Türkiye’de Yapılan ‘Dinî Başa Çıkma’ Konulu Araştırmalar Hakkında Bir Değerlendirme

Abstract

This research deals with the studies of "Religious coping", which were carried out in Turkey between 2001-2019. Coping can be defined as a cognitive and behavioral effort to diminish the chaos and the psychological pressure caused by stressful situations. People often confront unpleasant event and situations disturbing them psychologically and physiologically. Every person wants to overcome this kind of nuisances in order to protect his/her psychological and physiological health. In order to manage these unpleasant situations, they employ mainly two strategies called problem-focused and emotion-focused strategy. Those who use the first strategy try to solve the problem by simply focusing on the problem itself while those who use the second strategy intend to get rid of the problem by altering the way of their perception of the problem. In this sense, religion offers the problemfocused strategy to give courage and make people see life more worthwhile. On the other hand, it offers the emotion-focused strategy so that people bare, be patient and give meaning to those unpleasant events. The purpose of this research is to examine the studies related to religious coping strategies in terms of variables, scales employed and sample groups and to determine the tendencies through descriptive analysis. In this regard, the quality and quantity of the studies carried out between 2001-2019 in Turkey are also to be found out. Although the religious coping strategies had been used since early times, it was not until the end of the 20th century that "the religious coping" was defined and examined scientifically. Pargament, one of the chief pioneers, developed the very first scales and conducted studies using them. The first studies in Turkey started in 2001 after these scales were translated into Turkish and their validity and reliability were tested. Since then, 89 studies, 76 of which are original and 13 of which are based on a dissertation, have been performed. 35 of the original studies are M.A thesis, 11 of them PhD, 27 essays, 3 books and book chapters. In one of these studies, a prayer inventory was used, in the other one a scale development was performed and four of them are done theoretically. 70 studies are classified as a field study. Except for the 2 studies which do not contain any information regarding the scale used, 21 studies were conducted through interviews, 47 studies used a religious coping scale. One of these scales consisting of 26 items was used by two researchers in their own studies who developed this scale in 2011 in Diyarbakır. The first of the four scales developed by adapting the Pargament's scales to Turkish was categorised by Halil Ekşi as negative and İntihal Taraması/Plagiarism Detection: Bu makale intihal taramasından geçirildi/This paper was checked for plagiarism Geliş/

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