Grossoehme Daniel H, Cotton Sian, Leonard Anthony
Cincinnati Children's Hospital College Hill Campus, 5642 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45224, USA.
J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2007 Fall;61(3):197-204. doi: 10.1177/154230500706100304.
One hundred twenty-two adolescent psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders and 80 healthy peers were administered the INSPIRIT, a measure of core spiritual experiences. Healthy adolescents reported a greater frequency of spiritual experiences and a more positive impact of such experiences on their belief in God than did their inpatient peers. Adolescent inpatients reported higher frequencies of experiencing angels, demons, God or guiding spirits; feeling unity with the earth and other living things; and with near death or life after death as compared to healthy peers. Overall, females reported higher frequency of spiritual experiences and higher impact of the experience on their belief in God than did males. It was concluded that the INSPIRIT is a feasible spiritual assessment tool for adolescent populations and may be used by chaplains as a means for guiding clinical conversations with adolescents.
122名患有抑郁症的青少年精神科住院患者和80名健康同龄人接受了“INSPIRIT”测试，这是一种对核心精神体验的测量工具。与住院患者同龄人相比，健康青少年报告的精神体验频率更高，且此类体验对他们对上帝的信仰产生的积极影响更大。与健康同龄人相比，青少年住院患者报告经历天使、恶魔、上帝或引导神灵的频率更高；感觉与地球和其他生物融为一体的频率更高；以及经历濒死或死后生活的频率更高。总体而言，女性报告的精神体验频率更高，且该体验对她们对上帝的信仰产生的影响比男性更大。研究得出结论，“INSPIRIT”是一种适用于青少年群体的可行的精神评估工具，牧师可将其作为引导与青少年进行临床对话的一种手段。
