Life Events and Negative Religious Coping

Abstract

Recently, insufficiency of secular coping methods has drawn the attention of researchers towards religious coping methods. While the parts about theory and model cover an important place in the literature, experimental studies are rapidly going on. Although religious coping was initially interpreted as positive, experimental studies reveal that it also has negative forms. The purpose of this study, in which qualitative research methods were used, is to define the components of religious coping. Semi structured interview was used among 42 participants, 9 war veterans from Association of Turkish Disabled War Veterans, Martyrs, their Widows and Orphans Ankara Branch, and 9 relatives of martyrs from the Association of Martyrs' Families Ankara Branch, totaling 60 volunteer participants between the ages 25 and 65 with snowball sampling method. It was discovered that 29 of the participants used negative religious coping and the participants who only used negative religious coping were studied in this research. Upon recording the interviews with the aid of a recorder, the researched typed the script of the interviews. The qualitative analysis of the collected data was done in MAXODA 11 computer program.

Investigating the Correlation Between Life Satisfaction and Religious Attitudes of Families With Disabled Children and Other Factors Affecting: Mixed Study

“…Personal Information Form: This form includes the information about demographic characteristics (age, gender, educational level, working status, income level, information about their children) and religious thoughts of caregivers and it is composed of 16 questions (Kara, 2008;Eryücel, 2013).…”

“…They have stated that the religious methods in coping with problems are much greater than non-religious coping methods. They highlight the fact that religion is in a unique structure that is different from other coping styles and gives far better results than expected in reaching health (Eryücel, 2013). While there is little evidence to suggest that religious orientation influences the acceptance or rejection of persons with a disability, there are data showing that religious belief and practice plays an important and positive role in the lives of parents and caregivers of people with a disability, and in the health and well-being of individuals generally (Selway and Ashman 1998).…”