Crisis as opportunity for spiritual growth |
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Authors: | C. Margaret Hall Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C, USA |
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Abstract: | Life-history data from two hundred crisis families and two hundred non-crisis families are examined to specify the influence of crisis conditions on spiritual growth. Members of crisis families making spiritual values their basis for life-orientation appear to live more productively and experience more life-satisfaction than members of crisis families or non-crisis families making no conscious effort to examine values or life-orientation.These findings invite further substantiation of crisis as opportunity for spiritual growth. A clinical implication is that research on optimal functioning, recovery, and spiritual growth is perhaps more needed at present than continued research on pathology and dysfunction. |
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