Preference for Religious Coping Strategies and Passive versus Active Coping Styles among Seniors Exhibiting Aggressive Behaviors

Abstract

This article is theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part presents issues related to experiencing stress (including ways of coping with experienced problems) and the relationships between preference for various coping strategies and human behavior. The empirical part presents the results of research on the relationship between the frequency of seniors (n = 329) using 13 different ways to deal with experienced difficulties (including the strategy of turning to religion/religious coping) and 11 categories of aggressive behavior (retaliation tendencies, self-destructive tendencies, aggression control disorders, displaced aggression, unconscious aggressive tendencies, indirect aggression, instrumental aggression, self-hostility, physical aggression towards the environment, hostility towards the environment, and reactive aggression). The last part is devoted to a discussion on the obtained research results and the practical implications of using the strategy of turning to religion/religious coping in difficult situations as a factor protecting the elderly from aggressive behavior.

Correlation between medical coping style and mindfulness level of hospitalized elderly

“…This study's results exhibited that the hospitalized elderly with religious beliefs had a higher mindfulness level than those without religious beliefs (P < 0.05). The reason may be that the internal mechanism of religion helps alleviates the depression of the elderly due to the decline of physical function [35] and disease and eliminates their fear and anxiety in the face of disease and death threats with the aid of religion's ideal world [36]. Therefore, hospitalized elderly people with religious beliefs have higher mindfulness levels.…”

Manajemen Stres pada Lansia dengan Hipertensi: Scoping Review

“…Strategi yang terdiri dari memulai tindakan penghindaran), dan (4) meluncurkan proses intrapsikis ditujukan pada regulasi emosional, terutama mekanisme pertahanan (strategi pasif yang ditujukan emosi). Proses coping dapat dianggap efektif jika mengarah pada solusi yang konstruktif untuk masalah dan pada saat yang sama memiliki emosi yang positif (Niewiadomska & Szot, 2021).…”

“…Karakteristik lansia hipertensi yang berhubungan dengan kesehatan mental pada lansia adalah usia, tingkat pendidikan, status ekonomi, dan status perkawinan. Perubahan kehidupan lansia terkait usia dan status perkawinan seringkali menimbulkan stres psikologis, sedangkan status ekonomi dan tingkat pendidikan mempengaruhi kemampuan koping lansia (Niewiadomska & Szot, 2021).…”

“…Skala avoidance behaviours terdiri dari 6 strategi: denial, behavioural disengagement, humour, mental disengagement, alcohol and drug use, dan acceptance (Janiszewska et al, 2020). (2) Mini-COPE atau Brief COPE terdiri dari 28 pernyataan yang terbagi menjadi 14 kategori koping stres: active coping, planning, positive reaming, acceptance, sense of humor, turning to religion, mencari dukungan emosional, mencari dukungan instrumental, distrasi mandiri, penolakan, ventilasi, penggunaan zat, pelepasan perilaku, dan menyalahkan diri sendiri, masing masing strategi koping terdiri dari 2 pertanyaan (Niewiadomska & Szot, 2021;Vannini et al, 2021). Nilai konsistensi internal Cronbach's alpha untuk Brief COPE adalah 0,84 (Guan et al, 2020;Janghel & Shrivastav, 2017).…”