Faith leaders who are working to promote justice and healing in Colombia might confront stressful circumstances that challenge their spiritual meaning systems and limit ministry-related quality of life. However, whether focusing on domestic or international samples, research has not examined potential effects of spiritual struggles on ministry-related quality of life. In total, 166 faith leaders who were serving in Christian churches and organizations in Colombia completed a Spanish version of Exline, Pargament, Grubbs, and Yali’s (2014) Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale along with assessments of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) symptomatology. The relative frequencies of different types of spiritual struggles in the sample were as follows: divine = 5.4%, morality = 29.9%, ultimate meaning = 18%, interpersonal = 18%, and doubting = 16.2%. Bivariate results revealed that severity of each of these struggles was concurrently linked with more mental health symptomatology as well as less compassion satisfaction and greater secondary traumatic stress in relation to ministry-related experiences. In addition, when accounting for symptom severity of PTSD and MDD, structural equation modeling results revealed that participants who were experiencing greater moral struggles were particularly vulnerable for struggling in their ministry role at the time of this study. These findings support the need for more research on this topic as well as the possible development of strategies for addressing the emotional, spiritual, and educational needs of faith leaders in Colombia and other nations who are serving persons in contexts of trauma, loss, and displacement.

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哥伦比亚信仰领袖之间的精神斗争和与事工相关的生活质量。

在哥伦比亚致力于促进正义和治愈的信仰领袖可能会面临压力环境，挑战他们的精神意义系统并限制与事工相关的生活质量。然而，无论是关注国内还是国际样本，研究都没有研究精神斗争对与事工相关的生活质量的潜在影响。总共有 166 名在哥伦比亚基督教教堂和组织中服务的信仰领袖完成了 Exline、Pargament、Grubbs 和 Yali (2014) 宗教和精神斗争量表的西班牙语版本以及对创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 和重度抑郁症的评估障碍（MDD）症状。样本中不同类型精神斗争的相对频率如下：神圣=5.4%，道德=29.9%，终极意义=18%，人际关系 = 18%，怀疑 = 16.2%。双变量结果显示，这些挣扎中的每一个的严重程度同时与更多的心理健康症状、更少的同情心满意度和与事工相关的经历相关的更大的继发性创伤压力有关。此外，在考虑 PTSD 和 MDD 的症状严重程度时，结构方程模型结果显示，在本研究进行时，正在经历更大道德斗争的参与者特别容易在他们的事工角色中挣扎。这些调查结果支持对这一主题进行更多研究的必要性，以及可能制定战略来解决哥伦比亚和其他国家的信仰领袖的情感、精神和教育需求，他们正在为遭受创伤、失落、