title: Christian religious functioning and trauma outcomes.
abstract: While some trauma survivors find their faith helpful in recovery, others find it a source of distress, and still others abandon their faith. More complex conceptualizations of religious functioning are needed to explore its relationship with trauma. This study explores such relationships using measures of religious action and behaviors in a community sample of 327 church-going, self-identified trauma survivors. A principal components analysis of positive and negative religious coping, religious comforts and strains, and prayer functions identified two dimensions: Seeking Spiritual Support, which was positively related to posttraumatic growth, and Religious Strain, which was positively related to posttraumatic symptoms.
authors.affiliation: VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA. jeanette.harris2@med.va.gov
authors.forename: J Irene
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Erbes
authors.forename: Brian E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Engdahl
authors.forename: Raymond H A
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Ann Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Winskowski
authors.forename: Joelle
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McMahill
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*