OBJECTIVES To examine patient preferences for incorporating religion and/or spirituality into therapy for anxiety or depression and examine the relations between patient preferences and religious and spiritual coping styles, beliefs and behaviors. METHOD Participants (66 adults, 55 years or older, from earlier studies of cognitive-behavioral therapy for late-life anxiety and/or depression in ...

This article extends the findings from the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH II) program, a multisite randomized clinical trial of a multicomponent psychosocial intervention, to improve the well-being of informal caregivers (CGs) of persons with dementia. We used residual change scores and stepwise hierarchical regression analyses to explore separately in 3 racial ethn...

Issues related to psychological recovery following coronary bypass surgeries (CABG) have emerged in recent years. Other research has shown the effects of spiritual or religious activities on health and aging. However, little is known about the relationship of spiritual coping, including religious coping, to post-CABG adjustment. This study addressed multifactorial determinants of postoperative ...

The association between religiousness and depressive symptoms was examined with meta-analytic methods across 147 independent investigations (N = 98,975). Across all studies, the correlation between religiousness and depressive symptoms was -.096, indicating that greater religiousness is mildly associated with fewer symptoms. The results were not moderated by gender, age, or ethnicity, but the r...

Bu çalışmanın amacı dinî başa çıkma, sosyal medya bağımlılığı ve yalnızlık arasındaki ilişkilerin incelenmesidir. Araştırmada betimsel istatistiklerin yanı sıra demografik değişkenlere göre değişkenlerindeki farklılaşmalar ele alınmıştır. Dinî olumlu çıkma olumsuz olarak iki boyutta incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın örneklemi 440 kişiden oluşmaktadır. Katılımcıların 152’si (%34,5) erkek, 288’i (%65,5) ...

The current study primarily aimed at investigating religious coping styles' effect on teachers’ perceived stress. This article also enlightened the difference in scores of male and female educators use positive styles. Correlational design was employed data (N=350) taken through convenience sampling comprising both males (n=168) females (n=182) around Malakand division Khyber Phuktoonkhwa (KP),...

The objective of this study was to verify how the coping strategies, applied to health problems of the elderly, are related to the levels of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) in a cluster sample of 381 elderly people with an average age of 71.50 years (SD = 8.0), mostly female (73.4 %). The following instruments were used: Mini-Mental State Examination, Problem Coping Mode Scale, Satisfaction with Li...

Abstract This article presents conceptual results from the Interfaculty Research Cooperation “Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies” at University of Bern. Since 2018, researchers various academic disciplines—theology, psychology, law, religious studies, social anthropology, jewish islamic political sciences, history, communication philosophy, gender studies german studies—have been compara...