Pain, Spirituality, and Meaning Making: What Can We Learn from the Literature?
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2010-12-31
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Religion and spirituality are two methods of meaning making that impact a person’s ability to cope, tolerate, and accept disease and pain. The biopsychosocial-spiritual model includes the human spirit’s drive toward meaning-making along with personality, mental health, age, sex, social relationships, and reactions to stress. In this review, studies focusing on religion’s and spirituality’s effect upon pain in relationship to physical and mental health, spiritual practices, and the placebo response are examined. The findings suggest that people who are self efficacious and more religiously and spiritually open to seeking a connection to a meaningful spiritual practice and/or the transcendent are more able to tolerate pain.Source
Lysne C.J., Wachholtz A.B. Pain, Spirituality, and Meaning Making: What Can We Learn from the Literature? Religions. 2011; 2(1):1-16. doi:10.3390/rel2010001DOI
10.3390/rel2010001Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/46017Rights
© 2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/rel2010001