Hinkel Hannah M, Isaak Steven L, Abernethy Alexis D, Witvliet Charlotte V O, Schnitker Sarah A, Root Luna Lindsey M, Currier Joseph M
Psychology Department, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Fuller Theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, California, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2021 Apr;77(4):1054-1067. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23096. Epub 2020 Dec 17.
Religious beliefs and practices may augment a sense of meaning in life that could support quality of life (QOL) in physical, social, and emotional domains amid mental health crises. However, these associations have not been thoroughly tested among persons with serious mental illness (SMI).
Focusing on 248 adults who had recently enrolled in a spiritually integrated acute psychiatric hospitalization program, we incorporated structural equation modeling to examine whether (1) religiousness would be associated with better overall QOL; and (2) inpatients' sense of meaning in life would at least partially account for the religiousness-QOL link.
Religiousness was linked indirectly with QOL at the time of admission: religiousness was associated with greater meaning in life, and a higher degree of meaning in life was associated with QOL.
Findings underscore the crucial role of religiousness for meaning and wellness among many individuals with SMI who seek stabilization and healing.
宗教信仰和实践可能会增强生活意义感，在心理健康危机期间，这种意义感可以在身体、社会和情感领域支持生活质量（QOL）。然而，这些关联尚未在患有严重精神疾病（SMI）的人群中得到充分检验。
针对248名最近参加了一个精神整合急性精神病住院项目的成年人，我们采用结构方程模型来检验：（1）宗教信仰是否与更好的总体生活质量相关；（2）住院患者的生活意义感是否至少部分解释了宗教信仰与生活质量之间的联系。
入院时，宗教信仰与生活质量间接相关：宗教信仰与更强的生活意义感相关，而更高程度的生活意义感与生活质量相关。
研究结果强调了宗教信仰对于许多寻求稳定和康复的SMI患者的意义和健康的关键作用。
