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Religious and secular spirituality: Methodological implications of definitions for health research.
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- "So Much Comes Up": Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy Addressing Existential, Spiritual and Religious Themes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Spirituality and Happiness in Haemodialysis Patients: The Mediating Roles of Life Attitude and Posttraumatic Growth.Nursing open · 2026Observational
- From Military to Civilian Context: Adaptation of the SOCOM Spiritual Fitness Scale and Its Associations with Positive Mental Health and Depression in Poland.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Difficulties Associated With Spiritual Care According to the Nursing Staff at an Oncology Clinic: A 20-Year Longitudinal Mixed Method Case Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Attitudes to Spiritual Care Among Nursing Staff in an Oncology Clinic in 2003 and 2023: A Longitudinal Quantitative Case Study.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- The Nursing Staff's Understandings of Spiritual Care in an Oncology Clinic in 2003 and 2023: A Mixed Method Longitudinal Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
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Abstract
The importance of spirituality as a research topic has been increasingly recognized, which has led to several studies on the topic. Areas including psychology, medicine, and nursing have produced studies on spirituality under a plurality of definitions and methods, which reveals the complexity of the theme. However, this has resulted in a range of potential problems, including: (1) the use of overlapping and contradictory terms between studies, or even within the same study, (2) research methodologies that do not fit the definitions (sometimes unreflectively) assumed by the authors, (3) difficulties, or even the impossibility, of comparing the results of studies, (4) controversies in respect of the inclusion/exclusion of secular groups in research on spirituality, and (5) ambiguous measurements, often being exclusively dependent on each participant's individual interpretation of what spirituality means. This article discusses these problems, recommends theoretical and methodological alternatives and presents taxonomy of definitions of spirituality.
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