The creativity-spirituality construct and its role in transformative coping.
The present study examines whether and to what extent creativity and spirituality are used in coping in a cross-cultural and cross-denominational student sample of 610 participants. Two new theory-based instruments, displaying good internal consistency and satisfactory levels of content-, and constr...
| Published in: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 16; no. 10; pp. 979 - 991 |
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