Anna C Culmann, Andreas M Baranowski, Julia-K Matthias, Simone C Tüttenberg, Wilfried Belschner, Yesim Erim, Eva Morawa, Petra Beschoner, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Christian Albus, Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen, Martin Reuter, Franziska Geiser
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic had serious impact on the well-being of health care workers and highlighted the need for resources to help hospital staff to cope with psychologically negative consequences. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potentially protective effect of spirituality, as measured by the construct of transpersonal trust, against anxiety in physicians and in hospital pastoral care workers. In addition, transpersonal trust was compared to the effects of other potential resources, namely sense of coherence, optimism, and resilience...
2024: Frontiers in Psychiatry