The paper presents the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the Religious Coping Questionnaire (the RCOPE) by Pargament et al. (2000) for Polish adolescents. The work was driven by the necessity to obtain a structural and measurement equivalence between the American and Polish versions of the instrument. The Polish version was created at the Department of Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. The exploratory factor analysis with the Oblimin oblique rotation was carried out. The principal components method was used as an extraction method of common factors. The results provided input for constructing the scales. The Adolescent Religious Coping Questionnaire consists of 105 items, grouped in 16 scales, which reflects positive and negative religious coping strategies.

Thus, the use of constructive ways of coping with stress - based on seeking support, personal activity in coping with problems and drawing conclusions from wrong life decisions - is related to higher level of quality of life.

The aim of the presented research was to analyze differences in religious strategies of coping with stress in a group of prison inmates characterized by different levels of the sense of quality of life—general, psychophysical, psychosocial, personal, and metaphysical. The participants were 390 males, aged 19–68 years, serving sentences in prisons in Poland. The measures used were the Sense of Quality of Life Questionnaire by M. Straś-Romanowska and K. I. Pargament’s RCOPE Questionnaire. As expected, individuals with a high sense of quality of life—both general and pertaining to specific dimensions—more often chose positive religious strategies, whereas participants with a low sense of quality of life more often chose negative strategies. The exception was the metaphysical aspect of the quality of life: individuals with a high intensity of this dimension more often chose some of the positive as well as negative religious strategies.

Background: The aim of the study was to analyze the determinants of prison inmates’ quality of life (QoL). Methods: 390 men imprisoned in penitentiary institutions were assessed. Data were collected by means of the Sense of Quality of Life Questionnaire (SQLQ), general self-efficacy scale (GSES), resilience assessment scale (RAS-25), social support scale (SSS), intensity of religious attitude scale (IRA), SPI/TPI, and COPE Inventory, measures that have high validity and reliability. All models were specified in a path analysis using Mplus version 8.2. Results: The positive correlates of QoL are: self-efficacy, social support, intensity of religious attitude, trait and state depression, resilience, and the following coping strategies, which are at the same time mediators between the variables mentioned above and QoL: behavioral disengagement, turning to religion, planning, and seeking social support for instrumental reasons. Conclusions: In penitentiary practice, attention should be devoted to depressive individuals, and support should be provided to them in the first place because depressiveness is the strongest negative correlate of important aspects of prisoners’ QoL. All the remaining significant factors, namely: self-efficacy, social support, intensity of religious attitude, and the following coping strategies: turning to religion, planning, and seeking social support for instrumental reasons, should be taken into account in rehabilitation programs.

Cel Celem podjętych badań było ustalenie mediacyjnej roli prężności psychicznej w relacji między martwieniem się a strategiami radzenia sobie ze stresem u młodzieży. Metoda Przebadano 404 osoby w wieku 15‒20 lat (M = 18,23; SD = 1,29). Do oceny martwienia się wykorzystano Kwestionariusz martwienia się (PSWQ-C) Chorpity, do pomiaru prężności psychicznej Skalę pomiaru prężności (SPP-18) Ogińskiej-Bulik i Juczyńskiego, a radzenie sobie ze stresem oceniono za pomocą skali „Jak sobie radzisz?” (JSR) Juczyńskiego i  Ogińskiej-Bulik. Wyniki Uzyskane wyniki wskazują, że prężność jest istotnym mediatorem w relacji między martwieniem się a strategiami radzenia sobie ze stresem, przy czym w odniesieniu do strategii Aktywnego radzenia sobie i Poszukiwania wsparcia społecznego mediacja ma charakter supresji, natomiast w relacji ze strategią Koncentracji na emocjach występuje mediacja częściowa. Konkluzja Prężność psychiczna mediuje zależność między martwieniem się a radzeniem sobie ze stresem, przy czym charakter tej mediacji jest złożony i zróżnicowany w odniesieniu do różnych strategii zaradczych.