Article: Leisure-Spiritual Coping: A Model for Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Services

Abstract

This paper synthesizes theory and research findings on leisure, stress, and spiritual coping into a conceptual model of leisure-spiritual coping. Spiritual coping refers to the ways that people receive help from spiritual resources (e.g., higher power, spiritual practices, faith c ommunity) during periods of life stress, whereas leisure-spiritual coping is spiritual coping that takes place within the context of an individual's leisure. The model takes into account spiritual appraisals (e.g., attribution), person factors (e.g., religious doctrines, religious orientation), leisure-spiritual coping behaviours (e.g., sacrilization, grounding, contemplative leisure, time and space, being ...

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