RT Article
T1 Stress and Hope at the Margins
JF Archive for the psychology of religion
VO 39
IS 3
SP 205
OP 234
A1 Morgan, Jonathan
A2 Curtis, Cara E.
A2 Laird, Lance D.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566786002
AB For many people across the world, experiences of depression include features that extend beyond the biopsychiatric model, which predominates in research on the relationship between religious and spiritual coping and depressive symptoms. How does attending to these diverse experiences of depression challenge our understanding of the dynamic between religiosity and depression? This paper presents thirteen qualitative interviews among economically marginalized mothers in the metro-Boston area. Analyzing these narratives presents a complex picture of the way chronic situational stress lies beneath their experiences of depression. From this expanded view of depressive experiences, we analyze the religious coping strategies of social support and meaning making to reveal the holistic, yet often ambiguous, ways these mothers engaged religious and spiritual resources to forge hope amidst chronic stress.
K1 Religious Coping : depression : explanatory models : hope : stress : social support : meaning making
DO 10.1163/15736121-12341345