RT Article T1 Systemically Exploring Student Debt: Methodological Challenges for Pastoral Theology JF Pastoral psychology VO 65 IS 5 SP 631 OP 641 A1 Doehring, Carrie 1954- LA English PB Springer Science Business Media B. V. YR 2016 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1565821556 AB Moral stress arising from student debt is defined here as a psycho-spiritual stress response to the North American dream of achievement through individual hard work, which implicitly blames students for educational debt, exacerbating shame about aspects of their identity (their race, social class, gender, sexual orientation). A critical correlational method brings psychological research on moral stress, moral emotions, and religious struggles into dialogue with pastoral theologies of intersectionality and lived theologies of the North American dream in order to construct a compassion-based relational process of theological reflexivity fostering spiritually integrated financial resilience among students, staff, faculty, trustees, and denominational partners at theological schools. K1 CORRELATION (Statistics) K1 Critical correlational method K1 EMOTIONS (Psychology) K1 Identity (Psychology) K1 Moral emotions K1 Moral stress K1 Pastoral Theology K1 Stress (Psychology) K1 Student debt DO 10.1007/s11089-016-0696-2