RT Article
T1 How Religious Coping is Used Relative to Other Coping Strategies Depends on the Individual's Level of Religiosity and Spirituality
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 51
IS 4
SP 1137
OP 1151
A1 Krägeloh, Christian U.
A1 Billington, Rex
A1 Chai, Penny Pei Minn
A1 Shepherd, Daniel
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1668757982
AB Results from empirical studies on the role of religiosity and spirituality in dealing with stress are frequently at odds, and the present study investigated whether level of religiosity and spirituality is related to the way in which religious coping is used relative to other coping strategies. A sample of 616 university undergraduate students completed the Brief COPE (Carver in Int J Behav Med 4:92-100, 1997) questionnaire and was classified into groups of participants with lower and higher levels of religiosity and spirituality, as measured by the WHOQOL-SRPB (WHOQOL-SRPB Group in Soc Sci Med 62:1486-1497, 2006) instrument. For participants with lower levels, religious coping tended to be associated with maladaptive or avoidant coping strategies, compared to participants with higher levels, where religious coping was more closely related to problem-focused coping, which was also supported by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. The results of the present study thus illustrate that investigating the role of religious coping requires more complex approaches than attempting to assign it to one higher order factor, such as problem- or emotion-focused coping, and that the variability of findings reported by previous studies on the function of religious coping may partly be due to variability in religiosity and spirituality across samples.
K1 Brief COPE
K1 coping strategies
K1 Religiosity
K1 Religious Coping
K1 Spirituality
K1 WHOQOL-SRPB
DO 10.1007/s10943-010-9416-x