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The Sacred and Stressed: Testing a Model of Clergy Health
J Drake Terry1,2, Christopher J L Cunningham3
1Department of Psychology, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA. jterr003@odu.edu.
Clergy mental health improves with more job control and social support. Spiritual well-being is also impacted by job demands, highlighting the need for occupation-specific assessments.
Area of Science:
- Occupational Health Psychology
- Sociology of Religion
Background:
- Clergy are a high-risk, often overlooked population.
- Clergy's personal well-being impacts their ability to support congregants.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and test an operational model of clergy holistic health.
- To examine the influence of occupational demands and resources on clergy well-being.
Main Methods:
- Collected data from 418 clergy members.
- Utilized correlational and regression-based analyses.
- Tested the demands-control-support model.
Main Results:
- Findings support the demands-control-support model for clergy.
- Increased work-related social support and job control positively impact clergy mental health.
- Job-related demands significantly affect spiritual well-being.
Conclusions:
- Clergy mental health can be enhanced through increased social support and job control.
- Spiritual well-being is a crucial outcome influenced by job demands.
- Occupation-specific measures are valuable for assessing clergy job demands.
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