Weathering the Storm: The Shelter of Faith for Black American Christian Families

Millett, Mallory A.; Cook, Lauren E.; Skipper, Antonius; Chaney, Cassandra; Marks, Loren D.; Dollahite, David C.

doi:10.1080/01494929.2018.1469572

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“…Researchers have found that African Americans utilize religion as a coping mechanism in response to health (Bowie et al, 2017; Koenig et al, 2012), discrimination (Hayward & Krause, 2015), and even relational concerns (Marks et al, 2012; Millett et al, 2018; Skipper et al, 2018). For instance, in an 8-year longitudinal study of over 36,000 women identifying as Black or African American, VanderWeele et al (2017) found that, when controlling for age, the utilization of religious coping in response to stressful situations was associated with a lowered prevalence of mortality.…”

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Sanctification of couple relationships and communal coping in married and cohabiting African American couples.

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Skipper²,

Rose

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Journal of Family Psychology

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Throughout history, African Americans have endured much, and their experiences with discrimination and racism continue today. Despite ongoing challenges, African Americans have also shown their resilience. Religion and spirituality are two of the largest resources of resilience that African Americans employ. However, little is known about the role of religion and spirituality within African American couple relationships. Using dyadic data from 292 married and 233 cohabiting African American couples, we examined the impact of sanctification of the couple relationship on communal coping within the Actor Partner Interdependence Model. Significant actor effects were found between relational sanctification and communal coping for both married and cohabiting men and women. There was a significant partner effect between married men's relational sanctification and married women's communal coping. However, no other significant partner effects were found.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Sanctification of couple relationships and communal coping in married and cohabiting African American couples.

Russell

Skipper²,

Rose

et al. 2021

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…(Alghafli et al, ; Dollahite, Marks, & Dalton, ; Dollahite, Marks, & Young, ; Marks, Hopkins, Nesteruk, Chaney, & Baumgartner, ; Marks et al, in press, a; Marks et al, in press, b; Millet et al, ). Participants reported that their religious beliefs, practices, and communities helped them endure prosaic struggles and profound challenges.…”

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“…It is [family]” (p. 287). For a recent treatment, see Marks, Moore, Skipper, and Rose (in press) or Millet et al ().…”

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Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

Dollahite

Marks

Wurm

2019

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Generative devotion is a middle‐range theory grounded in analyses of interviews with religious and nonreligious families that illuminates ways religion can facilitate strong family relations within and across generations. Generative devotion is a way of approaching religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and communities that attends to the long‐term well‐being of family members, is essentially other‐oriented, responds to abiding needs of persons, respects the agency of others, and is consciously relational in nature. This article discusses various influences that have informed the development of the theoretical framework of generative devotion; the major terms of the framework and how generative devotion differs from other forms of religious devotion; 10 pathways to generative devotion; a metaprocess (generative family conversations) to better realize generative devotion; and assumptions about devotion in general, shared devotion, and generative devotion. Concepts are illustrated with quotes from in‐depth interviews.

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“…Religion is salient for many Black Americans—approximately 75% report that religion is very important in their lives (Masci, 2018)—and, both historically and currently, religion has been a central resource for Black families to cope with stress and oppression (Poole, 1990). Theoretical and qualitative work has focused on the use of religion as a coping strategy among strong Black couples during midlife to advance understanding of the marital experiences of Black couples and inform programs to mitigate high rates of relationship instability in this population (Chaney, Shirisia, & Skogrand, 2016; Millett et al., 2018). The present study builds on this literature to investigate the role of religious coping among Black couples in one key domain of marital quality, marital love.…”

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“…Love also is considered to be a defining element of romantic relationships and has been linked to relationship satisfaction and stability, and, among Black couples, co‐parenting quality (Brown, 2019; Riina & McHale, 2015). In one study, Black couples reported that their faith enhanced their love for their spouse and children (Millett et al., 2018), and a nationally representative study found that ethnic minority individuals experienced more expressed love than did Whites at higher levels of perceived spousal religiosity (Perry, 2016).…”

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Religious Coping and Gender Moderate Trajectories of Marital Love among Black Couples

Jenkins

Fredman

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Family Process

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An increasing body of work documents the roles of religion and spirituality in Black American marriages. We built on this research to examine religious coping as a potential cultural resource for Black marriages using a dyadic analytic approach with longitudinal data. Specifically, we investigated the effects of positive (i.e., sense of spiritual connectedness) and negative (i.e., spiritual tension or struggle) religious coping on trajectories of marital love reported by wives and husbands in 161 Black, married, mixed‐gender couples, and we tested the potential moderating role of spouse gender. At baseline, spouses reported on their religious coping, and they rated their marital love at baseline and during two additional home interviews conducted annually. Data were analyzed using growth curve modeling within an Actor‐Partner Interdependence Modeling framework. Husbands who reported more positive religious coping at baseline exhibited relatively high and stable marital love over time, whereas those who reported less positive religious coping reported less love at baseline and exhibited declines in love over time. Wives who reported less negative religious coping at baseline were higher in marital love initially but showed declines over time, whereas those who reported more negative religious coping at baseline were lower in marital love initially but showed increases in love over time. Results highlight the importance of further research on the role of religion and religious coping in Black couples’ marital experiences and suggest differential roles of positive and negative religious coping for men’s and women’s marital love. Clinical and policy implications are discussed.

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Weathering the Storm: The Shelter of Faith for Black American Christian Families

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Sanctification of couple relationships and communal coping in married and cohabiting African American couples.

Sanctification of couple relationships and communal coping in married and cohabiting African American couples.

Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

Religious Coping and Gender Moderate Trajectories of Marital Love among Black Couples

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