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- Title
Stress and Hope at the Margins: Qualitative Research on Depression and Religious Coping among Low-Income Mothers.
- Authors
Morgan, Jonathan; Curtis, Cara E.; Laird, Lance D.
- Abstract
For many people across the world, experiences of depression include features that extend beyond the biopsychiatric model, which predominates in research on the relationship between religious and spiritual coping and depressive symptoms. How does attending to these diverse experiences of depression challenge our understanding of the dynamic between religiosity and depression? This paper presents thirteen qualitative interviews among economically marginalized mothers in the metro-Boston area. Analyzing these narratives presents a complex picture of the way chronic situational stress lies beneath their experiences of depression. From this expanded view of depressive experiences, we analyze the religious coping strategies of social support and meaning making to reveal the holistic, yet often ambiguous, ways these mothers engaged religious and spiritual resources to forge hope amidst chronic stress.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; MENTAL depression; MENTAL health &; religion; LOW-income mothers; PSYCHOLOGY; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Archive for the Psychology of Religion / Archiv für Religionspsychologie, 2017, Vol 39, Issue 3, p205
- ISSN
0084-6724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15736121-12341345