2023, Vol.31, No.2

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1739-0745 / eISSN : 2799-6530
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jocag

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structural relationship between life event stress, psychological burnout, invasive rumination, and mental health problems in missionaries. This study was conducted on 317 Korean missionaries who are currently living in the mission field and carrying out their ministry among Korean missionaries sent by mission organizations. For this study, the collected data was statistically processed through SPSS 25.0, and AMOS 21.0 was used to verify the research model, and all statistical significance levels were set to 5% or less. The results of this study are as follows. First, life event stress appeared to have an positive effect on psychological burnout, invasive rumination, and mental health problems. Second, psychological burnout and invasive rumination had an positive effect on mental health problems. Third, life event stress has an positive effect on mental health problems. Fourth, life event stress has a direct effect (B=.278, p<.001) and an indirect effect (B=.134, p<.001) through the path of psychological burnout and invasive rumination, and has sequential mediating effects on mental health problems. The results of this study showed that missionary life event stress not only directly increased mental health problems, but also increased mental health problems through psychological burnout and invasive rumination.

The purpose of this study is to examine how parent-child relationship can affect attachment to God from the relationship between David and Absalom. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted to examine Absalom's attachment experience with his father from both the perspective of attachment theory and its portrayal in the Bible. Based on this examination, Christian counseling proposal was suggested. In the attachment theory, the internal working model refers specifically to the representational system of the self in relation to others. Analyzing the biblical account, it is evident that David was characterized as "a father who turned away from pain and did not respond," "a father who did not discipline," and "a father who did not express love." According to Kirkpatrick's theory of attachment to God(2005), which states that attachment to one's father influences one's attachment to God, Absalom was not able to form a sufficiently secure attachment to God due to his relationship with David. This is evident because Absalom did not seek God in the moment of crisis nor expressed his distress to God. Therefore the implication of this study is to suggest necessary Christian counseling intervention methods for Christian parents and children to not have a distorted image of God and to be able to form a stable attachment to God.

As the Republic of Korea entered a super-aging society and the elderly population increased, the question of how to prepare for death well became one of the main tasks of old age. Currently, death preparation education for Christians and the general public is similarly conducted under the same name of well-dying. This study proposes the name 'biblical well-dying', which has a Christian identity distinct from 'well-dying'. Well-dying is to prepare for the outcome of life, a good death, in which human subjectivity drives life and protects human dignity. Biblical well-dying is when a Christian looks at eternal life and lives by expressing the sovereignty of Christ only according to the words of the Bible. Biblical well-dying education should take the method of directly exhorting the Word, as Jay. E. Adams insisted in nouthetic confrontation. The content of the biblical well-dying program should include human life and death, eternal life, heaven and hell, attitudes toward death, and sanctified life. Through the program, participants in the biblical well-dying program distinguish God's will and move on to a sanctified life that does their best in spiritual battles. This refers to the attitude of Christians in life that is renewed by words, modeled after Christ, rejoices, appreciates, and wins.