Religious coping among older, unemployed workers: Narratives of the job-loss experience
This article is a qualitative examination of how older workers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession and its prolonged recovery employed religion to cope with this stressful experience. Based on 62 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with middle-class adults age 50 or older, our data revea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2018]
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Journal of religion, spirituality & aging
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 325-353 |
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Religious Coping
B and Great Recession B job loss B Unemployment B Older workers |
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| Summary: | This article is a qualitative examination of how older workers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession and its prolonged recovery employed religion to cope with this stressful experience. Based on 62 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with middle-class adults age 50 or older, our data reveal five distinct themes in relation to religious coping with the job-loss experience: faith as solace, surrendering to God, meaning making, discontent with God or believers, and gaining strength from religious community. Findings are placed in the context of the broader religious coping literature and several empirical and applied implications are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-8049 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, spirituality & aging
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2018.1461729 |