances; and clergy‐specific variables, which explained 14–20 percent of the variances, indicating the importance of measuring occupation‐specific variables. Some variables (e.g., congregation demands) significantly related to both positive and negative mental health, whereas others (e.g., positive congregations, congregation support) significantly related primarily to positive mental health. In addition to their intervention implications, these findings support separate consideration for negative versus positive mental health.

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The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive: Predictors of Positive Versus Negative Mental Health Among Clergy

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“…The Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI), introduced by Francis, Kaldor, Robbins, and Castle (2005), differs in two important ways from the longer-established Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) as proposed by Maslach and Jackson (1996). First, although the MBI has been and continues to be used in a number of studies among clergy, including for example work reported by Evers and Tomic (2003), Golden, Piedmont, Ciarrocchi, and Rodgerson (2004), Raj and Dean (2005), Miner (2007aMiner ( , 2007b and Doolittle (2007Doolittle ( , 2010, Chandler (2009), Joseph, Corveleyn, Luyten, and de Witte (2010), Buys and Rothmann (2010), Parker and Martin (2011), Joseph, Luyten, Corveleyn, and de Witte (2011), Rossetti (2011), Küçüksüleymanoğlu (2013), Rossetti and Rhoades (2013), Herrera, Pedrosa, Galindo, Suárex-Álvarez, Villardón, and García-Cueto (2014), Proeschold-Bell, Yang, Toth, Rivers, and Carder (2014), Crea and Francis (2015), Adams, Hough, Proeschold-Bell, Yao, and Kolkin (2016), Büssing, Baumann, Jacobs, and Frick (2017), and Vicente-Galindo, López-Herrera, Pedrosa, Suárez-Álvarez, Galindo-Villardón, and García-Cueto (2017), this instrument was not designed specifically for use among clergy. In an initial critique of the application of the MBI among clergy, Rutledge and Francis (2004) pointed to discrepancies between some of the items and the ways in which clergy may speak of their professional activity.…”

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Testing the Francis Burnout Inventory among Anglican clergy in England

Francis

Laycock

Ratter³

2019

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…Despite the small number of items, it can be claimed that the above dimension can cover the concepts and content contained in the items of the care burden inventory. ‘Trust in God’ dimension (3 items) represents the inner spirituality of individuals that not only affects their beliefs and thoughts, but also help them to cope with the crisis 27,28.…”

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Development and validation of ‘caring ability of family caregivers of patients with cancer scale (CAFCPCS)’

Nemati

Rassouli

Ilkhani

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Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Development and validation of 'caring ability of family caregivers of patients with cancer scale (CAFCPCS)' Abstract Aim: Family caregivers have limited abilities that make them vulnerable to the care needs of patients. Therefore, it seems necessary to evaluate their caring ability. The aim of this study was to design an instrument for assessing the caring ability of family caregivers of cancer patients. Methods: This was a sequential exploratory mixed-method study, carried out in two qualitative and quantitative phases. The concept of caring ability and its dimensions were explained using conventional content analysis in the qualitative phase. The research participants included 41 family caregivers of cancer patients and professional caregivers who were selected using purposeful sampling method until reaching data saturation. The scale items were designed using the results of the qualitative phase of the study, as well as the review of relevant literature. In the quantitative phase, the scale was validated using content and face validity, construct validity, as well as internal consistency and stability. Results: The primary item pool was prepared in 108 items. Content validity was determined using CVR with a cutoff point (0.62), CVI with a cutoff point (0.8) and kappa coefficient (j) (>0.75). The validity of 72 items was confirmed. Then, the overlapping items were merged and eventually the 45-item scale entered the face validity stage and five items with an impact factor < 1.5 were omitted. Results of KMO = 0.904 and Bartlett = 6184.012 (p < 0.001) justified the need for factor analysis. Scree plot indicates five factors with eigenvalues above 1 and 67.7% of the total variance, including 'Effective role play, Fatigue and Surrender, Trust, Uncertainty, and Caring ignorance'. Reliability of the 31-item instrument indicated a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.93 and ICC of 0.94. Conclusions: Caring abilities scale (CAI) of family caregivers of patients with cancer is a valid and reliable instrument that can assess caregivers' caring ability.

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Closeness to God Among Those Doing God’s Work: A Spiritual Well-Being Measure for Clergy

Cited by 42 publications

References 57 publications

The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive: Predictors of Positive Versus Negative Mental Health Among Clergy

The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive: Predictors of Positive Versus Negative Mental Health Among Clergy

Testing the Francis Burnout Inventory among Anglican clergy in England

Development and validation of ‘caring ability of family caregivers of patients with cancer scale (CAFCPCS)’

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