People who experience major life crises often report post-traumatic stress. However, the
literature suggests that traumatic experiences can also be" catalysts" for positive change (ie …

Objective: The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesize the existing empirical
psychology of religion/spirituality (R/S) and disaster research and offer a prospectus for …

Conservation of resources (COR) theory offers a framework within which to understand
responses to stress and suggests that stress results from circumstances involving threatened …

Physical and existential threats stemming from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic may provoke religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles or exacerbate preexisting angst …

Natural disasters can lead to mental health problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Higher levels of loss and/or disruption and prior trauma exposure constitute risk …

The goal of this longitudinal qualitative study was to develop a grounded theory of religious
meaning making and attachment in a disaster context. At 1-month (T1; n= 36) and 6-months …

In this chapter, we use Park's (Park's (2010) meaning making model as a framework for
organizing current knowledge of how people recover from disasters, highly stressful events …

Religious and spiritual beliefs serve a number of functions, including promoting mental
health in the wake of negative life events. We explore the “meaning as a buffer” hypothesis …

Objective: In this article, we develop and validate a measure of spiritual fortitude (SF). SF is
defined as a character trait enabling people to endure and make redemptive meaning from …

Abstract Objective Religious/spiritual (R/S) growth is a core domain of posttraumatic growth
(PTG). However, research on R/S growth following disasters has over‐relied on …