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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freyja Grupp ◽  
Sara Skandrani ◽  
Marie Rose Moro ◽  
Ricarda Mewes

Context: Diasporic Cameroonians are increasingly leading a transnational life in which family members are sustained through networks of relations and obligations. However, before arriving in Europe, the vast majority of African migrants who take the Mediterranean route are exposed to trauma and hardship. Moreover, the joint occurrence of forced displacement, trauma, and extended separation from families has a significant impact on mental health.Objectives: This study explores the role of culture-specific conceptualizations of family structures and transnationalism in explanatory models of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among male Cameroonian asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants in Europe.Methods: An in-depth study of two samples of Cameroonian migrants with a precarious residency status in Europe was conducted. Focus group discussions and interviews were carried out with asylum seekers in Germany (n = 8) and undocumented migrants and failed asylum seekers in France (n = 9). The verbatim transcripts of these interviews served as the data for interpretative phenomenological analyses.Results, Analysis, and Discussion: Family was conceptualized in religious and spiritual terms, and relational spirituality appeared to be a crucial element of family cohesion. Explanatory models of PTSD were mainly based on an intersection of family and spirituality. The disrespect of transgenerational, traditional, and spiritual obligations toward parents and ancestral spirits represented a crucial causal attribution for post-traumatic symptoms.Conclusions: Conceptualizations of post-traumatic stress were based on a collective family and spiritual level instead of an individualized illness-centered perception. The Western psychological and psychiatric perspective on post-traumatic stress might conflict with traditional, religious, and spiritual practices in the context of family conceptualizations of Cameroonian forced migrants with a precarious residency status.


Author(s):  
Peter J. Jankowski ◽  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
David C. Wang ◽  
Peter Hill

Author(s):  
Amy L. Chapman ◽  
Lauren Foley ◽  
Jenifer Halliday ◽  
Lisa Miller
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Author(s):  
Peter J. Jankowski ◽  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
Elizabeth G. Ruffing ◽  
Sarah A. Crabtree ◽  
Chance A. Bell ◽  
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2021 ◽  
pp. 009164712198896
Author(s):  
Elizabeth G. Ruffing ◽  
Dottie Oleson ◽  
James Tomlinson ◽  
Seong Hyun Park ◽  
Steven J. Sandage

The present study investigated the unique contributions of relational spirituality and humility factors to seminary students’ eudaimonic well-being in a diverse sample ( n = 111) of urban seminary students. Hypotheses were developed in conversation with this research on humility, seminary student formation, and virtue ethics. As hypothesized, the relational spirituality factors of differentiation of self and quest exploration each made a significant independent contribution in predicting students’ well-being over and above impression management. In addition, humility-cultivating practices and dispositional humility were modestly correlated and each made a significant independent contribution in predicting well-being over and above relational spirituality factors and impression management. Implications for future research and for seminary student formation are discussed.


Author(s):  
Everett L. Worthington ◽  
Steven J. Sandage

Author(s):  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
Peter J. Jankowski ◽  
David R. Paine ◽  
Julie J. Exline ◽  
Elizabeth G. Ruffing ◽  
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Author(s):  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
David Rupert ◽  
George Stavros ◽  
Nancy G. Devor

Author(s):  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
David Rupert ◽  
George Stavros ◽  
Nancy G. Devor

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