We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Religious and Non-Religious Pathways to Stress-Related Growth in Cancer Survivors.
- Authors
Park, Crystal L.; Edmondson, Donald; Blank, Thomas O.
- Abstract
While religiousness and spirituality are important to many cancer survivors, relations of religiousness and spirituality with the stress-related growth commonly reported by survivors have not been well documented. In the present study, we examined the linkages between personal religiousness, religious control appraisals for the cancer, and religious coping with subsequent stress related growth, and compared them with a parallel secular pathway, hope, self-control appraisals, and active coping. In all, 172 young to middle-aged adult survivors (113 women, 59 men, mean age = 45 years) of a variety of types of cancer who had been diagnosed approximately 2.5 years prior were assessed twice across a 1-year period. A structural equation model indicated that while both pathways predicted stress-related growth, the religious pathway was a much stronger predictor of subsequent stress-related growth than was the secular pathway. We suggest that more attention should be given to the influence of multiple dimensions of religiousness and spirituality on growth to better understand the transformative processes reported by many survivors.
- Subjects
CANCER patients' religious life; SECULAR humanism; SPIRITUALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; RELIGIOUSNESS; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION
- Publication
Applied Psychology: Health & Well-Being, 2009, Vol 1, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
1758-0846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1758-0854.2009.01009.x