Constructing Spiritual Attachment: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Overeaters’ Use of Spiritual Beliefs for Recovery
This qualitative study aims to investigate the research question: How do a person's spiritual beliefs influence their recovery from overeating? This investigation is driven by a recognized research gap concerning the role of spirituality in the context of process addictions like overeating. Exp...
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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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2025
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| In: |
Pastoral psychology
Year: 2025, Volume: 74, Issue: 6, Pages: 885-900 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Addiction B Overeating B 12-step recovery B Grounded Theory |
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| Summary: | This qualitative study aims to investigate the research question: How do a person's spiritual beliefs influence their recovery from overeating? This investigation is driven by a recognized research gap concerning the role of spirituality in the context of process addictions like overeating. Exploring the connection between spirituality and overeating offers insight into the dynamics of recovery from addictive behaviors. Overeating research identifies people suffering from their addiction with increased instances of binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. These symptoms lead to an increase in health risk factors compared to their undiagnosed peers (Carter et al. Appetite, 133, 362-369, 2019). Prevention research within the field has examined the effectiveness of 12-step programs as a peer-based intervention for addiction recovery but does not examine the functioning of spirituality in a person’s life despite its use in such programs (Bray et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14), 7303, 2021). This study examines the function of a person’s spiritual beliefs in their addiction recovery by using retrospective autobiographical narratives documented in the 2014 Overeaters Anonymous manual. Autobiographical narratives were coded using Auerbach and Silverstein’s grounded theory coding methodology in which the coders extracted relevant text, repeating ideas, themes, and explanatory theoretical constructs from the narratives. The findings inform clinical research concerning the identification and description of effective spiritual interventions and elucidate the theory of spirituality as a tool for 12-step recovery from overeating. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-025-01233-3 |
