The psychological outcome of religious coping with stressful life events in a Swiss sample of church attendees

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-244

  Winter, Urs ^a   Hauri, Dimitri ^b   Huber, Stefan ^c   Jenewein, Josef ^b   Schnyder, Ulrich ^b   Kraemer, Bernd ^b  

^a Saint Otmar Church ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Psychological outcome; Religious coping; Religiousness; Spirituality; Stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STRESS; SWITZERLAND; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPIRITUALITY; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049132126     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000219523     Document Type: Article

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