Unraveling The Impact Of Mental Health Dispositions On Clergy Congregational Support Perceptions In The United States.

This research was conducted to determine the effect of mental health outcomes and socioeconomic disposition on clergy congregational support perceptions in the United States, using a representative 1500 sample survey data obtained from the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL), and analyzed with Descriptive statistics, and Econometric analyticals. The analyses on relationship between congregational support perceptions among clergies and their mental health outcomes showed that majorities are aged between about 56-65 years, do not undergo depression, not worried, and also have interest or pleasure in doing things, earns about $41000–$80999 annually, engaged in daily counseling, and rarely experience feelings of leaving congregational work to do something that does not involve religious work (LVRELWRK), while those involved in collaborative clergy engagements; Perceived to be receiving very much congregational care relative to their counterparts. Furthermore, econometric analyses result of the effect of clergy Mental Health outcomes- socioeconomic disposition on Congregational Support Perceptions intensity revealed that the model was a statistically good fit for the analyses at 1% probability significance level, showing that both clergy bothered feelings, and having little interest or pleasure in doing things (Lack of Interest), and the feelings of leaving congregational work to do something that does not involve religious work (LVRELWRK) had negative effect on clergy Congregational Support perceptions, while regular happy feelings, frequency of counselling, and increasing age had positive effects on clergy Congregational Support perceptions. The empirical findings from this study hereby provides a strong basis to validate or reject prior set theoretical conjectures.