How Religious Coping is Used Relative to Other Coping Strategies Depends on the Individual's Level of Religiosity and Spirituality
How Religious Coping is Used Relative to Other Coping Strategies Depends on the Individual's Level of Religiosity and Spirituality
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DOI：
10.1007/s10943-010-9416-x
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Billington, Rex
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作者：
Kraegeloh, Christian U.;Chai, Penny Pei Minn;Billington, Rex
从实证研究的宗教信仰和灵性的作用，在处理压力的结果往往是不一致的，本研究调查宗教信仰和灵性的水平是否与宗教应对相对于其他应对策略的使用方式。616名大学本科生的样本完成了简明科普（Carver in Int J Behav Med 4：92-100，1997）问卷，并被分为宗教和灵性水平较低和较高的参与者组，如通过WHOQOL-SRPB（WHOQOL-SRPB Group in Soc Sci Med 62：1486-1497，2006）仪器测量的。对于较低水平的参与者，宗教应对往往与适应不良或回避的应对策略，与较高水平的参与者相比，宗教应对与以问题为中心的应对更密切相关，这也得到了多组验证性因素分析的支持。因此，本研究的结果表明，调查宗教应对的作用需要更复杂的方法，而不是试图将其分配给一个更高阶的因素，如问题或情绪为重点的应对，和以前的研究报告的宗教应对的功能的结果的变异性可能部分是由于在宗教和灵性样本的变异性。
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.