Ethnic differences in the effects of spiritual well-being on long-term psychological and behavioral outcomes within a sample of homeless women.

Douglas, Amber N.; Jimenez, Sherlyn; Lin, Hsiu‐Ju; Frisman, Linda K.

doi:10.1037/1099-9809.14.4.344

Cited by 32 publications

(21 citation statements)

References 59 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The differential findings related to religious versus existential well-being raise questions about how spirituality is experienced. In a study of ethnic differences on the effects of spiritual well-being, researchers suggested that the connection between spiritual and psychological well-being is unique for African American women who live at the intersection of race, class, and gender (Douglas, Jiminez, Lin, & Frisman, 2008). Similarly, study findings likely reflect a collective and community oriented cultural value in which women strive to find meaning in ways that are personally valuable and possibly more broadly defined than religiously prescribed (Sales, Merrill, & Fivush, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD: Spiritual Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence as Mediators

Zhang

Pittman

Lamis

et al. 2015

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Childhood maltreatment places individuals, including African American women who are undereducated and economically disadvantaged, at risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Participants were 192 African American women with a history in the prior year of both a suicide attempt and intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure. They were recruited from a public hospital that provides medical and mental health treatment to mostly low-income patients. A simple mediator model was used to examine if (1) existential well-being (sense of purpose) and/or religious well-being (relationship with God) mediated the link between childhood maltreatment and adult PTSD symptoms. Sequential multiple mediator models determined if physical and nonphysical IPV enhanced our understanding of the mediational association among the aforementioned variables. Findings suggest that existential well-being mediated the association between childhood maltreatment and adult PTSD symptoms in a simple mediator model, and existential well-being and recent nonphysical IPV served as sequential multiple mediators of this link. However, religious well-being and physical IPV were not significant mediators. Findings underscore the importance of enhancing existential well-being in the treatment of suicidal African American women with a history of childhood maltreatment and IPV.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD: Spiritual Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence as Mediators

Zhang

Pittman

Lamis

et al. 2015

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The SWBS has good test-retest reliability across four studies (0.86-0.99) (Bufford, Paloutzian, & Ellison, 1991) and is positively associated with self-concept and emotional adjustment and negatively correlated with poor health and a lack of purpose in life. The SWBS has been used extensively with non-white samples, including African-Americans (Douglas, Jimenez, Lin, & Frisman, 2008). Coefficient alpha for the current sample was 0.90 for the total scale, 0.89 for the religious well-being subscale, and 0.82 for the existential well-being subscale.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Daily hassles and suicide ideation in African-American female suicide attempters: moderating effect of spiritual well-being

Hirsch

Webb

Kaslow

2013

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Spiritual well-being encompasses existential (purpose and meaning in life) and religious (relationship with God) aspects (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982). Among African Americans, existential and religious well-being combined and independently have been linked to adjustment (Douglas, Jiminez, Lin, & Frisman, 2008; Kaslow et al, 2002; Mitchell et al, 2006; Watlington & Murphy, 2006). Existential well-being has been associated with better quality of life (Dalmida, Holstad, Dilorio, & Laderman, 2011).…”

Section: Spiritual Well-being: Culturally Relevant Protective Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood disorder, spiritual well-being, and parenting stress in African American women.

Lamis¹,

Wilson²,

Tarantino³

et al. 2014

Journal of Family Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using a culturally-informed risk-protective framework, the purpose of this study was to examine spiritual well-being (existential, religious) as a moderator (protective factor) in the relation between neighborhood disorder (risk factor) and parenting stress in among a high risk sample of low-socioeconomic status (SES), African American women (N = 144). These women, who were primary caregivers of children aged between 8 and 12 reported on disorder in their existential and religious well-being, neighborhoods, and three types of parenting stress. Women who perceived more disorder in their neighborhood had more parenting stress, and women who reported more existential and religious well-being had less parenting stress. Existential (characterized by a sense of purpose in life), but not religious (characterized by a sense of life in relationship with God) well-being, moderated the relation between neighborhood disorder and all types of parenting stress such that women with medium or high levels of existential well-being had low levels of parenting stress at low levels of neighborhood disorder, but higher levels of parenting stress at higher levels of neighborhood disorder. No moderation effects were found at low levels of existential well-being. Results are framed in a context that emphasizes their relevance to incorporating family interventions that bolster culturally relevant resilience factors, such as spirituality, pertinent to low-SES African American families.

show abstract

Ethnic differences in the effects of spiritual well-being on long-term psychological and behavioral outcomes within a sample of homeless women.

Cited by 32 publications

References 59 publications

Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD: Spiritual Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence as Mediators

Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD: Spiritual Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence as Mediators

Daily hassles and suicide ideation in African-American female suicide attempters: moderating effect of spiritual well-being

Neighborhood disorder, spiritual well-being, and parenting stress in African American women.

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About