Krumrei-Mancuso Elizabeth J, Trammell Janet P, Harriger Jennifer A, Evans Joshua A
Pepperdine University, USA.
Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2025 Apr-Jun;25(2):100578. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100578. Epub 2025 May 2.
Most mental health professionals are expected to have some basic competency in religious and spiritual issues. Such competency includes knowledge about the role of religion/spirituality in people's lives, particularly as it relates to mental health. The current research explored people's cognitive appraisals of sanctification, by which individuals interpret stimuli to be sacred. To gain a better understanding of the spontaneous cognitive appraisals of sanctification people form during daily life, we randomly assigned religious and/or spiritual individuals ( = 144) to an event reconstruction of a time they experienced something as sacred, divine, miraculous, spiritual, holy, or blessed. We qualitatively coded 28 features of these event reconstructions. Participants' most common descriptions involved sanctification of people, relationships, and places that were not considered sacred in and of themselves, but were considered sacred by association to higher powers or transcendent realities. Common features of sacredness reconstructions included emotions and sensory experiences. We also observed differences in the features associated with each sacred adjective (sacred, divine, miraculous, spiritual, holy, or blessed). We discuss implications for mental health professionals and for the advancement of the science of sanctification.
大多数心理健康专业人员都应具备一些宗教和精神问题方面的基本能力。这种能力包括了解宗教/精神性在人们生活中的作用，尤其是其与心理健康的关系。当前的研究探讨了人们对神圣化的认知评估，即个体将刺激解释为神圣的过程。为了更好地理解人们在日常生活中形成的对神圣化的自发认知评估，我们将宗教和/或精神性个体（n = 144）随机分配，让他们对自己经历过被视为神圣、神奇、精神性、圣洁或有福之事的某个时刻进行事件重构。我们对这些事件重构的28个特征进行了定性编码。参与者最常见的描述涉及对人、人际关系和场所的神圣化，这些事物本身并不被视为神圣，但通过与更高力量或超验现实的关联而被视为神圣。神圣性重构的共同特征包括情感和感官体验。我们还观察到与每个神圣形容词（神圣、神奇、奇迹、精神性、圣洁或有福）相关的特征存在差异。我们讨论了这对心理健康专业人员以及神圣化科学发展的启示。
