Are Rural Clergy in the Church of England under Greater Stress?: A Study in Empirical Theology
This study begins by examining the concept of clergy stress and the theory that rural clergy may be under greater stress than other clergy. Then it reviews available empirical evidence concerned with the distinctiveness of the rural church, the assessment of clergy stress and burnout, and the role o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2000
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 173-191 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This study begins by examining the concept of clergy stress and the theory that rural clergy may be under greater stress than other clergy. Then it reviews available empirical evidence concerned with the distinctiveness of the rural church, the assessment of clergy stress and burnout, and the role of personality in clergy research. Against this background new data are presented on Maslach’s three component model of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment) among a random sample of over one thousand full-time stipendiary male parochial Anglican clergy. The evidence suggests that rural clergy have a lower sense of personal accomplishment than comparable clergy working in other types of parishes, but that they suffer neither from higher levels of emotional exhaustion nor from higher levels of depersonalization. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004493278_012 |