Trait entitlement: A cognitive-personality source of vulnerability to psychological distress.

JB Grubbs, JJ Exline - Psychological bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological entitlement is a personality trait characterized by pervasive feelings of
deservingness, specialness, and exaggerated expectations. The present review expands …

Spirituality and moral injury among military personnel: A mini-review

S Brémault-Phillips, A Pike, F Scarcella… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Moral injury (MI) results when military personnel are exposed to morally
injurious events that conflict with their values and beliefs. Given the complexity of MI and its …

Personality, religious and spiritual struggles, and well-being.

JA Wilt, JB Grubbs, JJ Exline… - Psychology of Religion …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
The current research examined whether personality traits and religiousness predict features
of religious and spiritual (r/s) struggles and whether features of r/s struggles predict well …

God's role in suffering: Theodicies, divine struggle, and mental health.

JA Wilt, JJ Exline, JB Grubbs, CL Park… - Psychology of religion …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
The present research tested a mediation model specifying that divine struggle (eg, anger at
God, feeling punished or abandoned by God) mediates the associations of beliefs about …

Daily measures of religious/spiritual struggles: Relations to depression, anxiety, satisfaction with life, and meaning.

JA Wilt, JJ Exline, KI Pargament - Psychology of Religion and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Prior research suggests robust links between religious/spiritual struggles and lower levels of
mental health. This work has examined trait measures of religious/spiritual struggles over …

Religious and spiritual struggles, past and present: Relations to the big five and well-being

JA Wilt, JB Grubbs, KI Pargament… - The International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present research examined the relations between the Big Five factors of personality,
religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to r/s life), and …

Religious struggle and life satisfaction among adult Christians: Self-esteem as a mediator

M Szcześniak, C Timoszyk-Tomczak - Journal of religion and health, 2020 - Springer
The religious dimension of life represents an important source of human strength, meaning,
and co** for many people. However, the religious life is not always “smooth and easy” and …

Stressful life events and religiousness predict struggles about religion and spirituality.

N Stauner, JJ Exline, KI Pargament, JA Wilt… - … of Religion and …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Many people experience religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles following specific stressful life
events (SLE). However, SLE may aggregate, gradually undermining individuals' orienting …

Negative religious co** versus spiritual struggles: Moderator or main effect?

S Pirutinsky - Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective While previous research indicates that negative religious co** relates with
distress, it is unclear if this represents generalized spiritual struggles or a specific …

Sad eyes, crooked crosses: Religious struggles, psychological distress and the mediating role of psychosocial resources

TD Hill, L Zeng, S Rambotti, KN Mossakowski… - Journal of Religion and …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we employed data from the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (n= 444) to
formally test whether the association between religious struggles and psychological distress …