Changes in Sabbath-Keeping and Mental Health Over Time: Evaluation Findings From the Sabbath Living Study
Work-related stress is experienced at a high level in the United States. Clergy are particularly likely to over-extend themselves to act on their sacred call. Sabbath-keeping may offer a practice that is beneficial for mental health, yet many Protestant clergy do not keep a regular Sabbath. We exami...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage Publishing
2022
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Journal of psychology and theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 50, Heft: 2, Seiten: 123-138 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Pfarrer
/ Psychische Gesundheit
/ Sabbat
/ Ruhe
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| IxTheo Notationen: | CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität RB Kirchliches Amt; Gemeinde ZD Psychologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Intervention
B positive psychology B Mental Illness B Sabbath B Mental Health B Spiritual well-being |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Work-related stress is experienced at a high level in the United States. Clergy are particularly likely to over-extend themselves to act on their sacred call. Sabbath-keeping may offer a practice that is beneficial for mental health, yet many Protestant clergy do not keep a regular Sabbath. We examined whether United Methodist clergy who attended informative Sabbath-keeping workshops reported changes in spiritual well-being and mental health post-workshop. Compared to baseline, at 3 and 9 months post-workshop, participants reported an increase in Sabbath-keeping. In adjusted random effects and Poisson models, compared to not changing Sabbath-keeping frequency, increasing Sabbath-keeping was related to only one outcome: greater feelings of personal accomplishment at work. Decreasing Sabbath-keeping was related to worse anxiety symptoms, lower spiritual well-being in ministry scores, and a higher probability of having less than flourishing mental health. For four outcomes, there were no significant associations with changes in Sabbath-keeping over time. Although lacking a control group, this study adds to cross-sectional Sabbath-keeping studies by correlating changes in Sabbath-keeping with changes in mental health outcomes over time. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-1162 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00916471211046227 |