Rediscovering Models of Sabbath Keeping: Implications for Psychological Well-Being
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2004
Abstract
There is a growing interest in Sabbath keeping in America as a counterbalance to our culture's consumerism, exhaustion, and loss of segmentation between work and other life arenas. We describe three models of Sabbath keeping, their implications for well-being, their inherent challenges and a program of research to investigate the proposed relationships. The models are (a) Life Segmentation, in which people actively segment their lives to create respite; (b) Prescribed Meaning, in which people prescribe positive and religious meaning to life segmentations; and (c) Integrated Sabbath, in which Sabbath keeping is celebrated as an integrated belief system of daily rest, reflection and relationship development.
Recommended Citation
Diddams, Margaret; Klein Surdyk, Lisa; and Daniels, Denise, "Rediscovering Models of Sabbath Keeping: Implications for Psychological Well-Being" (2004). SPU Works. 48.
https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/works/48