Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens

Religious beliefs and practices are thought to help people confront problems that push the limits of human life. Integrating the life course perspective, we assess whether the accumulation of religiosity (“spiritual capital”) between childhood and adulthood had any bearing on its ability to cushion...

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Autor principal: Upenieks, Laura (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
En: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Año: 2022, Volumen: 61, Número: 1, Páginas: 119-141
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Religiosidad / Paciente con cáncer / Salud mental / Superación / Curso de vida
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AE Psicología de la religión
Otras palabras clave:B Life Course
B Spiritual Capital
B religious importance
B Mental Health
B Cancer
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Sumario:Religious beliefs and practices are thought to help people confront problems that push the limits of human life. Integrating the life course perspective, we assess whether the accumulation of religiosity (“spiritual capital”) between childhood and adulthood had any bearing on its ability to cushion the mental health insults of a cancer diagnosis, factoring in age-at-diagnosis. Using two waves of data from National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (N = 1431), results suggest that stable high religious importance between childhood and adulthood weakened the deleterious mental health consequences of a cancer diagnosis. For individuals under the age of 45, the relationship between a cancer diagnosis and psychological distress was considerably weaker for those reporting stably high or increasing religious importance between childhood and adulthood. We discuss the implications of our results for research at the intersection religion and the life course perspective.
ISSN:1468-5906
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12765