Vol. 2 No. 1, April 2025

Psychosocial Factors Determining Clergy’s Wellness

Konwea, Patience Escohe & Olubamise, Olufemi Moses

Abstract

The wellness of clergy is critical for their health and their ability to fulfill demanding roles as spiritual leaders, counselors, and community influencers. This paper explores the psychosocial factors influencing the wellness of clergy, focusing on the interplay of emotional, social, and occupational dimensions. Psychosocial factors, which are the combination of psychological and social factors, are recognized to be critical in both the causation and the prevention of disease and in the promotion of health. Key Psychosocial determinants such as stress, workload, burnout, income, clergy’s family, and social support were examined. It was recommended that more of tentmakers should be recruited to assist in daily activities, while committed church workers should be given prominent roles to play in the church to cut on the burnout experienced by the clergy due to numerous activities and responsibilities demanding for their attentions, all after which the management of the communion must have considered increasing the clergy’s salary significantly.

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