Advance in the Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping

Strategies for recreating normal life: Iranian coronary heart disease patients' perspectives on coping strategies

“…Through religious belief, patients try to gain intimacy, comfort and control over their condition and confront their illness (Klaassen et al . ). This leads to accepting responsibility for self‐care and consideration of a healthy lifestyle (Cummings & Pargament ) for achieving psychophysical well‐being and better social interactions (Bonet ).…”

“…To obtain a complete and detailed description of CHD patients' coping strategies, as well as to build a theoretical framework that could provide hypotheses to be further tested through quantitative approaches (Klaassen et al . ), a qualitative study was conducted.…”

“…However, these studies did not describe in detail the different strategies patients with CHD used to cope with their situations. To obtain a complete and detailed description of CHD patients' coping strategies, as well as to build a theoretical framework that could provide hypotheses to be further tested through quantitative approaches (Klaassen et al 2006), a qualitative study was conducted.…”

Greek-Cypriot Refugees’ Welfare a Third of a Century Following their Expatriation: Implications for Local and International Policy

“…For example, it highlights that social service providers should not only try to build on the personal strengths of perseverance and hard work ethic (e.g., Coughlan & Manley-Owens, 2006;Loizos, & Constantinou, 2007;Tilbury,2006;Zetter, 1992) and relational strengths of support from friends, acquaintances, and family members of refugees (e.g., Hoge, Austin, & Pollack, 2007;Peddle, 2007;Tumala-Nara, 2007), as they help navigate them through life-altering crises. Additional assets that could be expanded on are personal spirituality and/or participation in religious institutions (e.g., Ai, Tice, Huang, & Ishisaka, 2005;Chaaya, Sibai, Fayad, & El-Roueiheb, 2007;Delgado-Gaitan, 1994;Fitzgerald, 2007;Gonzalez, 2002;Grigoleit, 2006;Klaassen, McDonald, & James, 2006) and local business backing (e.g., Coughlan & Manley-Owens, 2006;Simich, Beiser, Stewart, & Mwakarimba, 2005).…”

Factors influencing dietary fat intake among black emerging adults

“…Since perceived stress scores were on average low among this sample, perhaps religious commitment served as a coping skill, which may have influenced the low scores. Positive religious coping skills have been associated with positive psychological adjustment to stress (Ano & Vasconcelles, 2005;Klaassen, McDonald, & James, 2006), and high religious coping has been reported among Black adults (Chatters, Taylor, Jackson, & Lincoln, 2008). In a qualitative study conducted by Horton (2013a) among emerging adults, participants discussed how they used religion to cope with stress.…”