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Do Self-efficacy Expectation and Spirituality Provide a Buffer Against Stress-Associated Impairment of Health? A Comprehensive Analysis of the German Pastoral Ministry Study

verfasst von: Eckhard Frick, Arndt Büssing, Klaus Baumann, Wolfgang Weig, Christoph Jacobs

Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health | Ausgabe 2/2016

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We aimed to analyse stress perception, psychosomatic health and life satisfaction in pastoral professionals, paying particular attention to their individual and shared resources. Enrolling 8574 German pastoral professionals (48 % priests, 22 % parish expert workers, 18 % pastoral assistants, 12 % deacons), we found that pastoral professionals’ stress perception is associated with psychosomatic health impairment. General self-efficacy was a beneficial resource to protect against stress perceptions, while perception of the transcendent had a further yet weakly positive influence for stress-related impairment of health. External stressors (i.e. team size, duration of work per week and size of pastoral unit) were only of marginal independent relevance.

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Titel: Do Self-efficacy Expectation and Spirituality Provide a Buffer Against Stress-Associated Impairment of Health? A Comprehensive Analysis of the German Pastoral Ministry Study
verfasst von: Eckhard Frick
Arndt Büssing
Klaus Baumann
Wolfgang Weig
Christoph Jacobs
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2016
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health / Ausgabe 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-015-0040-7

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