Religion and spirituality as facilitating mental health and coping with trauma
(2024) International conference on Psychological trauma and post-traumatic growth — Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- There exists a plethora of studies, and even a plethora of reviews of these studies, examining the relationships between religion and spirituality (R/S), on the one hand, and well-being and mental and physical health, on the other hand. In this talk, based on the four basic dimensions of religiousness model (believing, bonding, behaving, and believing), I will first present a conceptual synthesis of the accumulated knowledge by focusing on the many distinct explanatory mechanisms behind the above relationships: cognitive, emotional, moral, and social processes. Second, R/S having been proved to be helpful in the context of traumatic experiences, I will review empirical research that clarifies the links between R/S and specific coping styles, research showing affinities of R/S with certain but not all coping styles. Taken together, these two syntheses suggest that R/S have possibly not a critical, but a complementary and certainly unique, role in coping with trauma.
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Saroglou, V. (2024). Religion and spirituality as facilitating mental health and coping with trauma. International conference on Psychological trauma and post-traumatic growth, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/241398