The Role of Social Supports, Spirituality, Religiousness, Life Meaning and Affiliation with 12-Step Fellowships in Quality of Life Satisfaction Among Individuals in Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems

The Role of Social Supports, Spirituality, Religiousness, Life Meaning and Affiliation with 12-Step Fellowships in Quality of Life Satisfaction Among Individuals in Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems is a work by Alexandre B. Laudet (2006).

Core claims

• Laudet and colleagues demonstrate that spirituality and life meaning are independent predictors of quality of life in recovery, contributing to well-being beyond what social support, 12-step affiliation, and abstinence duration alone can explain.
• The paper establishes that recovery is not merely the absence of substance use but a multidimensional process in which spiritual development and meaning-making play structurally necessary roles — findings that challenge purely biomedical models of addiction treatment.
• By showing that spirituality and meaning predict quality of life even when controlling for length of sobriety, the study suggests that the spiritual dimension of recovery is not an epiphenomenon of sustained abstinence but an independent contributor to human flourishing.

Related questions

• Does the independent contribution of spirituality to recovery quality of life support Jung’s original claim to Bill Wilson that the alcoholic’s craving is a spiritual thirst — and does it suggest that treatments addressing only the biomedical dimension of addiction leave the deepest wound untreated?
• How does the distinction between religiousness and spirituality in the paper relate to the depth psychological distinction between institutional religion and personal encounter with the numinous — and which of these predicts recovery outcomes more strongly?

See also

• Library page: /library/recovery/laudet-social-supports-spirituality-recovery/

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