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A Study on the Structural Relationship between Life Event Stress, Psychological Burnout, Invasive Ruminating and Mental Health Problems of Missionaries

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2023, 31(2), pp.5-39
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2023.31.2.5
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : May 30, 2023
  • Accepted : July 7, 2023
  • Published : July 30, 2023

Park, Sun-hee 1 Oh, Yoon Sun 2

1마음과생각심리상담센터
2한국성서대학교

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ABSTRACT

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.

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