Medical illness, religion, health control and depression of institutionalized medically ill veterans in long-term care

Grosse-Holtforth, Martin; Pathak, Ajay; Koenig, Harold G.; Cohen, Harvey Jay; Pieper, Carl F.; Vanhook, Linda G.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199607)11:7<613::aid-gps357>3.0.co;2-w

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“…They found that religious beliefs, including God concept, were significantly related to both self-reported religious behaviors and religious motivation. Other research has also supported the religious motivation-coping link (Grosse-Holforth et al 1996). The assumption here is that belief in a loving, benevolent deity will produce different behaviors than the belief in a cruel, distant, or punishing God.…”

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Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations

Maynard

Gorsuch

Bjorck

2001

Scientific Study of Religion

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This study explored the important mediating role of personal religious variables and God concept in the use of religious coping in threat, loss, and challenge situations. One hundred and twenty‐nine undergraduates completed questionnaires which included a God concept adjective checklist (Schaefer and Gorsuch 1992), a stressor scenario (Bjorck and Cohen 1993), and a measure of religious coping adapted from the BAV model (Gorsuch 1988). Results suggest that personal variables such as God concept and perception of others' beliefs played important mediating roles in religious coping in stressor situations. The relationship between coping style and stressor scenario was not entirely state‐dependent, but influenced by personal variables. Strong relationships existed among God concept, the importance individuals placed on their religious and spiritual lives, and participation in religious activities.

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Section: The Role Of Reasoned Action In Copingmentioning

confidence: 79%

Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations

Maynard

Gorsuch

Bjorck

2001

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Given Filipinos commonly use faith-based coping strategies, it is not surprising they also scored highly on the spirituality domain. Religious practice has been shown to augment social support and coping skills in the face of adversity, whilst providing a buffer against stressful life events [ 43 , 44 ] and this ‘buffering’ or inter-relationship between various aspects of PMH may explain why spirituality along with other domains such as GC and ES were also higher amongst certain ethnic groups.…”

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Positive mental health among health professionals working at a psychiatric hospital

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BackgroundPositive mental health (PMH) is a combination of emotional, psychological and social well-being that is necessary for an individual to be mentally healthy. The current study aims to examine the socio-demographic differences of PMH among mental health professionals and to explore the association between job satisfaction and total PMH.MethodsDoctors, nurses and allied health staff (n = 462) completed the online survey which included the multidimensional 47-item PMH instrument as well as a single item job satisfaction question. Associations of PMH with job satisfaction were investigated via linear regression models.ResultsSignificant differences in PMH total and domain specific scores were observed across socio-demographic characteristics. Age and ethnicity were significantly correlated with PMH total scores as well as various domain scores, while gender, marital and residency status and the staff’s position were only significantly correlated with domain specific scores. Job satisfaction was also found to be a significantly associated with total PMH.ConclusionThe workplace is a key environment that affects the mental health and well-being of working adults. In order to promote and foster PMH, workplaces need to consider the importance of psychosocial well-being and the wellness of staff whilst providing an environment that supports and maintains overall health and work efficiency.

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“…There is also evidence that being religious may have a positive effect on the outcome of depression, increasing the speed of recovery ( Koenig, 1997 ; Koenig et al, 2001 ). Religious communities and faith-based organizations provide social support and religious belief systems offer meaning and hope about the future as well as providing the individual with a means of coping in the midst of suffering ( Grosse-Holforth et al, 1996 ; Koenig et al, 2001 ; Krause, 1995 ; Tix & Frazier, 1998 ). Koenig and colleagues (1992) showed, in a study examining the relationship between depression and the use of religion as a coping behaviour in hospitalized medically ill men, that the only characteristic that predicted lower rates of depression six months later was the extent to which patients relied on their religious faith to cope.…”

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Depression and the medicalization of sadness: Conceptualization and recommended help-seeking

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Littlewood

Leavey

2011

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background:Critiques of the validity of the DSM diagnostic criteria for depressive disorder argue that it fails to differentiate between abnormal sadness due to internal dysfunction or depression (sadness without an identifiable cause), and normal sadness (sadness with a clear cause).Aims and Methods:A population survey was undertaken in adult education centres in Spain aiming to explore beliefs about depression and normal sadness. Two hypothetical case vignettes portrayed individuals experiencing deep sadness, both fulfilling criteria for major depressive disorder (DSM-IV), one with a clear cause, the other without an identifiable cause. Three hundred and forty-four (344) questionnaires were obtained (95% response rate).Results:Participants statistically significantly differentiated between the sadness-with-cause vignette, seen more frequently as a normal response, while the one without a cause was seen as pathological. Help-seeking behaviour recommendations followed this distinction: a medical option was statistically significantly more common when there was no cause for sadness. Socio-cultural variation in how people understand and deal with sadness was also found.Conclusions:This study emphasizes the importance of taking into account the context in which depressive symptoms occur as it seems that the absence of an appropriate context is what makes people conceptualize them as abnormal. It also raises questions about the lack of face validity of the current diagnostic classification for depressive disorder that exclusively uses descriptive criteria.

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Medical illness, religion, health control and depression of institutionalized medically ill veterans in long-term care

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations

Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations

Positive mental health among health professionals working at a psychiatric hospital

Depression and the medicalization of sadness: Conceptualization and recommended help-seeking

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