Religiosität, Spiritualität, Gesundheit und berufsbezogene Verhaltensmuster bei Pastoren zweier freikirchlich-protestantischer Denominationen

Voltmer, Edgar; Büssing, Arndt; Christine, Thomas; Spahn, Claudia

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1243225

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“…High DSE's strongly predicted attitude towards and utilization of religion in social work practice, whereas organized religion measures were not predictive [50]. A study of Protestant ministers in Germany showed more DSE's correlated with diminished burnout [51].…”

Section: Dses Work-related Outcomes and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 88%

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Overview and Results

Underwood¹

2011

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The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) is a 16-item self-report measure designed to assess ordinary experiences of connection with the transcendent in daily life. It includes constructs such as awe, gratitude, mercy, sense of connection with the transcendent and compassionate love. It also includes measures of awareness of discernment/inspiration and a sense of deep inner peace. Originally developed for use in health studies, it has been increasingly used more widely in the social sciences, for program evaluation, and for examining changes in spiritual experiences over time. Also it has been used in counseling, addiction treatment settings, and religious organizations. It has been included in longitudinal health studies and in the U.S. General Social Survey which established random-sample population norms. It has publications on its psychometric validity in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Mandarin Chinese. Translations have been made into twenty languages including Hindi, Hebrew and Arabic and the scale has been effectively used in a variety of cultures. The 16-item scale does not have a psychometrically representative shorter form although a 6-item adaptation has been used. The DSES was developed using extensive qualitative testing in a variety of groups, which has helped its capacity to be useful in a variety of settings. It was constructed to reflect an overlapping circle model of spirituality/religiousness and contains items that are more specifically theistic in nature, as well as items to tap the spiritual experience of those who are not comfortable with theistic language. The scale has been used in over 70 published studies. This paper will provide an overview of the scale itself, describe why it has proved useful, and discuss some studies using the scale. See http://www.dsescale.org/ for more information on the scale.

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Section: Dses Work-related Outcomes and Burnoutmentioning

confidence: 88%

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Overview and Results

Underwood¹

2011

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“…For example, it was used to study the relations between working behaviors and psychological and psychosomatic symptoms (Bauer et al 2006), to track changes in students' working behavior over time (Voltmer et al 2010b) or to compare behavior and experience patterns of diVerent occupational types (Voltmer et al 2011). Voltmer et al (2010a) studied the working behaviors of pastors from two diVerent evangelical denominations. They found a diVerence between the healthier types G and S and the risk pattern B in the dimensions of daily spiritual experience (e.g., "to sense the presence of god") and positive religious coping (e.g., "to Wnd strength and support in god"), with higher expressions for the healthier types.…”

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The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns

Gander

Proyer

Ruch

et al. 2012

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…As a consequence it is to expect that spiritual life and fulfilment will be affected too either in a positive or negative way. In fact, first findings among protestant pastors show that higher spirituality was related to healthier work-related behaviour patterns [13]. But what about spiritual feelings of those who professionally care for the spiritual side of others, what about chaplains and priests who are suggested to have an active spiritual life?…”

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Spiritual Dryness as a Measure of a Specific Spiritual Crisis in Catholic Priests: Associations with Symptoms of Burnout and Distress

Büssing

Günther

Baumann

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Spirituality/religiosity is recognized as a resource to cope with burdening life events and chronic illness. However, less is known about the consequences of the lack of positive spiritual feelings. Spiritual dryness in clergy has been described as spiritual lethargy, a lack of vibrant spiritual encounter with God, and an absence of spiritual resources, such as spiritual renewal practices. To operationalize experiences of “spiritual dryness” in terms of a specific spiritual crisis, we have developed the “spiritual dryness scale” (SDS). Here, we describe the validation of the instrument which was applied among other standardized questionnaires in a sample of 425 Catholic priests who professionally care for the spiritual sake of others. Feelings of “spiritual dryness” were experienced occasionally by up to 40%, often or even regularly by up to 13%. These experiences can explain 44% of variance in daily spiritual experiences, 30% in depressive symptoms, 22% in perceived stress, 20% in emotional exhaustion, 19% in work engagement, and 21% of variance of ascribed importance of religious activity. The SDS-5 can be used as a specific measure of spiritual crisis with good reliability and validity in further studies.

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Religiosität, Spiritualität, Gesundheit und berufsbezogene Verhaltensmuster bei Pastoren zweier freikirchlich-protestantischer Denominationen

Abstract: The results show distinct psychosocial strain patterns of pastors. Religiosity and spirituality may be an important resource.

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Overview and Results

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Overview and Results

The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns

Spiritual Dryness as a Measure of a Specific Spiritual Crisis in Catholic Priests: Associations with Symptoms of Burnout and Distress

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