The Relationship Between Religion and Religious Coping: Religious Coping as a Moderator Between Religion and Adjustment

This study examined the relationship between and among religion, religious coping, and positive/negative psychological adjustment and investigated whether the four religious coping styles of Self-Directing, Deferring, Collaborative, and Turning to Religion would significantly moderate the relationsh...

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Published in:Journal of religion and health 2009-12, Vol.48 (4), p.454-467
Main Authors: Ross, Keisha, Handal, Paul J., Clark, Eddie M., Wal, Jillon S. Vander
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult
Aging
Clinical Psychology
Emotional adjustment
Female
Grief
Humans
Islam
Judaism
Life Change Events
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Multilevel models
On the Boundaries of Religion, Psychology and Medicine: Studies in the Social, Behavioral and Medical Sciences
Original Paper
Personal Satisfaction
Personality Inventory
Problem solving
Psychology
Psychology of religion
Public Health
Religion
Religion and Psychology
Religiosity
Religious Studies
Self Efficacy
Spiritual belief systems
Spirituality
Students - psychology
Young Adult
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Summary:This study examined the relationship between and among religion, religious coping, and positive/negative psychological adjustment and investigated whether the four religious coping styles of Self-Directing, Deferring, Collaborative, and Turning to Religion would significantly moderate the relationship between religion and psychological adjustment. Each of the four religious coping measures were significant moderators between religion and positive and negative adjustment. However, the high self-directing and high religion group showed opposite results from the other three coping styles, in that they were the most maladjusted and least satisfied with life compared to the other three integration and religious coping groups. The participants high on religion and high deferring, high collaborative, and high turning to religion groups were less maladjusted and more satisfied than the other three groups in each of these religious coping styles.
ISSN:0022-4197
1573-6571
DOI:10.1007/s10943-008-9199-5