Natural disasters can disrupt and challenge survivors’ core belief systems, leading to negative health consequences. People often rely on religion/spirituality to help them cope and make meaning, but to date very few studies have specifically focused on exploring spiritually oriented expressive writing interventions with natural disaster survivors. Therefore, the current longitudinal, mixed-methods study utilized an experimental design with random assignment of 132 survivors of the 2016 Louisiana flooding. Quantitative measures were completed before and after the writing intervention, then at 1-month and 6-month follow-up time points. Results indicated that the spiritually oriented intervention was effective in promoting meaning in life but not life satisfaction. Survivors with lower preintervention positive attitudes toward God evidenced the strongest growth over time regarding meaning in life. Qualitative analyses, using a directed content analysis approach, revealed six themes in the experimental group’s written responses that expanded previous research. Finally, we discuss implications for counseling and future research.

自然灾害会破坏和挑战幸存者的核心信仰体系，从而给健康带来负面影响。人们通常依靠宗教/精神来帮助他们应对和表达意义，但是迄今为止，很少有研究专门针对自然灾害幸存者探索以精神为导向的表现主义写作干预措施。因此，当前的纵向混合方法研究采用了一项实验设计，随机分配了2016年路易斯安那水灾的132名幸存者。在写作干预之前和之后，然后在1个月和6个月的随访时间点完成了量化措施。结果表明，以精神为导向的干预有效地提高了生活的意义，但对提高生活满意度却没有效果。干预前对上帝持较低积极态度的幸存者证明了生命意义上的成长最强劲。使用定向内容分析方法进行的定性分析揭示了实验组书面回答中的六个主题，这些主题扩展了以前的研究。最后，我们讨论了对咨询和未来研究的意义。