Year: 2013
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Studies on religious coping often focus on major life stress. The present study\nproposes to show that religion, measured by church attendance and prayer use, would be an\neffective coping strategy in dealing with daily stress levels that would include both major and\nminor stressors. Optimism, self-efficacy and life satisfaction were also analysed in relation to\nreligion. A convenience sample of 116 participants completed questionnaires consisting of\ndemographic information including church attendance and prayer use along with scales on\nperceived stress, general self-efficacy, optimism, coping dimensions and life satisfaction. The\nresults showed that religion, church attendance and prayer combined and prayer individually,\nwas not significantly related to stress indicating that religion is not an effective coping\nmethod for daily stress
Source: eSource (Dublin Business School)
Author: Kea Beckham
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1506856071