Jamie D. Aten

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between intellectual humility toward religious beliefs and values and religious tolerance and found that intellectual humility was a positive predictor of religious tolerance, even when controlling for conservatism and religious commitment.

TL;DR: This review revealed several emerging patterns regarding what is known as well as existing gaps in the literature, including the need for more rigorous methodological designs and ongoing systematic programs of study.

TL;DR: This book offers mental health professionals an in-depth look at how to integrate both Western and Eastern spiritually oriented interventions into clinical practice through a series of carefully selected interventions.

TL;DR: This paper examined associations among resource loss, religiousness (including general religiousness, religious comfort, and religious strain), posttraumatic growth (PTG), and physical and mental health among a sample of Mississippi university students soon after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005.

TL;DR: This paper explored the meaning as a buffer hypothesis, which posits that (spiritual) meaning will shield individuals from the negative psychological consequences associated with adversity, and investigated whether spiritual meaning can buffer the effect of disaster-related resource loss on posttraumatic stress.