The Vigil
Religion and the Search for Control in the Hospital Waiting Room
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4227151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth I Pargament (0000-0001-8488-7291), Brenda Cole (Bowling Green State University), Larry Vandecreek (The Healthcare Chaplaincy, New York City, New York), Timothy Belavich (Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois), Timothy G Belavich, Curtis Brant (Baldwin Wallace University), Curtis R Brant, Lisa Pérez (Robert Taft Laboratories, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio), Lisa M Pérez (0000-0003-1176-1027) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-341 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135910539900400303 |
| PMID | 22021601 |
| OpenAlex | W1965859245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 39 |
This study examined how religion is involved in achieving a sense of personal control in a situation that evokes feelings of distress and vulnerability. One hundred and fifty family members, waiting in the hospital while their relative underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, completed a survey about their methods of coping, event-specific outcomes, and adjustment (depression and anxiety). As predicted, religious methods of coping designed to achieve control predicted outcomes and adjustment beyond the effects of non-religious coping measures and traditional general measures of religiousness. A collaborative approach to religious coping, in which the individual shares the responsibility for coping with God, was particularly associated with better outcomes. However, the religious coping measures were also associated with higher self-reported levels of depression and anxiety. Exploratory path analyses suggested that anxiety and depression may be stressors in themselves, eliciting religious coping responses which, in turn, lead to specific outcomes. These findings underscore the practical and empirical value of a closer, more detailed analysis of the roles of religion in coping with uncontrollable life stressors
Anxiety · Coping (psychology · Distress · Feeling · Psychiatry · Stressor · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
A Decade of Research on the Psychology of Religion and Coping
Authors' Responses
The epidemiology of religious coping
Spirituality and health
Religious coping and psychological adjustment to stress
The Relationship Between Religious Coping Style and Anxiety over Breast Cancer in African American Women
What Do Chaplains Really Do? I. Visitation in the New York Chaplaincy Study
“I Honestly Believe God Keeps me Healthy so I Can Take Care of My Child”
Is Adolescents' Religious Coping with Cystic Fibrosis Associated with the Rate of Decline in Pulmonary Function?—A Preliminary Study
Using Spirituality After an Adult CF Diagnosis
Relationships among religious coping, optimism, and outcomes for persons with psychiatric disabilities
Relationships Between Negative Spiritual Beliefs and Health Outcomes for Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Conditions
Long-term Care Residents' Views About the Contributions of Christian-based Volunteers in Taiwan
Spirituality, Life Stress, and Affective Well-Being
Religious Coping Styles and Recovery from Serious Mental Illnesses
The Effect of Pastoral Care Services on Anxiety, Depression, Hope, Religious Coping, and Religious Problem Solving Styles
How Spirituality Helps Cancer Patients with the Adjustment to their Disease
At the intersection of culture and religion
Religious Coping Style, Concept of God, and Personal Religious Variables in Threat, Loss, and Challenge Situations
Anxiety and Depression during the Second Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Religious Involvement, Coping, Social Support, and Psychological Distress in HIV-Seropositive African American Mothers
Broken Together”
God Help Me
Religioossed ja spirituaalsed kriisid vaimse tervise valguses
The Sacred and the Search for Significance
Tourism and Spirituality
Theodicy and Crisis
Occupational Stressors and Flourishing among Roman Catholic Priests
Religious coping research and contemporary personality theory
Spiritually and Religiously Oriented Health Interventions
Spirituality, Breast Cancer Beliefs and Mammography Utilization among Urban African American Women
Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients
Faith Factors and Internal Health Locus of Control in Patients Prior to Open-heart Surgery
Stress, Religious Coping Resources, and Depressive Symptoms in an Urban Adolescent Sample
Sacrilege
The Use of Religion and Other Emotion-Regulating Coping Strategies Among Older Adults
The use of religious coping during stressful life events
Stress, appraisal, and coping
The CES-D Scale
Structural Equations with Latent Variables
A Controlled Evaluation of Devotional Meditation and Progressive Relaxation
The role of religious values in coping with cancer
Coping with breast cancer
Religious faith and adjustment to long-term hemodialysis
A Comparison of Adult Bereavement in the Death of a Spouse, Child, and Parent
Religiosity Related to Grief Levels of Bereaved Mothers and Fathers
God help me
How to feel better when it feels bad
The illusion of mental health
Psychological Adjustment and Religiousness
Intrinsic Religiousness, Religious Coping, and Psychosocial Competence
Maintaining perceptions of control
On fighting versus accepting stressful circumstances
Adjustment to the stress of simulated captivity
Changing the world and changing the self
Does coping help? A reexamination of the relation between coping and mental health
Assessing coping strategies
Primary versus secondary and central versus consequence-related control in HIV-positive men
Personal control and stress and coping processes
A guide to constructs of control
Negative reactions to increases in perceived personal control
Intrinsic religiousness and religious coping as life stress moderators for Catholics versus Protestants
Religion and psychological distress in a community sample
An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample
Religion and the Problem-Solving Process
The Stress-Buffering Role of Spiritual Support
Methods of Religious Coping with the Gulf War
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |